mikelavigne
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| What should be mandatory in every professional published review- nothing should be mandatory in a (professional) review. zero. nada. other than stuff like editing for effective and entertaining writing. i want no intrusion from any entity regarding review content. i want it up to me, the reader, to judge the ... | |
| Do You Tell Others How Much You Have Invested in Your System? i don’t even bring up my hobby to ’civilians’, but some friends know about it, some fellow workers know about it, and my family knows. but few have been in my room which is in a separate building from my house. if they ask me about the investment... | |
| Field coil dava cartridge @dover constant minor side load is not as big a deal as sudden heavy side load. Bruce might have forgot to mention (i did not read your linked info) that linear trackers do also require precise set-up or they can put much more stress on the sty... | |
| Field coil dava cartridge Jonathan Tinn owns both and he or Mike could let us know what he thinks about both @bonzo75 here is all you need to know about Jonathan’s opinion. his DS Audio is for sale......but not his DaVa. he did tell me he likes both cartridges, but wh... | |
| Opinions on the pro's and con's on Ceramic Drivers..... as a driver material, ceramic has advantages in terms of stiffness and very high power to weight ratios. it can theoretically stay more linear. so it’s going to be the fastest and most agile material possible for a dynamic driver. not all ceramic... | |
| Field coil dava cartridge @rauliruegas i think Bonzo is just teasing you. and he is amused by your responses, not frustrated. you are not holding him back from anything. it is your right, anyone’s right, to dismiss any product without hearing it. but when a product stop... | |
| Turntable isolation @nhmanmtb back 12-14 years ago i purchased 4 turntables from Steve Dobbins, Xact Audio. three were vintage tt’s (Technics SP-10 Mk2, Mk3, and a Garrard 301) with tweaking and plinths built by Steve, and one was his Kodo ’The Beat’. all used Stil... | |
| Turntable isolation This the ultimate isolation both vertically and laterally. Nothing else comes close. There are painfully few other options that really work. Most of it is just wishful thinking. @mijostyn i use the Taiko Tana active resonance control system u... | |
| Turntable isolation mostly mixing different passive isolation devices is not the best idea. think of adding an additional suspension below your current automobile suspension. the result would be unpredictable. therefore it’s likely that the best result is to not add ... | |
| DSP vs New Cables ?? you just cannot generalize. to me dsp would be an alternative to room treatments for 2 channel, not cables. consider maybe a product such as GIK treatments as an alternative to dsp for 2 channel. https://www.gikacoustics.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIh... | |
| Mahler on vinyl - your favorite the Bernstein Mahler Box Set is a great place to start. either CD’s, or file download, or streaming (Tidal and Quboz both have this complete set), or the Lp Box Set.....you can’t go too far wrong. https://www.discogs.com/master/1193298-Gustav-Mah... | |
| Why do so many sellers take offense to offers on their listings? i’m the GM of a large Honda Automobile Dealership. over 48 years in the car business i’ve managed the sale of around 150,000 cars......one at a time. i don’t take low offers personally. OTOH many of my customers take everything personally. so whe... | |
| The character of analog and digital far away from wanting to prove you wrong! I am just pointing out that digital would have to have a fundamental problem yet to be identified to be eternally inferior to vinyl. @antigrunge2 let’s just say, digital won’t quite equal vinyl in my ... | |
| The character of analog and digital your postulate of asymptotical closing of the gap between vinyl and digital seems counterfactual: vinyl suffers from distortions simply not present in digital, e.g. tracking angle on conventional tone arms, warp and flutter depending on pressing ... | |
| The character of analog and digital in a perfect world, digital should be close to ’of a piece’ with analog. in other words, you ought to be able to switch back and forth from digital to analog/vinyl or analog/vinyl to digital and while the analog/vinyl is farther down the road to s... |