wolf_garcia
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| ???What's The LEAST Expensive "End Game"Amplifier You've Ever Heard??? The XA-25 is an astonishing sounding amp ("veiled and rolled off highs with wooly bass" are absolutely NOT part of the XA-25 sound in my experience) and I’ve enjoyed mine tremendously for a few years now. It’s a keeper, as is my Had Firebottle HO ... | |
| Echoey walls and dust mites Dust mites can also be tiny mobile sound absorbers. | |
| Interconnect Break In? What if you prefer the sound of non broken-in cables? Do you have to replace all the cables every week or so? I have a few Morrow cables that supposedly take 400 hours or so to break-in, and generally forget about that and completely miss the magi... | |
| Physically Comfortable Headphones I should mention that the large ear pads I bought (2 pairs for both my Grados) 3rd party as otherwise they're silly expensive. | |
| Physically Comfortable Headphones I use Grados on my large Norwegian head with the large pads that sort of surround your ears instead of being on them. Problem solved for me anyway. | |
| Magico speakers too clinical and fatiguing? I think Magicos are great outdoor speakers because they don't warp or rust. | |
| The Low Volume Loudness Dilemma Note the review of the Loki Max from the Absolute Sound...fairly comprehensive and accurate relative to my experience with it. If it wasn't I'd have happily sent it back. I don't have the thing activated in my system until I need it, then I genera... | |
| The Allure of Vintage Audio Gear The only vintage thing around my gear is me. I dragged a pair of A7s around for 15 years in the olden days, and they sounded astonishingly good as stereo speakers when used for that, but generally too big for any living room I had then. Also used ... | |
| The Low Volume Loudness Dilemma I own 3 Schiit EQs and all of them work brilliantly. I use a Loki in my video rig, and another for a headphone EQ running into a Schiit Vali 3 tube amp. The third is a Loki Max remote EQ in my main hifi pile...this thing is brilliant. 4 Presets, a... | |
| I listened to a pair of Audio Research Reference 330Ms My assumption about Had amps is that he doesn't make enough of 'em to make a dent in the gear consumer world. Also, you need efficient speakers to get the most out of these amps (I've owned 2...a Firebottle HO SEP and a newer Firebottle Hotrod...M... | |
| Mark Knopfler & James Taylor What about "Hairway to Steven" by Butthole Surfers? A note about Procul Harum: I saw a strange concert in the early 70s with Humble Pie opening for Harum. Humble Pie were awful (dumb songs they couldn’t get off the ground) but man...Gary Brooker w... | |
| I listened to a pair of Audio Research Reference 330Ms It's a fact that uber expensive audio gear makes you feel taller. I mean...it's gotta do something...right? Also, does the ARC gear sound better than a pair of Schiit Audio's Tyr monoblocks for 4 grand or so? Or Uncle Ralph's (Atma-Sphere) monos a... | |
| I listened to a pair of Audio Research Reference 330Ms 90 grand may be a fair price, but does it contain the build quality and substance of a Porsche or my M2? Does it sound better than my Dennis Had SEP masterpiece (2017 one month old for 1100 bucks)? My Pass XA-25? You like these ARC amps?? Buy ’em ... | |
| Time For a CD Player Upgrade I bought a Schiit Bifrost 2/64 and got the upgrade, then noted that I didn’t have anything that could utilize Schiits touted "Nexus" USB input. I then bought one of their URD transports and a proper cable and VOILA (I’ve never used that word in wr... | |
| Fun read... What a load of nonsense...my audiophile hobby over many decades has rewarded me with loads of pure fun, and if, for example, I try out various speakers and don't like some of 'em I send 'em back or sell them off...any cable that doesn't work to m... |