wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| Low volume listening dynamics Although great sounding systems sound better at ALL levels, you can't deny Fletcher/Munson, and you obviously can't address that without some EQ. Although my rig is running at a lower level as background music a lot of the time, I have a Schiit Lo... | |
| How Do You Live The Audiophile Life Read reviews and, especially with speakers, listen before you buy. I made that mistake a couple of years ago when I talked myself into a pair of well regarded relatively high efficiency speakers that couldn't cut the mustard when compared to the l... | |
| Ambient temp increase with tube amp If it's actually a Cary SLI-100 I assume it has 4 KT150s...like having 4 100 watt lightbulbs under a shelf...they're supposed to be hot. My power amp is a far smaller single ended thing with only 2 power tubes and I give it and my tube preamp (4 t... | |
| Schiit Freya+(Plus) There have been some posts here and there for years about the "microphony of the tubed Freya, but I've had lots of different tubes in mine and have never had a tube display microphonics (I've had microphonic tubes in guitar amps over the years and... | |
| SET the best? Yeah...close most of the speaker options and open up pretty much all the amp options. | |
| SET the best? It is interesting that one can box yourself in with a lower watt tube amp, and deny yourself the vast multitudes (and clear large margin majority) of 83 to 90db efficient speakers...I check efficiency in every review and simply say meh...it will b... | |
| Shootout of Nos 6sn7 tubes NOS GEsare mycurrentfavesafter trying various others in my Freya and Had SEP amp. I also tried double spacing this post to see if it works for me and yeah, it's kinda lame. | |
| Are tubes really “warm”? Kaitty apparently wanted everybody to know about his Walkman/Grado rig as he's mentioned it here more than once, which he may backtrack from any second as hey, so would anybody else. | |
| SET the best? I can't tell if my amp is loafing, and I've used the iPhone meter for years out of curiosity and to test relative channel levels...no idea how many watts my amp is actually using as I don't own whatever gear would tell me that, but it sure seems c... | |
| Looking to upgrade my 3-way towers Try a pair of Klipsch Heresy IVs...the jump from 89db efficiency to 99db might be interesting (I own Heresy IIIs, and they're great sounding), as would the step away from the conventional. | |
| Tube Rolling I replace tubes well before the getter "flashing" gets funky, and often simply because I want to try a different tube...generally the power tubes get the most attention, but my amp has only 2 (single ended pentode) so it's cheap. Preamp tubes seem... | |
| SET the best? My Dennis Had amp is an SEP (pentode) at from 12 to 17wpc depending on tubes used, which means with Gold Lion KT77s, my "tube du jour," I'm likely getting 10 to 12wpc. This drives my 99db Heresy IIIs to as loud as I need to hear 'em with plenty of... | |
| Are tubes really “warm”? Note that Kaitty's said his rig is a Sony Discman through Grado SR80s without earpads, so there's that. | |
| SET the best? After years of SS amps (except for guitar amps....all tube) and just after a nice few years with a great sounding push-pull tube amp, I was absolutely floored by a little Dennis Had single ended pentode amp...just amazed at the clarity and detail,... | |
| Why don’t tube amps sound like tubes anymore? Nonsense...especially with single ended amps. If clarity and improved design for clarity is to be questioned that's just silly, as well as SS amps that, as Nelson Pass says "sound more like tubes" in a good way. It's the harmonic rules you just ca... |