wolf_garcia
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| Toole and why I like Tone Controls I have 2 "tone control" options: Adjusting the levels of my subs (easy to do with the "chicken head" knobs I put on them) which I do rarely, and a Schiit Loki 4 band EQ also used rarely and when switched to bypass it disappears utterly. Neither ha... | |
| REL Subwoofer. Your input requested I have 2 RELs of the same older vintage (a Q150e 10" and a Q108MKII 8"), both bought used (200 bucks each), and although maybe 10 years old or something (not sure) they work perfectly. The "high level" input is the one to use as it replicates the ... | |
| Best Value Line Stage Tube Preamps? I own an original series Freya (landed on NOS GEs as my preferred tubes) for a few years and have had no issues with the sockets as anybody with a modicum of tube experience should know how to wiggle tubes out of an amp. Easy peasy. Mine has been ... | |
| Cary Preamp SLP-94L Try a Schiit Freya + as it has far more flexibility than any Rogue or really any other preamp (no phono input, but at the price Schiit sells 'em for that can be forgiven), and it's a bargain. Too inexpensive for the snob driven area of the audioph... | |
| Are your speakers designed for your listening taste and hearing ability? Is "music performed in a real space" always acoustic? And if so, what are the acoustics? Tall feathered hats and corrugated steel walls? Outdoors with actual bird sounds (back when there were birds). Carnegie Hall? What seats? Can you sit under th... | |
| Axe to grind know it alls I want people to look at my posts and closely read every damn thing I say noting that, hey, I'm not seeking attention. | |
| Speaker Sales on Audiogon Here's a tip or two for selling here or on Ebay...don't charge for Paypal as that just seems lame (and anti business) and simply list whatever it is for enough to cover your costs...I estimate shipping to cover "CONUS" only and just have it as a f... | |
| Are your speakers designed for your listening taste and hearing ability? Somehow every speaker I've liked over the decades was amazingly designed just for me as the result of a happy engineering accident. My current Klipsch Heresy IIIs must have been the result of Roy Delgado secretly stalking me, as he nailed it...how... | |
| Do I need a sub? Get one or two used RELs (or a swarm system if you have the space as they're alleged to work) and don't bother with the silliness of limiting the output to the main speakers and just 'em run within their limits. I used a single REL Q150e (10" fron... | |
| Does any one have a link to Playboys stereo systems of the rich and famous? Or in my case a 14 year old kid in the mid 60's who was given a subscription to Playboy by my recently divorced mother...supposedly justified by the fact I was a James Bond fan and had read every book, and now Playboy was serializing Ian Fleming's... | |
| Does any one have a link to Playboys stereo systems of the rich and famous? I haven't cared about Playboy in many years, but back in the day it employed some of the best writers in the biz, and the Playboy Interview was generally respected and very cool. Hef's "Playboy Philosophy" was unreadable nonsense, but otherwise it... | |
| The Arm/Cartridge Matching Myth I simply refuse to post anything to this thread. | |
| Guttenberg's Cornwall IV Review -- I'm in trouble Good reasonably full range speaker systems are NOT music specific, and note that orchestral music for example generally has much more dynamic range than metal or punk where the pedal is generally floored...and indie rock? All over the sonic map. | |
| Would you donate a dollar to have these Members Review a Product? I think I've become a single ended tube amp freak to the degree that any transistor class A or A/B or likely class D amp wouldn't stack up in my personal tube laden gear heap, so I might be useless as a general reviewer. This was demonstrated by 2... | |
| Help me understand John Coltrane .... seriously. As a beatnik, I listen to jazz a lot. I also smoke pot and own a Bonneville ( I have beret someplace). Note that jazz as an astonishing art form is less popular than polka so hey...if you don't get it that's OK as most people don't, a thing I'm us... |