mikelavigne
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| 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... | |
| 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... |