OCD mickey website and negativity.

I like Mike.  I follow his YT channel and he’s entertaining and I’ve learned about some brands I didn’t know.  I don’t always agree with what he’s saying but that’s a good thing.  Makes me think a bit more. I’ve also met him a couple of times and he’s been a genuinely nice guy.  Keep doing your thing, Mike.

When dealing with you as an individual I and others have found him very respectful, not putting down your equipment, taste or budget. He seems as much or more interested you being moved by the music and establishing a long term audiophile friendship, as in making a sale.

This is true (when dealing with him "in person").

Pretty safe bet Mikey is sweet as apple pie when you put your hard earned dollars in his pocket, thus becoming a full fledged member of the Tribe.

Pretty safe bet Mikey is sweet as apple pie when you put your hard earned dollars in his pocket, thus becoming a full fledged member of the Tribe.

Yep. There's a phrase for that.

Pizza bloggers work same pretty much roaming around nation and tasting pizza bites on YT. 

heck

I like to watch OCD have his nervous breakdowns and then recover. In the recovery stage he can be charming and level. It can be suspenseful and entertaining to watch him go though his process. He is the very embodiment of the hyper audiophile, and that is we when we are at our most exposed and vulnerable to our passion.

Pretty safe bet Mikey is sweet as apple pie when you put your hard earned dollars in his pocket, thus becoming a full fledged member of the Tribe.

Pretty sure he also tells guys to go out and buy something else he doesn't carry, if he thinks it's a better fit for them.  Pretty safe bet he's not all that desperate for your hard earned cash and will try and say whatever to get it (like certain others).

@deep_333 

Maybe somewhere, sometime Mikey recommended a piece of gear he doesn't sell.  Good for him if that happened.  Unfortunately, that does not fit with his industry black sheep, expose industry lies and rip offs, trust me, join the Tribe schtick.  

Again, I ask how is this marketing hype any different than what the big bad industry insiders promote?   "passive RF/EMI filtering technology utilizing rare earth minerals in a polymer matrix, as well as treatments to the live and neutral leg to reduce magnetic flux, as well as a crystal wafer resonating disc which activates in the presence of AC power."  

No doubt we all need a crystal wafer resonating disc, maybe several, to make our systems sound great.

...enjoying the show....but the popcorns’ down to the unpopped....

As for a ’crystal wafer disc that resonates’, I think I can hold off on that for awhile...😏 No firm idea on WTH it’ll need or have to have to work proper....

Besides, my samurai Iaido classes are taking up free time of late....

Really, who cares? It’s just a dumb hobby mostly related to old guys with more money than sense. 

Really, who cares? It’s just a dumb hobby mostly related to old guys with more money than sense. 

You kiss your momma with that mouth?

Acoustics experiments was not a "dumb hobby"... Nor was my experiments in headphone or speakers modifications...

It is "related to an old guy" though yes, because i had plenty of time to do it being retired...

All my system cost is 1000 bucks... All my experiments costed nothing  or very low amount, all being homemade with discarded materials or peanuts costs devices  then all  "old guy" here are not "with more money than sense" ... But some  here have less brain than anything else for sure...

Really, who cares? It’s just a dumb hobby mostly related to old guys with more money than sense.

New ocd video out featuring the Nat amplifiers. 

I never noticed how bright these things are.  Anybody ever try these nat amplifiers with their oversized tubes.  Is it a good thing to have tubes so big?

These are $100,000 amplifiers. What makes them so expensive??

I cannot fault your post observation...😁

I will try to improve ...😊

But perhaps it will suit me more to be a lesser James Joyce ...😁

Thanks anyway for your caring ...😊

My best to you for sure and the warmest welcome ...

@mahgister, why not type out your thoughts in your native language, then run it through an English translator, followed up with something like Grammarly( literal translations can still be confusing). You’re more difficult to follow than James Joyce at his most stream-of-conscious worst!

I like Mikey and his channel. I happen to think a pair of Kef Blades and Classe monoblocks make a very high end sound though. I wouldn't buy them at Magnolia but it is a very good sound in my opinion.

@vitussl101 

How do you know Mikey gets up every morning excited about the day ahead? Being passionate does not excuse bad behavior.

The back handed swipe at Mahgister is a no class move.

@emergingsoul the price of the NAT amplifier you speak of has more of a justification than a lot of other high end amps. Those tubes need about 2kv on the plate,so everything inside the amp has to be able to handle that voltage or you can get corona discharge. You don’t have to worry about breaking the tubes, it comes with a cage around the tubes from the manufacturer.

OCD Mikey is a legitimate dealer who has an eccentric flair. He is right that a lot of big box stores are designed to impress rich people who know as much about audio as they do rebuilding their Porsche PDK gearboxes themselves which is zero.

He cuts through the hype and has premium brands that are known but a lot of you are not experienced to be in the know and lambast and chastise him because you don’t have the experience to have learned right from wrong yet.

@mahgister I did make a mistake. I should have said James Joyce at his most stream-of-conscious best!  Read Ulysses twice.  Still have a hard time with it.  Who am I to argue with one of the greatest authors?  Maybe Infinite Jest is the better analogy; more footnotes than Dante's Divine Comedy.

No harm...

Anyway you are right about my syntax and style and right about Joyce...

My best to you...

@mahgister I did make a mistake. I should have said James Joyce at his most stream-of-conscious best!  Read Ulysses twice.  Still have a hard time with it.  Who am I to argue with one of the greatest authors?  Maybe Infinite Jest is the better analogy; more footnotes than Dante's Divine Comedy.

 

@invalid

Have you heard the nat amplifiers?

Are these experimental? and that’s a lot of electricity flowing through those things. What does “more of a justification” mean as you indicated when comparing to other amplifiers?

They look super exotic but how do they compare? 

There not experimental, they use the largest triode ever made, every part in the circuit has to be able to handle the voltage. One tube can be over 150 watts of output power, so you can use a set amps like these for lower efficiency speakers.

@invalid

Those are nice comments about the nat amps but have you ever heard them and how do they sound ?.

I’ve only heard them on YouTube

The NAT amps sound amazing. I just picked up the Magma M HRS mono's. I got home yesterday. I also own the 805 Generators, there's a picture of them in my virtual system. The Magma M's are single ended triode. The Generators are push pull triode. After listening to them in my rig last night and most of today, I can tell you that the Magma M's are more musical sounding than the Generators. They both have great range and bass response. My speakers need massive power from tube amps given that they are 88 dB at 1 meter and 4 ohm. 

One of my Generator mono blocks died in October. My tech has been trying to fix them since then but was unable to. He tried everything. There aren't any schematics available for them. We called NAT in Serbia and they couldn't help either. If I can find a single mono block somewhere I'd have a working pair. They're 17 years old.

Mikey gave me an INCREDIBLE deal on the Magma M's. I couldn't pass it up. I'll upload a new photo.

Mikey didn't have to do anything for me after my Generators died. I bought them from him used a couple of years ago. They worked great until they didn't. That's the way the cookie crumbles. All I can say is that he really stepped up to help me out and I greatly appreciate that! He treats his people right. Spend some money with him and you'll know what I'm talking about. 

@vuch 

I love how your NAT amplifiers look. I think the tube size on your amplifier seems more appropriate for since the oversized tubes I see from OCD.  How long does it take to get an amplifier from him?  What happens if they need to be repaired do you send them back to Mike Powell or back to Serbia?

I had a return issue on some amplifiers and fortunately my dealer was nearby replaced the amplifier but if I had to get it serviced, it would've taken 3 to 4 months if I'm lucky.

Maybe they can fix it here in the US if I was to buy one.

@emergingsoul, Thanks. The Magma New tubes are quite a bit bigger than the Magma M tubes. The Magma New chassis is also taller than the M chassis.

I’ve listened to a number of different tube amp designs. I prefer the SET topography best of the different designs I’ve heard. These are very musical. They pair the best with my speakers of the different amps I’ve had in the rig.

If he doesn't have them in stock, Mikey can get the amps relatively quickly. If there is an issue with one, he has several qualified techs in different parts of the country. If an issue arrises, the details are worked out based on the location and circumstances. It’s not a big deal.

Why are the new tubes so much bigger? What's the value of having these tubes so big?

Ironically, I have been pursuing hard a new DAC and was reading tons of reviews and watching a variety of videos.  It wasn’t until I viewed  a few that I put it together and realized that some were from that OCD guy mentioned in this Audiogon thread. I also found that he carries one of the DACs in which I’m interested. This led me to his website where I found two things that earned my respect.

First, he is someone who appreciates the contribution the room makes to the sound and advises you don’t go nuts if you cannot hear the sound the equipment provides. From his website:

“Unless you can have a dedicated listening room, especially if you need to share the room with family and you musnt have speakers in to the room , etc, then realize you can take things only so far. Not as far as with a listening room, so make it good and stop there. no expense on equipment can make up for poor room positioning or acoustics. You can still get much enjoyment, and everyone will understand why you keep it sensible and conservative.”

Second, he requires a conversation before you drop (a lot) of your hard-earned cash. From his website:

“We believe that you should have quality products that fit your needs. For that reason, all of our products with a price of $4000 or more requires a brief consultation. We want you to be 100% satisfied and we look forward to speaking with you about this product.”

I look forward to talking with him because I want to know if the crazy money I may be spending will bring me a DAC that is in line with my system or is so far above it I will be wasting my money.  As Maghister says, it’s all about system matching.

I had neither seen nor heard of him until this thread and only now am reading it. So far, all OCDMikey has demonstrated to me is that he is human. I have no quibble with that. I trust him and I trust me to figure out if I should not.

What OCD mickey said here is true completely from my limited experience and very important then i believe you about OCD mickey tcutter  :

“Unless you can have a dedicated listening room, especially if you need to share the room with family and you musnt have speakers in to the room , etc, then realize you can take things only so far. Not as far as with a listening room, so make it good and stop there. no expense on equipment can make up for poor room positioning or acoustics. You can still get much enjoyment, and everyone will understand why you keep it sensible and conservative.”

I enjoy his videos when they short and to the point and filled with commentary about audio components all the extra rhetoric is very very annoying.

Brilliant minds work differently than the rest of us I guess. Although being blissfully ignorant with a low IQ like me has its advantages to. 

I learned reading your posts that you are a very sensible and sensitive person... It is better than high I.Q.  with no heart intelligence... Then dont be too harsh on yourself  ...

My very best to you ...

I enjoy his videos when they short and to the point and filled with commentary about audio components all the extra rhetoric is very very annoying.

Brilliant minds work differently than the rest of us I guess. Although being blissfully ignorant with a low IQ like me has its advantages to.

Everybody is free to spend as much or as little on audio gear as they so choose.  However, don't fall into the trap of thinking expensive is always technically superior sounds better.  A $100K amp is not 1000 times better than a good $1K amp.

Also, you are free to believe the black sheep act and ignore Mikey products marketed  with the same meaningless techno-bable claims as those he is on a mission to expose as frauds.

Finally, you are free to ignore his application of situational ethics. Come to Audiogon to deceitfully bait members making unproven accusations that number of posts equates to being a manufacturers shill.  Then promote himself as an honest broker with only customer happiness his goal - if you spend more than $4K.