mikelavigne
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| Best Full-Function Preamplifier used darTZeel NHB-18NS Mk1. includes a very fine phono stage. battery powered. volume attenuation with optical couplers. Swiss built like a tank. i owned the Mk1 version from 2006--2015, it’s awesome. i believe the Mk1 can still be upgraded to ... | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. i take the long view if we are talking greatest, and not from a musical theory perspective. more culturally and longevity, as well as great music and performance too. what songs will the western world still be listening to and singing in 100 year... | |
| Am I wasting money on the theory of Bi-amping? bi-amping, in my experience, is best with 4 identical channels of amplification and a speaker allowing separate low octave and upper octave inputs. the reason is my priority is always coherency first and foremost. and if the amps for upper and low... | |
| How tall do you like your images? @erik_squires Having the proper balance of direct and indirect arrivals is critical, and one reason why I feel most audiophiles don’t use diffusion behind and to the sides of speakers enough. Too many still focus on dampening alone and that cre... | |
| How tall do you like your images? @erik_squires Also, the ideal height for some speakers is below the tweeter axis. B&W often does this, some do this by accident. Ear at tweeter axis / height is a starting point, the sweet spot is often below the tweeter. and proper toe i... | |
| How tall do you like your images? @deep_333 check out this video on upmixing from audioholics watched the video. not sure his up-mixing comments are relevant to my situation. he starts talking about using a multi-channel receiver or processor as a preamp. and his comments see... | |
| noise on the line oops, just realized that Rex might be on a sailing trip 'off shore' the next few weeks. so if you reach out to him there might be a delayed response. | |
| noise on the line the real story is how much of that noise is from your own house. and fixing your noise issues are most times much, much cheaper than buying an audiophile power conditioner and trying to treat the problems your house is creating. fix what can be f... | |
| DAC Vibrations? every circuit in your signal path will be effected by mechanical resonance, and it will end up as part of the noise floor. it depends on the system ambient noise and gear noise floor how much it will be audible. and mostly you won’t know the effec... | |
| What Are The Differences Between The Vandenhul Cartridge Families i’ve owned 10 vdH Colibri ’type’ van den Huls over the years. starting in 2001. owned 7 back in 2001--2011, then another 3 in 2016-2018. my early group did have a consistent nomenclature using symbols for body type, body material, and winding mat... | |
| dacs that I have had in my system - a listing @jjss49 wow!!! amazing list! agree with all the comments and do think you can be a resource for many with all your experience. took a minute to make my list, but it’s a 22 year list......not 4 years. OTOH my turntable//tonearm/cartridge/phono ... | |
| Magico's M9 @deep_333 i do appreciate you taking the time to comment on your Magico experiences. i can mostly relate. i could never wrap my head around the Magico sound, until two years ago when i spent a couple days at a local audio show where they had the... | |
| Magico's M9 @deep_333 so tell us details about what you did hear with the M9, what was special, and what it did not do for you. how it compared to others. and where you heard it. ignore the price and the look....if that is ok? | |
| Magico's M9 the 'look'? the 'price'? yawn. double yawn. thanks for nothing. not much brain power needed for those sorts of flippant comments. i do appreciate any comments on the performance. thank you. and thank you to Magico for the efforts to build such a... | |
| Anyone See Downside to an Ionizer blowing on Turntable? on my 3 tt's i use -2- CS Port IME1 units, and 1 DS Audio Ion 001. the DS Audio is a bit more effective, but much more difficult to position effectively. it's about how your shelf and plinth are positioned, which one works better. both of these u... |