mikelavigne
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| Goodbye Everyone @elliottbnewcombjr always enjoyed your posts. best wishes to a fellow retiree, keep finding fun and comradery. someplace. we all need that. as a 20+ year Audiogon’er i miss the days where the system pages were mixed into the other thread posts ... | |
| Anyone has a reference system where amplification is SS ? Tubes = distortion + noise. They do not belong in a reference system. @helomech not all tube amps are created equal, and not all listeners have the same system aspirations, not all rooms are the same size, and not all speakers need the same... | |
| Anyone has a reference system where amplification is SS ? What kind of music do you mostly listen to ? @inna everything. i graduated from High School in 1969, so i’m first a 60’s and 70’s rock guy and do listen to that some. but i’ve grown over the last 30 years to love jazz and classical. and over ... | |
| Anyone has a reference system where amplification is SS ? When I say reference I don’t mean Pass amps with some lower end Wilson speakers. Just because you have a good sound doesn’t mean necessarily that it is a reference sound. There are preferences and subjective elements and there is also objectivity.... | |
| "I'm a believer" I’ve been around high end audio for a great number of years. I have had the opportunity to hear, at shows, at audiophile friends homes and at audio shops, a great number of high end speakers: old and new, from the low, to the ultra megabuck price... | |
| Anyone has a reference system where amplification is SS ? is this a tube verses solid state thread? must be a slow day at work for the original poster. wants to watch a food fight. | |
| Speaker Efficiency what are you gaining? and what are you losing? when you put a low powered mismatched amp to a hard to drive speaker???? how large is your room? how loud do you listen? how close do you sit? how important is space and scale and the lowest octave? ... | |
| What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'? some amps are about the sound; meaning you are more aware of pieces of the sound....bass.....detail.....high frequencies.....maybe impact and aggressive beat. it might sound very clean and even scrubbed a little. note decay can be clipped. certain... | |
| What percentage of digital vs. analog? To those who have large classical record collections, what percentage of the time do you spend listening to your records? i own about 5000 Classical pressings, of my total approximately 12,000 pressing collection. and my vinyl listening is 75% ... | |
| Anyone else using slugs instead of fuses? Comments on metals used and sound please i don’t use slugs in place of fuses, although my amplifiers come with thermal couplers instead of fuses. which eliminates the noise factor there. and my preamp is battery powered so no fuses there either. what i did do relevant to slugs is my Equ... | |
| "The Ultra High-End Speaker." Ask Lavigne what role play his room in his sound quality experience and say to him that he throw his money out of the window with his room , all we need is the higher price tag and synergy between components .... you don’t need a custom designe... | |
| "The Ultra High-End Speaker." my opinion is that you can achieve ultra high end sound with Revel Salon 2’s. given the appropriate sized room, meticulously treated, top notch power grid, solid well matured signal path and superior sources. there is nothing about a Salon 2 hold... | |
| Does a record player make that much of a difference?? hi Josh, there are levels of performance for turntable packages like you have, and also for the individual parts of the whole system; platter/plinths, arms, cartridges, phono cables, and even phono cables. there are not strict dollar values to th... | |
| Golden Ears? there is a physiological aspect to listening, which results in diminished high frequency audibility as we age. but there is also a learning aspect to music listening with more practice. and the process and refining of listening critically is somet... | |
| Ken Fritz stereo system auction is live... best wishes with the auction, hope you have good action. i spoke to Ken on the phone a few times over the years and met him at an audio show once. we had some things in common in our levels of commitment to system building but he was beyond me fo... |