mikelavigne
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| When was the last time when serious new instrument was invented ? Jimi Hendrix kinda did. a few others helped too. but Jimi did the heavy lifting. | |
| Electric Recording Company i guess i'm glad the Electric Recording Company exists. i admire their approach and all analog commitment. they have some great titles. i own one and it's good, but not super. all that said, the sound from ERC pressings i have heard is not nearly ... | |
| Help me understand the current amp market My system is actually in my home office and consists of Wisdom Audio L8i in-wall speakers with a Wisdom Audio SCS-2 subwoofer. the Wisdoms are 91db, 4 ohm. so a medium efficiency speaker. and if your system is in your home office, i’m assuming ... | |
| Sound stage of studio recordings this somewhat depends on the era of the recording. and the musical genre. prior to the mid 60's most studio recording processes were more simple, and it's more likely that performers are where the recording places them, and that minimal or no man... | |
| Tracks that bring out the best of YOUR digital system "Rooster", Alice In Chains, Unplugged Album (much better recording than the original) ’Sounds of Silence’, Geoff Castellucci ’Smells Like Teen Spirit", Trevor Horn/Jack Lukeman need lots of deep, articulate, undistorted bass energy to fully app... | |
| From Rossini Apex to ???? consider a Wadax. no, not the Level 4 $300k beast i have in my room, the new at Munich........Wadax STUDIO PLAYER. get Wadax magic around $35k retail. was the talk of the show. https://wadax.eu/ | |
| Favorite moment with music in your car. spring break from College in 1971, driving down Highway 101 from Grant’s Pass, Oregon to Crescent City, California through the coastal mountains in my 1964 MGB convertible with my college roommate. It had been raining all the way from Seattle, we ... | |
| Need a 4 way electronic crossover right now the state of the art for analog crossovers is the CS Port ACN400. but it’s not cheap. if you want a cheap one it will likely need to be digital, or a cheap pro-audio product from a web site like Sweetwater. https://www.csport.audio/prod... | |
| Considering Revising My Tonearms. Input On This Option Considered @neonknight looks like you have an assembly of nice arms and a couple of nice turntables. they can all do the job. but........if you are trying to go to the next level, debatable whether switching around combinations from your current collection... | |
| Tube vs Solid state for Preamp i’d say it’s a mistake to try to generalize about tube or solid state preamps having better or worse bass. amplifier-speaker relationships would be more dominant for bass performance than particular preamps. easier to make a case that past a cert... | |
| Glanz toners for dummies don’t know about the 9 inch versions, but last year i purchased a Glanz MH-1200S for my Sumile Mono cartridge. it’s mounted on my Esoteric T1 turntable as the 3rd arm. https://glanz.tech/e/collection/mh1200s1000s900s/ build quality is superb, an... | |
| Looking for the next level in imaging... is it possible to break down or quantify the importance of the different components and room design and tuning? For example—and I am just throwing out numbers as examples—would it be 30% room design, acoustics and tuning (to get a holographic im... | |
| Looking for the next level in imaging... +100 on over treating being better than under treating. Especially in smaller rooms where control is even more important. @ronboco i spent years optimizing the imaging in my large dedicated room, and holographic imaging is very important to m... | |
| Looking for the next level in imaging... Martin Logan’s do space and purity, but like omni’s are not ideal for organically solid full frequency imaging. one reason is that the mid and lower bass uses dynamic drivers, a different type of driver, so the coherency in the low frequencies is ... | |
| Music first or sound first? @patrickdowns it's always important to not take ourselves too seriously. and have fun. life is short. |