wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| You didn't hear it here. I read a recent Alon Wolf (Magico) interview where he says they use Redbook standard digital to test his speakers, so there's that. Great recordings in any format can, and do, sound great...I've hear MQA playback and like I said, it's good if it's... | |
| Should people who can't solder, build or test their speakers be considered audiophiles? Are brilliant guitar players required to build their own guitars? Are art critics and experts required to paint like Matisse? Are audio experts required to be as irrelevant as Kaitty? The answers are obviously no. | |
| Vandersteen Model 1 Driver Failure: Worth Fixing? After cats ripped the covers of my 1Bs, I sent ’em off to Vandy and they replaced the covers and tightened up everything. Not expensive, although it was a while ago...asked them if upgraded drivers were available and old Richard got on the phone a... | |
| REL R25 good ? Here's a criticism: REL sent me a note indicating they would not repair my Q150e or my Q108MKII...luckily they were both bought used and at relatively low cost and still work perfectly, but RELs lack of support and lack of interest in recommending... | |
| Why Don't More People Into Music Reproduction At Home Play Around With Musical Instruments Mandolins are much more difficult to play than pretty much any ukulele (except maybe a Tiple, which is essentially a 10 steel stringed uke) ...I wouldn't recommend mandolins to anybody (and I have one). Also a note on Don Ho, I saw him play with h... | |
| Why Don't More People Into Music Reproduction At Home Play Around With Musical Instruments I tell people to get a great sounding ukulele (some inexpensive foreign made ones can be pretty damn good) if they want something to get going on...I have a Kamaka I bought in 1964 which led to a career as a musician (now there's piles of fancy gu... | |
| Combining a sub-woofer with Bookshelf Speakers I used a REL Q150e by itself for a while and it worked perfectly in my large-ish listening room, then added a Q108MKII which made things even better...the secret to great sub sound is actually really simple...move the sub around (first making sure... | |
| MC Cartridge: Elliptical; around 0.5mv; track 1.25-1.75; Affordable Ortofon Quintet Red...great cartridge. | |
| How to accurately gauge speaker sensitivity to match with tube amp? You can clip a tube amp all day and no harm will come to drivers...ask any guitar player. | |
| Are these Speakers the BEST on Planet Earth ?... World Series baseball is limited to this world (Earth) and thus apt. Also, an "ultimate" speaker seems ridiculous, although Ultimate Spinach was classic late 60s Boston. | |
| Are these Speakers the BEST on Planet Earth ?... I think limiting this sort of thing to planet earth is unfair to other planets. | |
| ???Anyone Here UpGrade From Yaqin/Cayin/etc... To Another Tube Amp Considered Hi End??? I owned a Jolida 502p amp for years and it worked beautifully, but when a Dennis Had Inspire "Firebottle" SEP (pentode) showed up as a barely used item on Ebay I jumped on it. I realized (even before switching to very efficient speakers) there re... | |
| Where to find Shuguang tubes? I bought a couple of Shuguang 274B rectifiers from "thetubestore.com." Great service, great (vetted) tubes. | |
| Expanding questions about tubes in a preamp I've actually tried dampers and they provided zero improvement of the tonal aspects of any part of the performance of the tube amp and preamp, not unlike Kaitty's futile and irrelevant snarky posts. Microphonic tube paranoia is simply providing an... | |
| Good Stereo Speakers for outside use during BBQs, evening pot luck dinners etc If you’re not needing dance music levels get a new version of a small portable little "boom box" thing with bluetooth...nobody at a party cares about the quality of the background music anyway. Another solution is small PA speakers like the Mackie... |