Mike Lavigne's Systemi have the new dart monoblocks on the way here to my home for a short trial; they'll be here Tuesday. posted over 16 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's SystemIdos,e-mail me and i will connect you with my friend (who is now working in Siberia) who built these and he can expalin his approach to you. my only caution is to build them out of ... posted over 16 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's Systemi was only at CES (the Venetian) for about 4 hours on Saturday afternoon, and then only early Saturday am and early Sunday am at T.H.E. Show at the Flamingo. So my perceptions are not in any way co... posted over 16 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's SystemIdos,thanks for the details. i'll bet the gas company scratched their head a bit with how it happened. a few years ago i heard (felt) the ... posted over 16 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's SystemJake,thanks, and i hope you are having a happy new year too.Steve Dobbins went thru my SP-10 Mk3 power supply and did whatever needed to be done. i'm not sure he did what Albert's t... posted over 16 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's SystemI'm the guy of legend that once broke a Gas main in the street while testing a Sub-Woofer system!there must be a good story behind that statement. i'm re... posted over 16 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's Systemadditional note; the existing structure is a 6" studwall on 12" centers with a sandwitch of 5/8" sheetrock 1/2" soundboard 5/8" sheetrock over the whole room including the ceiling except fo... posted over 16 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's Systemi've been investigating some room issues and have come up with a firm planned 'next step' to solve them. i'm very excited because this approach should fix the problems at the source and allow for t... posted over 16 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's SystemSam, hard to comment on that other than it's a nice thing to say and thanks. posted over 16 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's Systemcorrection; my memory of David Beetles' comments on the arm affective mass ideal for the Verito 'Z' was wrong, here are his comments;I find Verito having a very low compl... posted over 16 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's Systemnote; i want to thank Allnic, David Beetles, and Steve Dobbins for their free exchange program for Allnic Verito 'Z' owners. in their quest to satisfy the buyers of the Verito Z cartridge, they are... posted over 16 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's SystemDgad, sorry to hear that the Colibri's are not working for you. for 7 years they were the best pieces of audio gear i had ever heard. hard to say what the issues are with them.the Titan i s... posted over 16 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's SystemSam,yes, i'm pretty stoked about how things are sounding with the Rockport, really all the turntables.yes, i'm getting closer to doing my long awaited bass trap adjustments in my ro... posted over 16 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's SystemI have never posted in this forum before, and just signed up for an Audiogon account, but I guess it takes 8 hours for it to be verified, so I have forwarded this message to my father Mike.... posted over 16 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's SystemIdos, my gear (speakers, amp, preamp, speaker cables) has been essentially the same for almost 4 years....and was the same prior to the damage to my 'precious' Colibri. OTOH there has been enough e... posted over 16 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's Systemsince 2002 the center-piece of my system has been the Rockport Sirius III turntable. for the first 5 years i owned the Rockport i used a particular vdH Colibri XCP cartridge. i loved that cartridge... posted over 16 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's SystemMike, it was great that you and Patty and your boys could visit....always great to see you. Your (big) boys are such gentleman and respectful.....must be your wife's influence. ;)it's neat ... posted over 16 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's Systema few weeks back, i mentioned i had removed quite a bit of the silicone dampening fluid from the dampening trough on the Rockport. it had been blunting and blurring things with the Olympos. last ni... posted over 16 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's SystemSam & Sonny,thanks for the kind comments, and you are very welcome.it was a very enjoyable time for me too. i'm glad you had a good safe trip and that you were able to connect with ... posted over 16 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's Systemfurther impressions of the Technics SP-10 Mk2--Reed 'L' 12" with the A90......as compared to the Garrard--Triplaner--A90. about 6-7 hours. dialed in more, running 2.27 grams and slightly up in the ... posted over 16 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's SystemOK, just mounted the 2nd Ortofon MC A90 cartridge (ser# 079) on the Dobbins Technics SP-10 Mk3 with Reed 'L' arm playing thru the Allnic H3000. previously i had briefly mounted my first A90 (ser# 0... posted over 16 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's SystemThanks Vito,i miss the time my kids were younger (and needed me), enjoy every minute of it.....it's over very quickly. pride as a parent is the best feeling there is.i will let you ... posted over 16 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's Systemthanks Vito. the high rez downloads do sound very good thru the Playbacks Designs.Would love to integrate witha music server capable of downloading HiRez music. (... posted over 16 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's Systemthanks Jason, i will look forward to your feedback.as far as background history of digital products; here is a little on the Playback Designs' designer for you; posted over 16 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's Systemhi Jason,a couple of years ago i moved on from my EMM Labs SE digital gear to Playback Designs MPS-5. i'm sorry i have not updated my Audiogon equipment list for a couple of years (my pictu... posted over 16 years ago | View comment |