wolf_garcia
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| Preamps can color sound considerably. Surprising? Those engineers operating the studio gear are putting that sacred "absolute sound" through miles of wires, pan pots, addled brains, unclean tape heads, unclean bald heads, digital manipulation, badly tuned pianos, and personal tastes just like the... | |
| Why does rock concert sound suck? I can accept people commenting on bad sound as hey, people pay for a good experience and they should have one whether it’s an audience that behaves themselves (note that classical concert attendees are very touchy about audience jerkwads, although... | |
| Why does rock concert sound suck? Blaming Class D phased array speakers is silly...a good sound mixer can make nearly anything work well. Also, now that in-ear monitors are nearly universally adopted, the on stage levels can be anything. A little history: Piles of Altec A7s or sim... | |
| Why does rock concert sound suck? I’m a decades long pro musician (basically retired now) and small venue live sound mixer. Most people have absolutely no idea how modern sound systems work, including claims of "electronic manipulation." Huh? You mean EQ? The mains mixer has all t... | |
| Less Is Really More - Schiit's New Yggdrasil DAC - Less Is More I really don’t remember how long, if at all, it took to as you say, "settle in,’’ as it just seemed great sounding immediately...expectation bias maybe...in any case it does sound amazingly good. My only experience with another DAC is a classic (2... | |
| Try This With Your SS Amp I've always said that tubes are simply more interesting in pretty much every way, although I did buy a Pass XA-25 this year. Likely the most boring looking amp there is (especially compared to other Pass Labs meter festooned monsters) but it's the... | |
| Less Is Really More - Schiit's New Yggdrasil DAC - Less Is More My Bifrost 2 update actually didn’t take weeks...about a week maybe, and man...the Bifrost was already an excellent DAC, but now it’s sort of amazingly good. | |
| Roger Waters and Graham Nash on The Band. Richie Hayward was one of the most amazing drummers I've ever seen...an astonishing talent. | |
| Personality Type? I've had many situations where drummers, keyboard players, or others didn't have the listening skills required to respond to the producer. Drummers hitting the accelerator (or anybody upping the intensity) by pounding on a ride cymbal during solos... | |
| Roger Waters and Graham Nash on The Band. I was a young working musician when Big Pink arrived and pretty much everybody I knew in the biz was stunned. I'd seen "Bob Dylan and the Hawks" live and was blown away as a Dylan fan...just miles ahead of any other live band in 1966. Saw the Band... | |
| Bragging rights..... My system is a carefully assembled rack of amazingly great sounding items that are absolutely no trouble to use, and it will last me well into the so called "future fi" world. If I were to buy a vacation house or somehow needed another complete ri... | |
| Personality Type? I've been a musician for many years...guitar/singer, frontman...and any drummer who considers himself part of the "background" in a band likely isn't very good...I certainly wouldn't play with him (or her). | |
| Cable design is a lot like creating a pizza A pizza that adds and subtracts nothing to your esthetic experience...hmm...alert the metaphor police immediately. | |
| My Lifelong Quest to Make my Expensive Rig Sound as Good as $500 Headphones Headphones vs. speakers...hmmm...like saying I've never found a car as good as my bicycle. | |
| Schiit Audio I'm an "original" Freya owner and the thing is amazingly good...I also have a couple of Magni 3s, an original Loki, and a Bifrost 2 with the 64 bit upgrade, all excellent. I've never had issues communicating with the Schiit heads as I did have iss... |