wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| Budget SET or SEP recommendations? Recently adopted a barely used Dennis Had "Inspire Fire Bottle" SEP (pentode) amp…astonishing great sounding thing, hand made, relatively inexpensive either new or used at under a grand or so used to around 1500 bucks new. His thing now (he retir... | |
| Harbeth SLH5 plus. Top or bottom binding post? Fuse directionality doesn't matter at all. AC, half inch teeny wire, and it's designed to melt. I've never hooked AQ wire up backwards but hey…if it got geoffkait off my back to perhaps stalk somebody else... | |
| Which Budget Friendly Floorstanders Next? Sonist Recital 3s were just added to my rig…ribbon tweeter, efficient, wood (weirdly, but 100% Poplar cabinets…no MDF, no veneer), sound fabulous. | |
| Harbeth SLH5 plus. Top or bottom binding post? Ran into Bill Low recently and he said when single wiring with jumpers it CAN matter which post you use…who knew? Bill knew (!)…My previous speakers were single wired due to the designer's recommendation (Alan Yun, Silverline Prelude speakers), an... | |
| phasel linear 400 To add to a pointless thread: A friend knew Gene Cerwinski and had a pair of home speakers with a 15 and a tweeter…late 60s. Interesting if somewhat overkill speakers for his small cabin.That Acoustic 360 beast of a bass amp became the ubiquitous ... | |
| Slight hum in my amp. Is this normal? I was unaware (until I heard about it here and looked the damn things up) of the Emotiva CMX stuff, but it IS less expensive than the Humbuster III, and actually obtainable. Cool. | |
| Subwoofer recommendation I use 2 relatively inexpensive (bought used) RELs and they’re perfect. Can’t imagine not having those damn things….a Q150e and a Q108II. | |
| Slight hum in my amp. Is this normal? I bought a now discontinued PS Audio Humbuster III to solve that issue and it did. Those things show up for sale here and there and something like that should be made by somebody else, but I’m not sure if that exists. Maybe as part of a good power... | |
| Measurements - Clearly Explained Had does go on about the 2nd order harmonics inherent in this amp, and regarding "dogma," the entire SET (or SEP in this case) world has its own dogma it seems, and I'm all for it as it's a thing that has transformed my thinking about such things ... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Strangely applied pseudo logic from the beleaguered geoffkait (remember, he's sold bags of pebbles to place on your cables) seems too have hit a new low when he compares skeptics to OJ lawyers. Not that OJ's lawyers aren't relevant, they're just n... | |
| Audiophiles are not alone The feel of the instrument to the musician is what counts, and all that matters. | |
| Measurements - Clearly Explained The Dennis Had "Inspire Fire Bottle" amp I bought recently has NO specs anywhere I can find, except descriptions in his Ebay comments regarding things like output from various tubes and power supply design…I bought it because it’s cute (the first ... | |
| A good cartridge match for a VPI Scout 1.1 w/ JMW-9T arm, under $1,000 I've also heard great things about the Hana MC Shibata (the low output one seems like the preferred version) from at least the 2 audio joints around here (Goodwin's and Natural Sound). In fact, I don't recall any other new cart getting so much pos... | |
| Amperex 6SN7GTB Yeah…I'll maybe send a note to those guys and they may know what's what. | |
| I'm selling speakers for the first time and concerned about fraud I was paid a few thousand dollars for some gear years ago…with stolen postal money orders. Took my bank a month to charge them to me, and they supposedly were investigating…right…lesson learned. |