mikelavigne
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| "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... | |
| How easily can you distinguish between different DACs? @audiodwebe comparing dacs is a step in system building. but for instance, having speakers and amps that are competent to reveal differences is a requirement to hear dac differences. or if you are using headphones, the quality of the headphones ... | |
| Speakers 10 years old or older that can compete with todays best, This is not to say Mike’s room does not sound good but he does stubbornly refuse to make it sound better @mijostyn not doing dsp is not refusing to make things better; you are blind to a different approach. after building the room and taking ... | |
| Speakers 10 years old or older that can compete with todays best, Not to unnecessarily stir up the "why no DSP?"-question that appears to have been aimed your way already as an option with your system, but have you - in the analogue domain with an electronic crossover - experimented with an outboard active conf... | |
| Speakers 10 years old or older that can compete with todays best, @mijostyn we have already kicked this can around completely. nothing more to say about it. look up our last go around and read my responses. i have 8000-9000 Lps pressed prior to the late 70’s. and a couple thousand reissues since then without ... | |
| Speakers 10 years old or older that can compete with todays best, Instead of knowing you have the best possible system, waste time and money searching for something better. @mijostyn Honestly, i’m not searching. My speaker builder wants me to buy the new version. Im not really doing anything to make that hap... | |
| Speakers 10 years old or older that can compete with todays best, You might just surprise yourself. DEQX is recruiting 120 audiophiles to beta test the programming of their new processor, the Pre 8. It has a programmable 4 way digital crossover in it. Retail in the US is going to be $13K but they are giving the... | |
| Speakers 10 years old or older that can compete with todays best, Somewhere I heard you were trying to sell them? @mijostyn i did list them for sale on Audiogon for a couple of months, my ad makes it clear i’m good whether they sell or not. honestly i am torn, and all my friends think i’m nuts to sell them... | |
| Speakers 10 years old or older that can compete with todays best, my now 11 years old Evolution Acoustics MM7’s certainly still hold up against the other current top level offerings. and i mean any/all of them. https://www.evolutionacoustics.com/loudspeakers/mm-series/mmseven/ they are -3db down at 7hz, and -6... | |
| Why would someone feel the need to comment unpleasant things on sale posts web based social media realities do also invade the hifi forum space. people are really brave in front of a keyboard. there are many degrees of complaining, of course. and shades of decorum. i just retried from managing a large Honda Dealership f... | |
| How are we wiring our Mono systems? ----wire it the same. ----assuming you already have a stereo system, then for many reasons just keep using that for mono. you already have a good quality (the best you have been able to assemble) signal path. if you try to throw together a comple... | |
| Unreal Reel to Reel 'Tourbillon' by custom art designer Metaxas of Metaxas and Sins as a reel to reel tape enthusiast, i heartily applaud a new ’ground-up’ reel to reel deck, and the obvious investment and commitment it takes to actually deliver a product. gives this part of the hobby some real juice. so Bravo Metaxas! and those... |