wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| What’s your latest high-end audio purchase? It's a tie between a Bryston Bit-15 power conditioner and a Schiit Bifrost 2 64 bit update card. A bitfest... | |
| Listening after your entire system was powered off cold for a week+ I was gone for a week and when I returned today my system sounded amazing immediately, likely (obviously) because I hadn't heard it for a week. My Pass XA-25 always take an hour or so to sound its best, and I had a new Julian Lage album to enjoy..... | |
| Where did you buy your first audio gear? KLH Model 20 (the one without the tuner)...turntable festooned integrated with great speakers...1970 maybe? | |
| The MoFi Mess and TAS rolling over for them I’ve been reading both of these mags for years and not taking them so seriously as to harsh my entertainment mellow. Who cares really? If you need another Magico rave there ya go! The only thing recently that brought me unbridled happiness and gle... | |
| Please recommend speakers for 45 watt SET amps Klipsch Heresy IIIs (not the newer IVs) with subs...amazingly great sound. | |
| REL users - do any of you use low level for 2 channel? High level is the way to go...gets the sound of the amp, and it's very easy to make REL cables. I use inexpensive Canare "star quad" cable with screw on AQ bananas and "Speakons" (Neutrik...from Liechtenstein!). Easy peezy...the length doesn't mat... | |
| Don’t fight your speakers. If speakers seem to get in the way of my personal standards and divert any attention away from the music, they're outta here. I seem to get bored or curious sometimes, order some new speakers, and send 'em back or sell 'em off...the only way to re... | |
| Tube Recommendations Please Viva tubes...I bet Audio Research charges way too much for not so special tubes because, hey, they can. Viva sells "vetted" tubes at some of the best prices. | |
| Atma-Sphere Class D… Amazing I disagree with Ralph about tube guitar amps...they're not going away anytime soon, if ever. Note that serious pro guitar players generally start with a great tube amp in pretty much every case (exceptions for those who run "into the board" with e... | |
| Disservice: XLR interconnects I prefer XLRs and use them whenever I can (my 2 DACs are XLR out to my Freya preamp with 2 balanced ins...rare for most preamps), and without cables my system would just sit there as a meaningless heap...silent...collecting dust...so yeah, cables ... | |
| Isn’t the forum to post reviews of gear you have experience with? Wow man...2 stupid mistakes in my post...it’s by, not "buy" and I, not "i." I deserve NO respect. | |
| Silver Speaker Cables I use a "bought used" silver sp/dif cable that was originally pricey but obtained el cheapo. It Sounds fabulous (I think). | |
| Isn’t the forum to post reviews of gear you have experience with? Opinions buy others regarding items I use, if positive and possibly adoringly noting how smart and generally wonderful my taste is, are always welcome. Otherwise i don't wanna hear it. | |
| Transients hurting my ears on hifi solid state amps I crave and insist that my rig sounds accurate, coherent, and clear. I recommend a Pass XA-25...smooth as buttah... | |
| I have seen a lot of ideas concerning Cable lifters When you consider cable lifters, also consider the cables INSIDE your speakers as they're constantly being tortured by their proximity to the drivers, about which absolutely nobody cares. Nobody. Regardless of some theories (such as they are) abou... |