wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| McIntosh fuse changeout to make better sound I prefer a "Methode Champenoise" approach to gravitational influences on fuse performance which simply requires giving every fuse (every one...open that lid...get in there) in your system a quarter turn at least once a day. If you don't at least t... | |
| How eclectic is your taste in music? All Mumblecore all the time. | |
| Is Modern Jazz an Oxymoron? Note that modern jazz...whatever it is...is relatively unpopular and always has been, and it's 95% of what I listen to. It rates just below children's music and maybe above polka. Luckily I have managed to find a LOT of "newer" stuff that is aston... | |
| Does Power Cord Require Burn-In To Sound Good? There's a serious issue here that few even want to address...what about cables that sound better BEFORE they burn-in. What then? Huh? HUH?? You just spent $5400 on a big ol' power cable and it just gets worse every day...cellos lose their cellness... | |
| Are all of these NOS tube inventories real? How have we not consumed them already? Note that new tubes, or "currently manufactured tubes" for those who are seemingly confused about what NOS actually means, make up a lot of tube stock (not to be confused with "tube socks"), especially guitar and bass amps (of which I am certain u... | |
| The survival of the fittest. "Marketing- no discernable marketing"...Tekton has had full page adds in Stereophile and the Absolute Sound every month for years...I think that's called marketing. | |
| Why is there no love for Prima Luna? The American business community is responsible for foreign manufacturing as their main goal is generally to make as much money as possible (shocking!)...our lobbyist driven government allows this. Note that Apple could make everything in the USA a... | |
| Are Shakti Stones effective? I think the best test of whether anything is "snake oil" which likely relies on confirmation bias with often unproven or made up benefits ("Quantum Tunneling?"), is the general acceptance in the audio community including manufacturers. If there’s ... | |
| Class A triode - on/off on remote? The Schiit Freya + allows its tubes to turn off when utilizing either the passive or FET settings, both remote switchable...lower gain for those options but the tubes get some rest...there ya go! | |
| Ultralinear and Triode. What's the difference Dennis Had has designed a lot of amps and I've owned a couple of them. The Inspire Firebottle HO (High Output) I currently use (few years now) is designed for Single Ended Class A Pentode use. He's described the design in detail here and there so ... | |
| Klipsch Heresy iv...Your experience. I don't feel that the damping does much if anything so I'll skip it with the IVs. | |
| Any Black Friday tube sales? Like the lovely non-reply from ebm? Man..."thetubestore" is doing 10% off (I assume including NOS tubes), and VIVA tubes is doing 25% off. Just checked Viva and lots of NOS tubes are on sale. There ya go! | |
| Klipsch Heresy iv...Your experience. The speakers were double boxed and maybe 50 lbs each...no pallet, simply deposited on my porch (2 large boxes). The IVs have are designed for lower bass (10hz or so) than the IIIs, but thats still to only around 47 or 50hz where it falls off, and ... | |
| Audiophile system for Techno and Dance music A7s are obsolete basically (I had a pair of 'em in the 70s), as my experience as a current live sound tech has shown. For a fraction of what hifi stuff costs, you can get a pair of (for example) powered Mackie SRM 450s V2 (neo bass driver, etc.) a... | |
| Klipsch Heresy iv...Your experience. The IVs are still breaking-in, and if in another few weeks (the possible magic "500 hour" point) they don't sound better than my IIIs they will be sold to some lucky person... |