wolf_garcia
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| Tone controls -- assuming you're ok with them, when would you try them? The Loki is absolutely appropriate for a "high end" system...it's the cleanest and quietest EQ I've come across in decades of home audio and pro audio experience, and although I use it rarely, generally to spruce up older vinyl, it's an amazing th... | |
| Tube Rolling Time I stumbled across (not literally) a little Dennis Had Inspire SEP amp a few years ago and although it requires efficient speakers (which I have), it has 4 tubes...rectifier, input, and 2 output tubes. This means it's a tube rollers dream since the... | |
| Why don't amplifier Companies use high end fuses? Littelfuse (yeah...that's how it's spelled...weirdly) is missing an opportunity here. They should start a "boutique" line of their fuses specifically aimed at audio geeks and claim they've bombarded them (the fuses, not the geeks) with "quantum xr... | |
| Any Line Magnetic LM34IA owners here? I don't own a Line Magnetic, but I can say that Gold Lion KT77s are GREAT tubes...My Dennis Had Firebottle amp can accommodate all sorts of power tubes and I've tried many...various KT88s, 7581a, KT120 and 150...and I'm back to the GL KT77s these ... | |
| Different Tubes and general purpose? Fuses don't make any difference in the sound of any component unless they blow or rot somehow. It's because they're fuses. | |
| Reasonable moving coil cartridge The Ortofon Quintet Red is a great sounding MC cartridge. It just is. 350 bucks or so. | |
| Seriously considering tube preamp…opinions? Old chestnut? Tube guitar amps are generally at the end of that pedalboard chain for a reason...they sound better. A great tube guitar amp has a much snappier response than a SS amp (although many jazz dudes are into Polytones or other SS amps...a... | |
| These seem a bit pricey $$$ There are many well regarded inexpensive speakers that sell well from Paradigm, Elac, Klipsch, Wharfedale, etc., so the argument that pricing defines quality is ridiculous. | |
| Question about Tone Controls + Equalizers I use the Loki when a recording needs some help, otherwise it's out of the system but ready to be hooked up when needed. I've used all sorts of EQs in pro audio and recording over decades, prefer the "purist" approach in hifi with no additional eq... | |
| Rectifier For Cary SLP 05 I use one of those gigantic 274b rectifiers because it's simply so cool looking, and it seems to work well...the tubestore.com "preferred" version. Might not fit in some amps. | |
| Suggestions regarding preamplifier choice There are a plethora of positive reviews of the Freya and Freya +, including a pile from me. "My original version is absolutely perfect"...see?...there's another one. Obviously nobody makes anything that approaches a Freya tube preamp relative to ... | |
| Sophia Electric is not honest Is it possible to run around Sue? | |
| Seriously considering tube preamp…opinions? Unless you're into some esoteric old tube with tonal qualities you MUST have, great tubes of all types are abundantly available...and plenty of new ones have become hits among tube geeks...new Gold Lions, KT120s and 150s, Psvane items etc., and I ... | |
| What country builds the best audio equipment? I'd say based on Neutrik its got to be Liechtenstein. | |
| How does this make sense, any sense? Any sense at all?? The "Big Room" thing always mystifies me...where are the Big Room people listening? 50 feet away from the speakers? My listening space is relatively large but I sit 8 or 9 feet from the speakers because that's where they sound best for me...not 30... |