Mike Lavigne's SystemAntono,i'm no acoustics expert; but my room designer was. his perspective was that the 'Golden Ratio' was not a 'Holy Grail' of acoustics since frequency response does not 'scale'. in other... posted about 17 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's SystemAntono, thanks for the kind words. posted about 17 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's SystemAntonoyuwono,FYI,both my sets of Valhalla have the same serial number on both cables of the set. posted about 17 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's SystemAntonoyuwono,at this point i no longer own any XLR Valhalla, i do own 2 sets of RCA Valhalla. when i get home tonight i will look and see whether the serial number matches.....if i had to g... posted about 17 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's SystemHenry, hummmmmmmm. the quest never ends, does it.how can i not dream about the MM7's and the dart mono's? my room was made for the MM7's with all my bass trapping. the dart mono's a... posted about 17 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's SystemMcBrennan; thanks again for the comments.....the process in building the room was a labor of love. after 5 years i still look forward to listening to music in my room every day. getting the room/sy... posted about 17 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's SystemHi McBrennan,thanks for the kind words.the side and rear walls behind the speakers are large bass traps. the outside is acoustical fabric covered 1" Corning 703 semiridged fibreglas... posted about 17 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's SystemElberoth;yes; i did compare my 7 meter set of Valhalla XLR to the Zeel cable between the dart pre and amp; the Valhalla was very good, the Zeel slightly better in terms of dynamics, natural... posted about 17 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's SystemHi Aaron,no doubt slowing down my personal 'hurry, hurry' culture to use the Mint Lp is tedious. i want to listen right now. i can see how the third or fourth time i do it it will be easier... posted about 17 years ago | View comment | |
Albert Porter Technics SP10 MK3 Projectaren't the vacuum clamp-down systems built so that there is a very thin cushion of 'vacuum' between the platter and the record (other than where the rubber lips meet the vinyl)?<... posted about 17 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's Systembelow is something i just posted over on audioasylum which might be interesting. it's about a new cartridge alignment protractor i just purchased from Mint Lp. it's called the Best Tractor. it is c... posted about 17 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's SystemDgad,sorry for the delay in my response. to be honest; i have always been a bit uneducated on the whole resonate frequency--arm/cartridge matching issue. as a result of your post i did some... posted about 17 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's Systema few posts above i mention that i have been playing with the dampning trough on the Rockport. this is a resonance control device for the linear tracking arm on the Rockport.....which is used to 't... posted about 17 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's Systemhi Dave,yes; my 2-25-09 post above refers to my impressions of the software upgrade. this was the 'first' version of the upgrade. jtinn's been after me to redo it with the newer version but... posted about 17 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's SystemLuigi, many thanks for sharing Herve's e-mails.no doubt the new mono's will sound wonderful. $75k+ was more than i was expecting.....but not 'lots' more.....i knew they would be up ... posted about 17 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's SystemBigamp, we can guess about the price of the new dart monos but i have not heard anything about it yet.regarding the new tt's; as you have a Dobbins/Garrard 301/Triplaner too i don't need to... posted about 17 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's SystemLuigi,thanks for sharing Herve's response; it was what i expected. yes; we all start saving.....Tuboo,i just read the NHB-108 manual and did read about the toggle for low an... posted about 17 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's SystemElescher, thanks.i prefer Herve's 'zeel' cable by a small margin to my Valhalla and even my Transparent Opus MM2. it's a bit more 'not there' with no color or signature whatsoever.....and i... posted over 17 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's Systemi just noticed i mistakenly wrote the Version B of the amp had Balanced "outputs".....obviously, an amplifier would have Balanced "inputs". sorry. posted over 17 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's SystemTuboo,i assume you are refering to the Stereo amplifier darTZeel NHB-108. the earliest NHB-108's did not have balanced outputs; and there were medium efficiency speakers which these earlies... posted over 17 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's SystemLapierre; yes; i had a Studer tech, Fred Thal, refurb my Studer A820. he had it for 9 months. Fred is the moderator of 'The Studer List'. it was not cheap but i think it was worth it.i also... posted over 17 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's Systemi've been really enjoying the music lately.the Playback Designs MPS-5 has had a software upgrade which has taken the redbook to another level. the difference is small in the sense that it w... posted over 17 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's SystemWavetrader; thanks for the kind words. your use of the word cacoon brings back the design phase of the room. in my talks with the room designer we spoke of 'cacooning' the room in a sandwit... posted over 17 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's Systemthe new Dart mono's should be really exciting.i am curious to the design and how many transistors are beeing used at the output.the stereoamp has only one pair of transis... posted over 17 years ago | View comment | |
Mike Lavigne's SystemMicrostrip,i did hear the DCS Scarlatti at RMAF but i don't recall that is was with the darTZeel. i would guess either the Puccini or Scarlatti would sound very nice with the dart.i... posted over 17 years ago | View comment |