wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| You know you have audiophile system when... An audiophile is anyone willing to bore the crap out of anyone else (i.e. most people) who isn't particularly interested the audio gear/high end sound hobby. | |
| How do you judge audio components and speakers? Coherence. It has to sound good from top to bottom, and it has to be in my listening room where my ears might be...and my listening room is not treated by anything other than normal room items so it sounds like a cool room, not anechoic, dsp synth... | |
| Inexpensive Good Vintage Turntables? Linn Basik...I have one with the Akito arm...superb (especially after putting a Jelco arm cable on it). Hard to find but generally can be inexpensive. | |
| Tekton versus Klipsch My Klipsch Heresy IIIs are amazing...makes me wonder if they imbued the "Capitol Records 75th Anniversary" version with some extra mojo (doubtful), but I tried the Heresy IVs well into break-in and they had upper mid frequency anomalies that irked... | |
| Pass INT-25 better than Wilsenton R8? I use an original version Schiit Freya with a newly acquired Pass XA25...both of 'em are virtually noiseless and sound astonishingly good (best I've heard in a home audio rig, ever...), and this combo is maybe $1,600 less expensive than an INT25. ... | |
| KT150 to KT120..or KT120 to KT150 I'm keeping my Had amp to use when I feel like it...it's a work of art and only uses 4 tubes so I want the amp to think I'm just giving it a well deserved break so as not to hurt its feelings. The Pass amp was bought out of curiosity after reading... | |
| KT150 to KT120..or KT120 to KT150 My Had amp wound up with GL KT66s, and I liked them so much I "panic bought" a back up pair. Great sounding tubes in a great amp...however...I recently bought a new Pass Labs XA25 and none of my tubes work in that amp (you can lay tubes on top of ... | |
| Favorite religious song "Kinda Dumb and a Little Ugly on the Side," Frank Zappa. | |
| Fuse Direction for Pass Labs Amp and Preamp I tested a pile of SR fuses years ago and noted the results here. They’re dangerous (rated wrong at times so they blow, leading to suggestions that you should use a higher rating than the gear called for...wow) and useless nonsense. Some have clai... | |
| When You Buy The Whole Album And Only Like One Song. I'm an old Rock and Roll musician and current live sound mixer, and my band in '69 actually opened a show for Zep (and others, luckily we had good management as my 18 year old self had no idea what I was doing). Met Jimi (got his cassette player w... | |
| Is it ok to stack LPs horizontally? Not just a warping issue but any dust or crap on an LPs surface with be further smashed into the groove. No no no. | |
| Tubes becoming hard to get? At this point this is old news really. I use tube amps and mostly NOS GE 6SN7GTBs (four of them in my preamp, one in my power amp) of which I have plenty, and just recently bought a back-up pair of KT66s (I have a stash of various tubes to last fo... | |
| I wonder what you would think if we scheduled a monthly Zoom Meeting? How about an audiophile Barn Dance...bikini car wash? Or skip the interplay and simply put spy cams in all the participating members sound rooms and see what they're up to at all times. No hair and makeup required. | |
| The Law of Accelerating Returns Room tuning may be something an obsessive/compulsive listener could chase around until they're ready to gloat about it (I think rooms generally can add a sense of realism with only furnishings and regular stuff, unless maybe your room is an abando... | |
| Thermal Distortion your loudspeaker most likely suffers from it. But do you care? Another case of "Something You Never Heard Of That Doesn’t Matter." |