wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| American Audio I got my Schiit, Klipsch, and Dennis Had goin' on. Surprises even me. | |
| 3 New UBER Decks - Is this Turntable's SwanSong? 🦢 Fremer can chew the fun outta yer gum with unreadable turntable tweaking articles. Makes you wonder why anybody would bother with vinyl, but vinyl is a current unstoppable success anyway (Swan Song? Huh?). Notice Fremer thought the silly Synergist... | |
| why do so many discussions turn contentious? It's "gasbagism," where pretentious "experts" assume everyone thinks they're a genius and they weave anything into the conversation that supports this self obsession that only the truly insecure can display. From injecting whacky politics to yamme... | |
| A turntable that plays all types of music well Weirdly, my Linn/Akito rig will not play polka...just won't... | |
| My Experience With Tekton The OP's lack of punctuation indicates the post must be a poem. | |
| The "Snake Oil" Trope I think the actual widespread use of a product makes up for the nonsensical hyperbole attached to Magic Audio items...if something works, people will find their way to it. Note how much silly audio stuff with imagined technology gets ignored inste... | |
| What do "audiophiles" use to judge equipment? The opinions of pretentious bloviating gasbags on websites. | |
| Does listening to music increase your IQ? The great thing about age is getting to rediscover what you forgot. Also it's true that using your brain creatively (play an instrument, paint, do crossword puzzles...) keeps it working. | |
| Point to Point vs Circuit Board Call me crazy but I think the SOUND of the component is what's important. | |
| New cables - To judge now or after burn in period? The dilemma can be that you like the cables immediately and then they burn in and they SUCK. The only answer when that happens is to get new cables every couple hundred hours... | |
| How many dealers do you use? Not long ago a turntable expert at Goodwin's High End fixed my que lever and tuned up my Linn for surprisingly small bucks. | |
| PowerBall Lottery Winner Go see some live music. | |
| Quality 1 meter RCA Interconnects under $100? Is that Morrow Audio? I use various morrow cables and they're great, and wonder if anyone has EVER paid full list for this stuff? | |
| Bass sensation like a loud car system in home? For relatively small money you can buy used 18" powered pro subs often dumped by a failed "DJ". That should do it. | |
| Any idea which headphones I’d like? I really like Grado cans (and their headphones too) and since I rarely listen to my main system with phones (I do use a simple system with the Grados for bedtime music while reading) I'm fine with the less expensive versions, including the amazing... |