Amir visit to Mike Lavigne place 2017

I love the evolution aciustic speakers.i have the smaller set.they use accutron speakers ceramic with ribbons sound great.enjoy the music

Horns? Good choice.....Get a klipsch jubilee. It can fix the built up emotional repression caused by 50db low level audiophile listening (hearing the grass grow on a daily basis)....and make you a fun loving guy

You may also start to hear lil things in tracks that you....well, you're still a vinyl guy? ...lets not get into specifics and just say that your barn will come to life again.

You could also get a pair of Tekton Moab or Symphony as a second pair. At 5k/pair, it might be cheaper than your cable risers. It is always good to have different pairs of speakers, not put all your eggs, faith and loyalty in 1 basket....The latter can make you an even more fun loving guy, a playa...

Good luck, 

@mikelavigne wrote

@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? 

@deep_333 wrote:

Horns? Good choice.....Get a klipsch jubilee. It can fix the built up emotional repression caused by 50db low level audiophile listening (hearing the grass grow on a daily basis)....and make you a fun loving guy

Good one. 

As for the Jubilee’s themselves, I wasn’t too impressed by their presentation (and I’m being diplomatic here) at a recent exhibition. I’m sure, or rather hope much of it came down to the nature of the specific conditions in which they were placed, but you’d wonder how in the h... those who were responsible for setting them up could be oblivious to fact that they sounded... well, less than ideal. Less than good, even. It’s either a lazy ass effort, indifference and/or incompetence on the part of the ones involved, but I had hoped the Jubilee’s would have been able to meet them a bit more halfway, so to speak; that not being the case worries me..

Knowing that Mr. @mikelavigne isn’t one to take lightly the quality level of the speakers that are to inhabit his listening space in the future, and if my impression of the Jubilee’s is anything to go by, I would go on to recommend something I DO know sounds great, namely Vitavox speakers. No, not their über luxury iterations from the hands of Kevin Scott, i.e.: Living Voice, as the price of Vox Olympians/Palladium and Elysian/Basso subs will send any but the most wealthy of souls to their knees crying. Not to say that Vitavox speakers are anything less than VERY expensive, but at least more achievable. However sonically not much comes close to Vitavox, believe me.  

The jubilee is easily accessible to me. My physician got a pair and i can swing by his house any evening really and bother him. He’s running it with esoteric amps now. Set up is everything really, but, his stuff sounds quite nice...even in not the greatest room. Since i’m out of space these days, i get to live vicariously at the least through some of these guys for these kinds of things.

Some dealers indeed have the most incompetent setups. Lazy as hell and maybe they assume their client base is half-deaf too...

I like Avantegarde too, but, can’t get over their looks.

I think Mike’s in the US. You’re in Europe, aren’t you?  I  also mentioned Tekton earlier cos’ that guy can also do any kind of insane custom speaker. I was originally thinking getting some variant of a Tekton Bonneville, something with a horn array, but, prettier..probably not more than 2 or 2.5 feet wide and taller+deeper instead, not 4 feet wide ...I am also quite happy with my current horns as is, so, i could always lay low (if i took a forum/facebook hiatus, that may actually work, facepalm)....

@phusis  wrote

As for the Jubilee’s themselves, I wasn’t too impressed by their presentation (and I’m being diplomatic here) at a recent exhibition. I’m sure, or rather hope much of it came down to the nature of the specific conditions in which they were placed, but you’d wonder how in the h... those who were responsible for setting them up could be oblivious to fact that they sounded... well, less than ideal. Less than good, even. It’s either a lazy ass effort, indifference and/or incompetence on the part of the ones involved, but I had hoped the Jubilee’s would have been able to meet them a bit more halfway, so to speak; that not being the case worries me..