mikelavigne
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| Garrard 301 - Project @lalitk @jazdoc it was worth the jump for me, but this is not so simple a question. my local friend @jazdoc owns the Zero, and the Sumile mono. maybe he will chime in. i have heard both in his system; the Zero was excellent, now the Sumile mo... | |
| The best reference is live music the idea is that the best systems tell us what the recording engineer wanted us to hear. sometimes that is live to 2 track and so locations of instruments do match the video or picture. but also this simple mic'ing technique might not allow us to ... | |
| Seeking Maine audiophile group interested in social intercourse would recommend contacting the prominent HiFi manufacturers in Maine and ask them about local audiophile groups you might contact. Rockport Technologies in South Thomaston, or Transparent Audio in Saco. it appears both of those companies are relat... | |
| Why hasnt a turntable manufacturer produced a table with automatic tonearm return/shutoff? why not? very low priority in terms of actual use. most serious vinyl users would be afraid of other compromises introduced by an unneeded complicated feature. rather put their money on things making the performance better. and the manual process... | |
| Projectors now vs 15 years ago i have a separate 2 channel hifi room and completely separate home theater room with a JVC RS-4500 4k front projector and 2:35 screen and a 9.3.6 Dolby Atmos speaker system. i only mention that to say that i do somewhat understand front projectors... | |
| They should charge more for it… one very obvious justification to charging more for the Wilson Benesch GMT One turntable is that the development was somewhat funded by UK Government. if WB had to amortize all that funding into the development expense the price would have been hi... | |
| Why don’t more members post their systems in their profile? it’s very simple why more don’t post their systems. 7-8 years ago Audiogon removed the system comment activity from the regular thread queue sequence and placed them below all the non system posting threads. so members must scroll down below the... | |
| What A Drag It Is Getting Old just assumed it was about a great Stone’s song..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-zxBNz3XbM i'm 73 years old, and it's really not so bad getting old to be honest about it. but maybe i'm not yet old enough to know. | |
| Outer Vinyl Sleeves, is it a good idea? @noromance thanks. i think i’m past the point where i will be buying more sleeves. in 2021 i bought a 3000 record classical pressing collection. but i had no time or room to sort it out. then in 2023 i retired and had the time but needed additio... | |
| Outer Vinyl Sleeves, is it a good idea? 90% of my 12,000 records have outer sleeves. i just prefer to remove the actual pressing from outside the jacket. so the record sits inside the outer sleeve, but outside the actual original jacket. this allows me to easily navigate my collection i... | |
| Native DSD versus DoP there was a time when optimizing native dsd was significant. 10+ years ago dacs still sounded a bit harsh with PCM. they were just not quiet enough. so ideally we pursued pcm converted to dsd and better yet dsd native files and dacs that kept dsd ... | |
| 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 ... | |
| 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... |