mikelavigne
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| Digitally recorded vinyl vs streaming too many variables to say whether your streaming is better than your vinyl playback with your digitally sourced vinyl. ---how great is your streaming? ---how great is your vinyl playback? ---do you mostly listen to processed pop music? acoustic... | |
| Can an audio rack be that important? rack investment is a relative thing to where you are on the system building path. no one size fits all. 1-to begin with put your gear on the floor and invest your money in the best pair of speakers you can afford. that is the quickest path to the... | |
| Magico's M9 classic Audiogon clown show stuff. why do i even take the time to look? i know how the posts will read already. can’t this forum ever consider the performance merits or build quality of an expensive product, why does price get everyone’s panties ... | |
| Reel to Reel - Half Track - Quarter Track no, that deck cannot play a half track recording properly as it has 4 heads reading 2 tracks. not sure the spread of the heads so can’t say whether you are reading one track twice, or both tracks partially. in any case it’s never going to work. t... | |
| Has Your Hobby Changed? 2 weeks ago, on May 15th, i retired after 49 years in Automotive Retail. i am very curious to see how this change in my life and time management will affect my hifi/music loving hobby. now i can listen as much as i like, before i worked 55 hours ... | |
| What does it take to be a die hard Beatles fan? accepting ’Get Back’ as a very good or great film or even worth the time does not make or break one’s Beatles fandom qualifications. i see this documentary as a table full of excesses which i visit and consume at my own speed. from time to time i ... | |
| Shootout: Roon versus Plex, Qobuz versus Tidal: Who Won? at the tip top of the hardware/software food chain (Wadax Ref dac and Ref server) hard to beat Roon and Quboz as of today. but Roon is hard baked into Wadax. as higher rez files are more common maybe Qudoz will get more competition. Tidal is quit... | |
| Your audiophile chair When you are listening in your chair are you in a reclined position or upright? @ronboco my chair is always in a slightly reclined position (see link below for a picture). my chair has a fixed backrest, fixed seat, and fixed leg supports. it... | |
| millercarbon the picture on the Miller Carbon website is of the room and system of my friend Bob Vinyard in Oregon. Bob hosts Rhapsody Audio: Portland. https://rhapsody.audio/location-portland/ | |
| Your audiophile chair the Ekones Stressless is an excellent chair for lounging. i use one for TV watching, have owned 3 or 4 over time, and really like it when i have the back reclined. but for listening to stereo it’s not ideal, in that mostly it cups the sound around... | |
| Bass only when I stand up… consider a ’swarm’. i’ve been in a 12’ x 12’ x 8’ very small room with great bass. when you look at the room no way it should work, but it does. not cheap, cheap, but not crazy spendy either. cheaper than trying to build another room or find anot... | |
| Vinyl static ionizers who's used them? i own three turntables, and own -2- CS Port IME1’s and a single DS Audio ion-001. so one for each turntable. the advantages of the stand mounted version is continuous emitting of negative ions to reduce static and lower noise. and you turn them ... | |
| 2023 DAC comparison: MSB Select vs dCS Vivaldi Apex vs Wadax Atlantis Reference thanks for posting that, @shkong78 Fred Crowder is a very credible listener. and a good guy. not had the dCS Vivaldi Apex in my room for a direct compare, but agree with Fred about the Wadax. for 18 months i've been saying it resembles good viny... | |
| 2023 DAC comparison: MSB Select vs dCS Vivaldi Apex vs Wadax Atlantis Reference FYI: the wadax combo along with some $150k reference loudspeakers were in one of the worst sounding rooms at last years Axpona according to multiple reviewers/sources. In the past, years ago, I preferred other dacs to the at the time best dac MSB... | |
| 2023 DAC comparison: MSB Select vs dCS Vivaldi Apex vs Wadax Atlantis Reference compares are not trivial to do. to start out you need a system sufficiently sorted out to give you good feedback, and maybe some analog references in the system for context. then you need a very trusting dealer, or dealers, to loan the gear. helps... |