mikelavigne
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| Anyone See Downside to an Ionizer blowing on Turntable? on my 3 tt's i use -2- CS Port IME1 units, and 1 DS Audio Ion 001. the DS Audio is a bit more effective, but much more difficult to position effectively. it's about how your shelf and plinth are positioned, which one works better. both of these u... | |
| Anyone See Downside to an Ionizer blowing on Turntable? wind across your tonearm will cause more miss tracking than the potential benefit. pre-treatment does not last a full side. i have 3 turntables, and three anti-static ionizers that project negative ions on the pressing as it turns. but no air mo... | |
| How tall do you like your images? i generally prefer the original digital master to the Lp made from it, but we don't always get the chance to own that low gen digital master, so the result is variable. so generalizing is hard. but unless you sample the choices and compare, you re... | |
| How tall do you like your images? there is more to music than soundstaging and spatial clues. there is not only timbre, but tonal density, flow, scale, weight, authority, bloom, bass articulation and tone leading edge cohesiveness, and decay. there is cohesion at high SPL’s. and a... | |
| How tall do you like your images? @deep_333 thank you for updating your system info. certainly some big steps up from what i had been able to find looking back at your posting. congrats on your well thought out systems. i might recommend doing an Audiogon system page so other r... | |
| How tall do you like your images? When you said 9.3.6, i already know you fooked up with cramming too many quantity over quality speakers in a li’l room ( i have a 30 by 35 room and i refuse to go any higher than 5.2.4 for atmos music listening that will startle all 6.023*10^23 m... | |
| How tall do you like your images? I dismiss all stereo speakers that don’t sound like I have front heights, surrounds and back heights active. Many of you stereo purists crumble to dust and get washed down the gutter when the bar is set high (in spite of what you spent). 😉 (Yeah... | |
| How tall do you like your images? it ought to be entirely recording dependent. the more your system shows you differences between recordings, the better it is. cuz they are all different. if your system and room have sufficient acoustics, space and signal path headroom, then any ... | |
| SET Lovers, what's the one solid state amp you love(d)? the solid state darTZeel NHB-108 stereo amplifier replaced Tenor Audio OTL tube amps in my system 19 years ago now. and over 19 years with the darTZeel brand i’m still a tube lover using solid state. you can find used darTZeel 108 stereo amps at ... | |
| How Do Amps Affect Soundstage? amplifiers are part of the distortion equation. especially the amplifier<->speaker relationship. if the amplifiers have headroom in the ability to keep the speaker linear, then the subtle ambient clues and musical threads that occupy the sou... | |
| Vacuuming after ultrasonic vinyl cleaning i think we choose our path; ----ultrasonic cleaning with blow dry or hang dry. or ----friction/scrub cleaning with vacuum. there are many subsets with each approach, most of which involve one compromise or another including excessive time spen... | |
| CSPort vs TechDAS @chauncey this box set is very good, all analog reissue of 4 symphonies. very good sound. quiet pressings. worth finding. one of my frequent choices. https://store.acousticsounds.com/d/126823/Herbert_von_Karajan-Brahms_The_Four_Symphonies-Vinyl... | |
| CSPort vs TechDAS @chauncey for 8 years (2002--2011) i owned the Rockport Sirius III with vacuum hold down. very high level of execution. but it does add a level of complication to the design. fabulous turntable. i wish i still owned it. i am neutral about the e... | |
| The Snob Appeal Premium Here is the thing… if I buy a Lamborghini… there are some people that will be impressed when they see it heading down the road. On the other hand if I buy a pair of $100k snob appeal loudspeakers… virtually no one will notice them or give a cr$p... | |
| CSPort vs TechDAS not owned any Techdas turntables, but they are certainly fine products. heard them at shows. i have owned the CS Port LFT1 now for almost 5 years and to my ears prefer it’s music making presentation to the Techdas. greater ease and less of a mecha... |