mikelavigne
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| 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... | |
| 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. |