wolf_garcia
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| What other Hobbies or Interests Do You Have? Panda taxidermy, motorcycle, too many guitars, seemingly fast cars, longboard surfing, automatic watches, relentlessly bullying those who appear to be weak and silly. | |
| The shams, scams and dead ends of the High Fidelity hobbie/passion/adiction Note that Millercarbonresidue owns piles of what many consider to be useless tweaks from the profit margin marginalized mind of Ted Denny, and he pontificates ad nauseam about this stuff often...for this guy to single out Kaitty as one who promote... | |
| Selling on Audiogon Paypal is convenient. Next question. | |
| Pure Class A SS vs Tube Amp With Heresy IIIs I tried 2 Aegirs out of curiosity based on the positive reviews, and it was 2 only because #1 was defective (Schiit sent a new one immediately...great service from those people)...I use a Dennis Had Firebottle HO single ended pent... | |
| Klipsch Heresy IV My IIIs new were from an Ebay store that's allegedly an "official" Klipsch dealer and cost about $1500 including shipping..."B" stock IVs I see here and there can be owned for as low as $2200 or so which is tempting to say the least (or maybe I ca... | |
| REL Subwoofer. Your input requested I know from years of pro sound and home hifi abuses that a long run of unbalanced or RCA (low level inputs on RELs) cables results in funky signal loss and possible gum disease. I do wonder what if any effect there is on the signal from the use of... | |
| Synergistic Research Cable Risers? I’ve been in the music business for over 50 years as a musician and concert producer/sound engineer...I’ve got friends all over the place, and if anyone thinks I’m going to mention their names to in this crowd you’d be mistaken. But hey...it does ... | |
| KT88 tube amp My issues with Shuguang were cosmetic (badly printed tube) and a rectifier with a loose base (as opposed to "loose bass"). | |
| Does raising speaker cables off the floor really make a big difference? There is one obvious difference with raising cables off the floor, and that's the fact that once that's done, they're off the floor. | |
| Linear Power supplies for DACs...? It is hard to say what the audible difference is with my fabulous power supplies, but because they're simply so large and cool (compared to the wall warts anyway) I've decided they're better anyway...and a part of my humless system. | |
| Synergistic Research Cable Risers? I have a friend who toured with Dylan for years and I saw him at a party recently...I asked him about Kaitty’s comment and he laughed and noted he’d NEVER heard old Bob say that...and yeah, he never has said it at the end of any album I know of. H... | |
| Should I buy a VPI SCOUTMASTER. I OWN 25 RECORDS. I'm wary of Scoutmasters as they can force you to tie knots and wear sketchy military style uniforms...I prefer my Linn as it doesn't "ask" me to do anything but listen to it. | |
| KT88 tube amp I've had some issues with Shuguang quality control over the years so I'm leaving those off of my list (except for "thetubstore's" preferred 274b as those seem to be vetted) for now, but GL KT77s and KT88s always sound fine, and an old unused pair ... | |
| Guest suddenly takes it upon herself to move my speakers Is the disturbance of gear (or DOG) sort of epidemic I was unaware of? I raised a child, have friends...blah blah...but seemingly these people display some sort of extra virtuous comportment as over many decades there's been only one minor inciden... | |
| Cary Audio: Tube preamp (SLP-98) paired with (SA-200.2) solid state amplifier? Transistors simply aren't tubes. Period. Although Nelson Pass uses some smart techniques to get close, it's nearly always mentioned that a class A SS amp, the SIT stuff, Class A XA25...well regarded items all...get "close" to a tube amp's sound al... |