mikelavigne
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| AXPONA 2024 The Gobel/Wadax room is always disappointing as there is so much money there and some of the smaller systems sound way better than this room. People seem to get all goo-goo eyed about the expensive equipment - I went in Friday/Saturday/Sunday to ... | |
| AXPONA 2024 i enjoyed Axpona 2024, and i'm glad i went. i did take pictures of all the rooms listed below. here is a link to those. https://www.whatsbestforum.com/threads/axpona-24%E2%80%99-mike-lavigne-pics.38610/ it was awesome to see the level of attend... | |
| Adona Equipment Racks i owned -4- Adona ’Zero’ GXT racks for the last 12 years in my ’no-holds-barred’ system. you can see pictures on my system page. here is the model i had. two of mine were 4 shelf, and two were 3 shelf. i sold them for 60% of what retail was when ... | |
| Opinions about Daniel Hertz @jjss49 Red Rose was mostly a re-branding of "Audio Prism", made in the USA (by friends of mine noted in the below article from 1999). those USA products were definitely not in that mechanical ’etched’ sounding category. https://www.stereophile... | |
| Opinions about Daniel Hertz @jc51373 i have zero opinion about ML’s Daniel Hertz venture, one way or another. never had any interest to even look into it. OTOH i do have a couple long term friends who were in that group of his "contentious business relationships". i heard ... | |
| Qualities Of An End-game System "End Game" seems like a variable term defined by expectations. reaching expectations is the end. so my 'end game' would be different than yours. OTOH an 'ultimate system' might have certain commonalities, which i would agree include hearing the... | |
| You tube hifi influencers. Love them or hate them? the odds of (1) an experienced audiophile (2) with high level gear and (3) music experience also having the (4) motivation, (5) personality and (6) technical knowledge to do YouTube commenting (6) effectively is remote. if they are already in the ... | |
| Let the best be your guide I think the trick is to be able to enjoy great performances where the recording is less than ideal. where the system pulls the good stuff out and allows it to come through even where there are flaws. so much pop/rock/??? is not especially natural ... | |
| 20 Years? Feb 11, 2001 for me as my official join date. 23 years. i hung around Audiogon for maybe a year before i joined when i wasn't on Audio Asylum. i miss the days when the system page threads were mingled with the other thread topics and system deve... | |
| Is more amp power always better...? this is one of those "all things being equal" situations. where yes, more power is always better if the amps are otherwise equal. the reason for that is that amps sound better when they have headroom, meaning they are operating in their lowest str... | |
| Did your system getting better the more money you spent or more experience you gained? you are not born with a high level of system building knowledge and great judgment. it’s a process. it’s starts with a passion and hunger to have great music reproduction and a love of music. the way it works is that (1) at the entry level you do... | |
| Building a dedicated listening room my room is an oval, no 90 degree corners. lots of built in diffusion. the ceiling is also irregular so standing waves don't get supported. however; it is very important to have an absolutely symmetrical room, if you want your soundstage to approa... | |
| Building a dedicated listening room thanks @patrickdowns when I read that now 19 year old article, I get very uncomfortable. building a room is a very exciting opportunity to do the one thing that very few get a chance to do. make the room right. to begin with I was in lust with m... | |
| Ultimate Turntable search...OMA K5 or ? The wonderful thing with the UK and Europe, is that there are still options to walk into a premises and share in experiences as seen in the Video Clip, or have ones very similar. these things happen in the USA when there are established relatio... | |
| Ultimate Turntable search...OMA K5 or ? it is rather a bargain at less than $100K. @lewm the AS-2000 is more than $100k by the value of a nice turntable (fill in the blank). and only sold direct, if there are any left to purchase (my sense is that there is no further inventory). Pe... |