wolf_garcia
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| Schiit Freya+(Plus) On a cold night I can use my "Classic Original Version" Freya to warm my hands by placing them directly on the amp (one at a time since my hands are HUGE), and although I was initially a little concerned by the heat even with plenty of room around... | |
| What makes a speaker sound great at low volume? Yeah we covered "Fletchmun" earlier...ya gotta read the thread... | |
| Tube Preamp with Solid State Amp? By the way, my Schiit Freya/Had "Firebottle" SEP amp combo cost less than 2 grand (the Had amp was used for a few months), and is an astonishingly coherent and musical system that for my tastes provides what SS gear, try as they may, does not. 2 R... | |
| Rogue RP-7 vs. PrimaLuna Dialogue Tube Preamps I'm another "Freya-phile." Original version, and it sounds so good (NOS GEs) I have zero desire to replace it unless I need a second system in my future beach mansion...then a Freya + would be in the mix. | |
| How many people here generally buy used? Both, as with many here I imagine. Some great deals on used cables over the years, a couple of perfect REL subs for 200 bucks each, my Dennis Had amp was a couple of months old and around 400 bucks less than new, etc. A Linn Basik/Akito in near pr... | |
| Speaker cable arrows??? My simple point that Kaitty can’t understand is that the component wires and traces will NEVER be checked for "directionality" because in that context it simply doesn’t matter...at all...dude! | |
| Speaker cable arrows??? Note that none of the wiring (or fuses) or PC board traces in any of your components was likely utilized with any thought as to its directionality. None. | |
| Tube Preamp with Solid State Amp? Dennis Had has his little hand made SEP amps back up on Ebay for 1700 bucks or so...now with a level pot for some reason, and my experience with an earlier version has been great as it's simply the best amp I've owned over many decades of tube and... | |
| Tung-Sol 7581A......Wow!! For reasons perhaps too subtle to accurately describe in any meaningful way, I’ve been sticking with GL KT77s for months now as they seem to (here I go) be more dynamic or...uh...something...than the 7581a tubes which I weirdly simply got bored wi... | |
| If you listen to anything other than Classic Jazz, don't read this. As a musician and jazz freak (and audio freak) who works with jazz musicians as a live sound mixer/producer, I can state without a doubt that there are is no "jazz centric" gear...period. The dynamic range of jazz taken as a genre is astonishing..... | |
| Subwoofer advice sought The Totems do not go to 28hz to any meaningful degree although that's noted as an "in room" spec meaning room boundaries are needed to get anything close to that (another spec on the site lists it as 30hz). There might be a small amount of sound a... | |
| Schiit Freya+(Plus) Yeah I use the tube setting all the time, except when simply switching it to see how my tubes are doing...a useful thing, but the tube setting is more detailed seemingly. The Dennis Had 12wpc amp I use really requires a hotter signal from the prea... | |
| Most Musical 6NS7 tube for a Preamp? What about a Schiit headphone amp? | |
| NYT on Electric Recording Co. vinyl The criticism of the NY Times comes from MAGA hatted crazies who follow a right wing credo to the letter. The Times is far from failing, has one of the most respected group of writers anywhere, and clearly this article was written by a non audio g... | |
| Very basic subwoofer question I’ve owned a couple of used RELs for years and they work beautifully...I’m not interested in more because standing waves in my tall sloped ceiling listening room are tamed by the sub’s locations, and my incredible listening and tweaking skills dev... |