Amir visit to Mike Lavigne place 2017

You miss my point reading my post from a negative angle...

My point is any room acoustics must be ideally designed for a specific chosen system, and almost all room can be improved...Why ? Because acoustics/psycho-acoustics rule, not the speakers/amp ...Why is this so ? Because great Hall acoustics dont work like small room acoustics...

My point is written clearly but you choose not to read it but instead transforming my intention in an alleged stupid insinuating critic about Lavigne room ...

Learn how to read ...I wrote it clearly : acoustics rules ...

If you put the top system of Lavigne in a living room it will not work at peak level...

In the same way you can design completely again a new acoustic room around his last chosen system and it will be improved...

That was my point ... Not Lavigne  critic ... His system is one of the best if not the best on audiogon and it is why i picked it as example ... Ask him about acoustics importance and perhaps you will get it  ...

facten

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03-09-2026 at 01:49pm 

@mahgister  "Or better, put the same system in a room designed acoustically for it in an improved way...( i dont say that Lavigne actual room is bad here but it can be improved as everything can )"

Have you visited to be so self assured that it doesn’t meet your acoustical standards? 

What I find interesting by reading Mike's comments in his system page is, he is still changing major parts of his equipment. Like selling his big towers to get horn speakers and moving on from multiple Dart Zeel pieces. It does show that even so he has reached what many would consider the pinnacle of sound,  upgraditis is a real medical condition.

As far as his room construction and acoustics are concerned, his methods played a major part in the building of my house of stereo and I will forever be grateful to him for having posted his process as referred to above by big_greg.

@mahgister

One doesn't need to be an acoustic "genius"  to know what you pontificate ad nauseam about. You missed my point as you claim I missed yours, so be it. I'll leave it there and simply ignore you in the future and you can do likewise with me . 

I prefer  to "pontificate" than to insinuate that the post of someone whose intention is clean and clear is to disparage another reputable system/room owner...

By the way i ignore no one... And i kept grudge against no one... Then i will answer even to your posts in the future because i will had forgot these posts... I remember only deep thoughts or interesting one... 

«My wife forgot everything when she is busy thinking»-- Groucho Marx 

@mahgister

One doesn’t need to be an acoustic "genius"  to know what you pontificate ad nauseam about. You missed my point as you claim I missed yours, so be it. I’ll leave it there and simply ignore you in the future and you can do likewise with me . 

upgraditis is a real medical condition.

@baylinor 

after 20 years with the same brand speakers and the same brand amplifiers (each upgraded once within the brand over that time), and now changing from solid state amplifiers to an SET, and considering changing to horns, is THAT upgrade-itis? 

what is the length of time required before changing is allowed? and who is the referee to make the call? or is my system direction controlled by municipal eminent domain and i’m not allowed to change?   

just checking in to make sure of my legal position on this. :-)