wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| Subwoofer With the exception of Bo, pretty much nobody would use subs into the low mids as it isn't necessary and is simply not going to sound right. If you have very bass shy monitors you might put the subs up to 80hz or something but beyond that it gets w... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Interestingly my Adcom 515 doesn't impart anything to my system other than its sequential power up abilities and has earned its place there until it dies…I've tried directly bypassing it to see if anything sounds better or worse, and it appears to... | |
| Life without a remote Years ago I thought I might design a remote called the "Knobulater." A small box with a pulley which allows a rubber belt to run from it to the volume knob…controlled by a remote to drive the belt and switch direction. Zero degradation except to m... | |
| More resistance is less load?? Since gardening season is starting here, this thread makes me wonder about the impedance of my watering faucets…I don't want to water a 2 ohm garden with a 16 ohm hose. | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... So to sum up, the clarity, texture, sound staging, coherence, scent, otherworldliness, mojo, mass appeal, appeal to those in MA (where I live), bass profundity, basso gonzo delecto, air around instruments, air around your socks, heir apparent, app... | |
| Concert Experience for $5k? I mix concerts professionally (generally smaller jazz, classical, or folkie stuff) and I can't imagine why anybody would want the "concert experience" in their home. The sound is "dual mono" (with light stereo reverb sometimes to make the crowd th... | |
| Determining current flow to install "audiophile" fuses. You really can't pose any argument or meaningful discussion with subjective opinion regarding magic fuses or any other technically questionable tweak…if somebody "feels" their hifi has an improved soundstage, instrument tonal quality, or any other... | |
| Whats a good freq to measure baseline SPL when calibrating a sub? I've found that to get a REL sub right is to simply find out what your main speakers are doing…i.e. where their lows actually go (speaker specs aren't always accurate) before running out of gas, and I use a Stereophile test cd for that. I adjust m... | |
| Advice on Phono Cartridge Yeah…it seems to be too large for the Akito's wires to make the bend around to the tonearm clips…or something... | |
| Advice on Phono Cartridge I was tempted to try one of the "2M" carts but it was pointed out to me by another Akito owner that they won't fit on my arm. Weird but true. | |
| Help with high level subwoofer connection Good banana plugs work very well and lots of discerning ears like ’em, so fear not the banana! I have 2 RELs on an amp with my main speakers using bananas for the mains, spades for one sub and the second sub uses bare wires securely stuck in the b... | |
| interconnect choice Buy used cables if you're not impatient…my all "solid core" balanced and unbalanced (like myself) wire pile is all high endish AQ stuff bought for a LOT less than new and all of it sounds great…silver digital, Type 8 speaker wire, etc. | |
| Advice on Phono Cartridge I have no idea why this works, but a couple of years ago my local high end shop recommended a Sumiko Pearl after a new AT440 sounded screechy on my Akito arm…the Pearl sounds amazingly good still…and it's inexpensive. | |
| Determining current flow to install "audiophile" fuses. I can rest my case…maybe. | |
| Performer-in-Room Quality with Speakers? Having had a vocalist in my lap I can vouch for the efficacy of that as a reasonable goal. |