mikelavigne
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| How old is too old? a year ago i bought a new TEAC VRDS-701T CD ’only’ transport. it has the newest version of the BIG-BOY VRDS transport and is built like a tank. when i bought it the list price was $2799. now it’s $3299. https://teac.jp/int/product/vrds-701t/top ... | |
| whatsbestforum - what's going on except that I for instance couldn’t discuss my issues with audiogon here. It would be removed. So I think it’s somewhat normal and out of necessity that people talk about a forum on another forum. @gano fair enough, there are things that happ... | |
| whatsbestforum - what's going on one cool part of most hifi forums is that we can just read the whole history of posts of people and draw our own conclusions on whether they play well with others.....or not. we all have our own opinions, but some are more able to navigate the giv... | |
| Leave it on? 2 additional points; 1-in Roon as far as clearing the 'image cache' once you hit that button you do need to wait for at least 10 seconds before you restart Roon for the action to complete. 2-i use an Equi=tech 10WQ 10kva Isolation Transformer fo... | |
| Leave it on? For those of you that leave your gear on like dacs, streamers and SS amps I have a tip to try. Every couple of weeks or so shut them down for 5-10 minutes and then restart. While I don’t understand why, I can say it did something positive to so... | |
| Leave it on? leave on---Wadax dac, server, power supply, two Ethernet switches, class d bass amps, Herzan TS active isolation, Esoteric clock. if gone for over a week these are turned all the way off. standby--darTZeel amps, battery powered preamp off; tape... | |
| whatsbestforum - what's going on it takes a lot to get banned on WBF. there are levels of discipline and temporary separation, multiple times, before that happens. it’s fair to say that in the past there were instances of petty reasons for banning that i saw, but that was long ag... | |
| Turntable setup help needed in Wisconsin Brian Walsh, who lives north of Chicago, is a well respected turntable set-up guy. i've known him for over 25 years. it's not Wisconsin, but not too far from you up near Green Bay either. here is his website. https://ttsetup.com/ good luck! | |
| What do you do when you get a bad vinyl record pressing? I concur with your digitally sourced pressings paragraph. I don’t seek them out but in several cases I’ve crossed that line in search for the best sounding. The last two I recall are Steven Wilson remixes of Aqualung and Songs From The Big Chair.... | |
| What do you do when you get a bad vinyl record pressing? I wish you could have thrown them my way. Especially now we have found out just how many ’analogue’ disks were secretly digitally mastered @richardbrand i did think about who might want them. so i considered taking them to my local audio c... | |
| How competitive are you with your system? the satisfaction of my system is in what it does, not where it ranks. human nature does have a vote so the thoughts about how it compares to other systems is real, but i view that more about learning and sharing ideas, than the need to be better t... | |
| What do you do when you get a bad vinyl record pressing? in 2021 i bought a 3000 pressing classical collection off ebay. i was already a classical enthusiast if not very knowledgeable and owned about 2000 classical pressings. this collection had been owned by a Gramophone reviewer and was very good for ... | |
| Does Chat GPT just give you the answer you are hoping for? personally i think the ’Gon needs a filter button to hide threads with Chat GPT content. to each their own, but i’d like to know threads i view are actually real people with their own thoughts and put their own efforts to write it too. sure; usin... | |
| What exactly is critical listening? Who does it? it's very important to be silly and obsessive and escape into our hobby madness. let go. find your happy place. just don't take yourself too seriously. | |
| What exactly is critical listening? Who does it? My biggest issue is with the claim listening purely for the music is the highest/best mode or goal of the audiophile. How can this be when the very essence of this hobby/obsession is sound quality. So now we’re supposed to ignore sound quality an... |