mikelavigne
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| If I could afford, I’d purchase 100% Oswald Mills Audio gear @lewm Mike, have you heard the K3 or are you extrapolating from your vast prior experience as to its sonic character? Also, would you care to mention which of your turntables wins the sustain trophy? I’m guessing it’s a belt drive type. my take is... | |
| If I could afford, I’d purchase 100% Oswald Mills Audio gear i will add that i enthusiastically applaud OMA’s efforts to build their vision of a SOTA turntable. and even admire their road less traveled. i’m glad to be a vinyl lover at a time when these type products exist and that we have the marketplace to... | |
| Power Down Sequence for Amp / TT to Avoid Speaker Pop you should develop a consistent sequence for system power up and turn off. including grounding your self prior to touching anything to drain any static charge you may carry. and that should always be turning "on" , first touching something, then f... | |
| How important is the pre-amp? as far as volume attenuation, easily the best i’ve heard is on the battery powered darTZeel NHB-18NS; there is no potentiometer or resistor network in line with the audio, volume control being by passive attenuation governed by a dedicated process... | |
| If I could afford, I’d purchase 100% Oswald Mills Audio gear as a consumer of expensive turntables, i’m a candidate for the K3. what does that mean? if sufficiently motivated, i could re-task some of my hifi system assets into the K3. (not suggesting that there are not others here that could also buy a K3, ... | |
| How important is the pre-amp? ing@azwineguy Dare I ask if it is possible to get decent sound from a home theater preamp? sound quality is a combination of a number of things. on this forum with it’s 2 channel focus signal path’s need to be as pure as possible (including the m... | |
| How important is the pre-amp? you cannot generalize about the importance of preamps as the contribution of preamps to the system performance is all about context and the resolution of the system.at modest levels of gear preamps are limitations to performance as they add cables... | |
| System building; a meditation @sandthemall Anyway, I believe the room is like a fingerprint. Even if you build a dedicated listening room, you are simply building a better fingerprint. Symmetry helps but nothing neutral about it. But, yes it would be nice to have a dedicated l... | |
| System building; a meditation @dcevans Mike— where might I find the article you wrote that Patrick referenced? i wrote this article in 2004. honestly building the room was simple compared to how much i had to learn and grow, with lots of mistakes along the way, to finally ge... | |
| Is it ever enough? i’m at that end game point in my system building journey......and am about to retire in a year or so. so it’s asset allocation time. do i want to continue to have as much in my hifi commitment (including my separate hifi building), or do i cash in... | |
| System building; a meditation @patrickdowns Hi. I have bookmarked and PDF'd the article which details the build you did of your listening room in your barn and have re-read it many times. Amazing room and system -- to die for. I recall it's in the PNW where I am, and if you w... | |
| System building; a meditation Bill, i think what we call ’coloration’ has a wide variance from person to person like you say. maybe it comes down to expectations for big music. when i had my Koetsu RSP for 10 years, or my Lamm ML3’s for 6 months, neither would be my answer for... | |
| System building; a meditation since i jumped away from Mark Levinson and Wilson Audio in 2001, into Kharma speakers and Tenor OTL amplifiers, my guiding principle of system building has been to get the system out of the way of the music. and when i make a change in gear, or ro... | |
| why do so many discussions turn contentious? frequent posters here bring their baggage and agenda’s with them, which is the opposite of seeking knowledge or good intensions.running jokes on other threads quickly fill up space on new ones.....for people with no lives outside Audiogon.threads ... | |
| The value of embellishment? wood......leather.....wool.....cotton.....paper.i do find that natural materials can do positive things for sound. but it's so contextual that hard to make absolute statements.these materials are tools and are valid things to use. |