mikelavigne
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| Are warm or colored speakers disrespectful of musicians/producer/engineers? only if that gear makes you not want to spend money on new media.respect = causing commercial success of the recordings. likely i would not much agree with many pro audio guys, but if they viewed my media spend i would be their best friend. they d... | |
| Tone Arm for Miyajima Zero i own 2 Miyajima Infinity monos, one 1.0 mil, and the other 0.7 mil.i have each of mine on Durand unipivots; one on my 12" Telos standard with wood arm wand, and the other on the Kairos 10.35". both arms handle the beastly Infinities wonderfully. | |
| Help my analog sound as good as my streaming you got it; you need to see if you can go to a local dealer or someone where you can hear decent quality analog, before you invest in it.it might be you still prefer the streaming. it’s not hard to acquire good streaming. good analog has a higher ... | |
| Best Server To Run Roon Core music reproduction performance never is a price/value/performance linear proposition. in any format.neither is wine, scotch, or sailboats.....race cars or airplanes.and the Taiko Extreme is not $35k either. in the universe of $50k--$150k dacs, $10... | |
| Best Server To Run Roon Core if you actually want the best possible server for Roon core, then that would be the Taiko Audio SGM Extreme. it’s a 100 pound beast.https://taikoaudio.com/taiko-2020/product/sgm-extreme-high-end-music-server/you will wait 6 weeks for it (there is ... | |
| What makes speaker's sound big? i find that scale to music comes from the speakers being properly matched to the room so the music can breathe. the music needs to be able to properly open up and become coherent. then the speakers and amps also need to be properly matched. and to... | |
| Room acoustics - Spending and sound videos i’m in the middle of the ordering process with GIK for my separate Home Theater room and got those same videos.i’ve spent the last 16 years tweaking my dedicated acoustically designed 2 channel room so i have some level of understanding about room... | |
| Will Step Up Transformer Improve the Sound Quality? @millercarbon In general though I think unless it is a very low output cartridge then the odds are about equal to screw it up as make it better. it was great to listen with you Friday night, enjoyed meeting your wife.just FYI, everything you hear... | |
| How to go about collecting Classical Music don’t collect it, stream it.i’m 69 years old, and love Classical Music. i do happen to own plenty of Classical CD’s, SACD’s, and vinyl.but if i was jumping into it now i would absolutely put streaming Roon + Quboz + Tidal at the top of my list. th... | |
| Mono vs. Stereo another aspect of mono vinyl playback is the groove size. early wide groove mono’s are optimized with a 1.0 mil stylus, later (after the mid 60’s) cut with a stereo cutter head are optimal with a 0.7 mil stylus. it makes a significant difference i... | |
| 6000 dollars CD player i’d buy this one for that price range.https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/649699193-dcs-puccini-sacd-player-silver-120v-ac-input/don’t know the seller; just noticed it yesterday and then just saw this thread. i had been thinking if i wanted to spi... | |
| "Musical" subwoofers? Advice please on comparing JL subs in phase and in time matters at all frequencies, if we are talking optimization. how perfect do you want it? mostly this matters as a result of how dynamic we expect to run our systems. at low SPL’s no doubt time is less an issue since the negativ... | |
| Tim deParavicini has passed away wow! very sad news. R.I.P. Tim. he touched many aspects of our high fidelity lives when you consider all his modifications to the recording and mastering gear.i owned a dPv modified Technics RS-1700 RTR deck for a number of years. fine sounding un... | |
| I'm pretty excited about my new room i'm building hey Ray,congrats on the very fun and satisfying process of room building. i loved it for my room. i’ve now been in my purpose built room for 16 years, and it only took 10 years, and lots of changes to my supposedly 'perfect' room, to figure it out... | |
| pre-amps for home theatre....whats your preference? my 2 channel credentials are tip top. i’m as dedicated a 2 channel/analog guy as there is. yet.......i’ve just jumped up from the ’nice’ Anthem AVM60 7.1.4 processor in my separate Home Theater, to the big boy very serious Trinnov Altitude 16 dsp ... |