Why, ohhhh why DO I LOVE this very turntable from 1954?
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Denon DP-26 by Soundlabo
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From A to Z - those where the days...
... tubes-wise...
... many of the materials are quite poisonous and not allowed in current industrial productions.
WOW!
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Bach is Bach!
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Musical silk-screen
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Organic
There is a so subtle pleasure in listening to Miles' Bitches Brew on Tandberg 9200-XD through the old trusty Tandberg 114-116-8 speakers...
The overall sound makes music so enjoyable and no brainer, like when a younger me was, simply and plainly, enjoying music at the radio and later on the first audio system.
At the time I was only a music lover, not an audiophile... so curious and hungry of new music...
The 9,5 cm/s Bitches Brew flows better than any Blue Ray disk I'm aware of... strange enough, it's not a matter of frequency range and distortion percentage, but it concerns music: the musical intensity is almost painful, intense, the sound isn't more important than music.
My limited vocabulary makes me sadly not able to better describe the sense of complete aural-comfort-ness... when Miles with his unique gravely voice sweetly call for "John" (McLaughlin)'s guitar its an epiphany: it seems the mix to be different from vinyl or CD, as the balance is so intellegible and communicative!
It's organic.
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Bitches Brew revamped!
If someone doesn't have this...
... it's time to grab it!
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Maria Kazantseva visited Studietto
... such a pleasure...
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Jordan Watts
I never, ever experienced a better crating when getting any kind of stuffs from Ebay...
I love Jordan Watts'... they are incredibly musical vintage speakers, truly magnifying audio lenses.
Grab them while still available and humanly priced.
They're really superb sounding, indeed!
Grab them while still available and humanly priced.
They're really superb sounding, indeed!
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Ken Kessler's tapes addiction
I was well aware that maestro Kessler was a pre-recorded tapes avid collector and user... but this is the very first time I see his audio system and impressive tapes library...
Read the full article here... enjoy.
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The Art Ensemble of Chicago's definitive ECM collection
Santa's coming, so... here is a 21 disks collection of AEoC's by ECM...
Grab it!
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Christmas' Yard Sale - on consignment (part 1)
Selling from the estate of a good friend family, a gorgeous Technics SP-10 "BBC" I made for him years ago, nicknamed "The White Whale"...
It's a top conditions SP-10 which was carefully dismantled, cleaned and whose chassis was professionally painted with automotive paint in butter white, à la Garrard 301.
A nice plinth was bespoke-made and a 10" Fidelity Research 64-S was added to the combo.
The White Whale comes with BBC-adapter, cables, PSU, head shell and FR's arm original box.
Not expensive... expert, professional crating and Fedex shipping at actual cost.
The turntable will work at 117V/60hz and 220V/50hz flawlessly.
I invite everyone wishing a trouble-free direct-drive turntable, serviced and clean and unique to contact yours truly at stefanocello-AT-gmail-DOT-com
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My best recording to-date
Yesterday I attended to an organ concert in my hometown Cattedrale...
... and recorded it.
I placed the Neumann USM-69 stereo in Blumlein, crossed 8-figure pattern about six meters from the organ, at about four meter height from church floor, using my trusty Sound Devices 722 at 24bit/192Khz.
The sound, also during monitoring through Beyer DT-48, was gorgeous!
The church reverberation was well here BUT not over-emphasizing and blurring the very organ voice... when I listened to the recording through Gotorama, I was jaw-dropped by the beauty and trueness of the sound: not the usual thick, slow sound too often experienced in organ recordings, but a great recording, with extremely quick decay, not showing any unwanted echoing and frequencies cancelling.
A beauty.
A beauty.
Dynamics are impressively rendered, low-end is true to life and high frequencies are extremely clear, extended and effortless, not shouting.
I must admit I'm very, very satisfied of the recording.
Proud.
Thanking my lovely wifey for most of the above pixies... and maestro Johannes Götz for his majestic playing.
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Cough! Flash! Stop!
I love Keith Jarrett's music... I love this cartoon...
Thanking Tyran Grillo and Dustin Mollick, the cartoonist...
... and Keith Jarrett for being Keith Jarrett!
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Sir Paul commuting...
... in 2nd Class carriage, no body-guards, no nothing... a down-to-earth legend... much appreciated.
Thanking mr. Wong's pixies...
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The Soloist's speakers - Jordan Watts
Jordan Watts are speakers form the outer space, period!
Ted Jordan was a Jedi who visited planet Earth and gifted humankind with Goodmans' Axiom 80 and later Jordan Watts' wide-band speakers.
BTW: have a pristine, N.O.S. '58 vintage Axiom 80 pair for sale... they're museum quality, perfect.. if interested, contact me at stefanocello-AT-gmail-DOT-com - will send hi-resolution pixies upon request.
These '60s speakers makes any soloist appearing, flesh and bones, in my studio.
A miracle!
A miracle!
You hear every breathe in a very seldom experienced way.
I had a long eargasm, today... and it isn't happening so often.
Fantastic, simply fantastic with Misho's Woodenamps... sublime with Fidelity Research AS-1 and Partridge/Copper 300B mono-blocks.
Ted Jordan was a genius, folks... and anyone into high resolution crossover-less speakers should experience'em... if they're good for Be Yamamura (who designed and built his own Cantus' speakers after Jordan Watts' design solutions and use them in his system, as well... ), who am I to confute it?
Soloist's speakers, I wrote... yes: Bert Jansch, Jakob Lindberg and Ralph Towner played in my Studietto. No kidding: I very seldom so much enjoyed Ralph's Guild 12 strings guitar and Bert's voice in full bloom.
Thanking my best pal Franz, Fiona and Trieu for the JW's project.
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Wave the stick...
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Christmas' Yard Sale - Goodmans Axiom 80
Have a pristine, N.O.S. '58 vintage Axiom 80 pair for sale, original, genuine Made in England, not the Japanese reissues... they're museum quality, simply perfect... if interested, contact me at stefanocello-AT-gmail-DOT-com - will send actual, hi-resolution pixies upon request.
Thanks for supporting my audio downsizing.
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Almost Nothing: CERN, experimental city (2018)
Yesterday I attended to this nice documentary projection with my wife... I've always been attracted by CERN in Geneva, Switzerland... the particle accelerometer, the boson of God, the scientific mysteries of Universe, energy, philosophical implications of "understanding" Nature, finding origin of life... maybe looking for God or whatever.
This documentary, as my wife wittingly observed, gives a strong sense of a claustrophobic secluded place with literally zillion kilometers of cables, pipes, galleries and tunnels...
Researchers of 160 different nationalities closely collaborate as a team, every sub-team deeply digging this or that scientific aspect, working like specialized ants around an huge puzzle whose whole imagine is unbelievably hard to comprehend: to study and understand the BIG VOID... the complications of stars and galaxies and universe(s).
Beside the boring, dull, yet necessary bulky presence of a huge industrial plant-like structure, what the movie communicated to me is the sense of naked, innocent fragility of the scientists and researchers when they candidly affirm the "do not know" this, that and beyond... only the fool knows everything!
This fragility of humankind when, instead of dealing with down to earth banalities and mobile-phones culture... they have to deal with Zero Kelvin Realm - i.e. just go 20 km straight above your head and... you're lost in space... darkness... ice with no ice... cosmic debrises... eons of... almost nothing!
This concept of a Universe made of "almost nothing" of an unexplainable void of unconceivable depths and entity reminds me... to Music.
Another mystery which scientists like Albert Einstein defined as: "there isn't any scientific proof of existence of music".
It's ionized, excited electrons "air"... is universally known and appreciated... it's vibration of cells and electrons... it's...
... BUT: does philosophers and musicians really cares about Nature's laws that makes our souls healing and tears pouring and lovers loving... memories blossoming, feeling long time gone perfumes and remembrances from the past?
Isn't a deeper knowledge search an obsession, a cage?
Shouldn't man enjoy life peacefully?
What's life? Zen-like peace of mind or fiery burning of desire for the unknown and discoveries?
Is it thirstiness of knowledge or power?
The feeling of several thousands people working at CERN makes me think that, YES, World Wide Web was conceived there and many, many other discoveries do and will do for medicine, for example, with 3D micro-surgery and the like... but everything looks - at least the sense I got from the movie - more experimental life than experimental city!
No math will be able to describe a sunset pink, always moving, always different... or a voice in a reverberant space.
Science isn't winning vs. ineffable!
Sort-of: they have everything at CERN - i.e. movie theaters, post office, gyms... but everything is so... unnaturally man-made... where is Nature scientists plan to study for the sake and love of it? Are these people still living or immolating themselves for humankind and its future?
Who's behind such an extra-long term research spanning decades of trials and errors... it's Man wishing to learn more to colonize outer space, new planets?
I invite everyone having 74 minutes free-hand to enjoy this movie...
I did.
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Good Tape!
Indeed...
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The Good Recordist
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