wolf_garcia
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| The new Synergistic Research BLUE fuses .... I think the assumption that I don't hear things as well as others is interesting, and true. Neither does anybody else…but my home system is well sorted and things that DO impact the sound of it, like speaker placement, cables, tubes, etc., are cho... | |
| The new Synergistic Research BLUE fuses .... To be clear, there's is absolutely nothing wrong with imagined things, as long as you're having fun. If somebody else doesn't see the bunny that's OK also. | |
| The new Synergistic Research BLUE fuses .... I’m not anti tweak…I’ve put "chicken head" knobs on a guitar amp, I like good cables and tubes…I have rubber feet under things! I’ve tweaked! To put it simply, I do think fuse "sound" is imagined, unless the fuse is maybe barely hanging on due to ... | |
| Tube Preamps..... The Schiit Freya is maybe a giant killer of a tube preamp, and it's so cheap you could add an astonishingly great DAC and stay in that budget. | |
| EL34 tubes- alternates to matched octet for Primaluna HP dialogue premium NOS preamp tubes are often affordable and I like 'em, but with power tubes I prefer the new stuff. I've used new Gold Lion KT88s and various Tung Sols including KT120s and 150s, and they all work well, sound great, and came with warranties. | |
| Evaluating a system - what do you listen for? If you have a relatively accurate home system it's going to reveal good and bad things, including what the recording engineer did with the pan pots on the mixing board. One of my pet peeves (which I can ignore if I like the music) is the "20 foot ... | |
| The new Synergistic Research BLUE fuses .... Thanks Al…I do sometimes wonder if I toil in a vacuum…or Georgehifi and I (and thankfully a few others) are floating around in one. Remember, nature abhors a vacuum. Regarding Tel555s comments, I have never said that fuses don't work…they do! (I ... | |
| The new Synergistic Research BLUE fuses .... Possibly unlike other "naysayers" I actually did an extensive test of a pile of SR fuses and found them to be both slightly dangerous (not rated properly, so a couple of them blew), and ineffective, providing not only none of the astonishing benef... | |
| Need tube preamp recommendations please With the amazingly good sounding Schiit Freya (had mine in the rig about 4 months) there is a gigantic difference between the very similar sounding passive and FET settings and the tube stage. Not only a huge gain difference with the tube stage, b... | |
| Shiit Loki The fact that it's single ended seems to be its only "non starter" issue and that's for people who have balanced preamp to amp cables, and if anybody can hear when it's in or out of the system (assuming none of its knobs have turned) I'd be surpri... | |
| Sub-Woofer? If you're patient you can score a great REL used. I bought a Q150e for 200 bucks (in great shape about 5 years ago maybe) then a little later found a minty Q108II also for 200 bucks. I doubt newer RELs sound any better than these things, but I hav... | |
| Opinions on Cary CAD120s MK2 Anthony Cordesman did a review of that amp in The Absolute Sound…he really liked the thing. | |
| Flash from power tube This is ruining my desire to obtain a set of "winged C" tubes, although there might be some fun in waiting for them to explode…move the furniture away from the amp and get the extinguisher ready. | |
| Gotta love Nelson Pass Here ya go George: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLQsEeBKg1E | |
| The new Synergistic Research BLUE fuses .... I think the ebb and flow of discussions, where a forum participant feels another member's comments are worthy of response and might be critical of that persons opinions, shouldn't be considered a "personal" comment if that opinion disagrees with h... |