Good gears remain good gears 🥇
Esoteric P-2 transport and D-2 DAC are - aehm: were - the peak of Teac’s research in digital domain… only 20+ years ago 😱😎😇!Are the above gears still valuable and worth buying and - most of all -...
View ArticleA one of a kind ‘59 Gibson ES-335
The modification to a Gibson 335 from the 1950s can appear as a disfigurement of the originality of an instrument of great historical and musical value. But in some cases that very modification can be...
View ArticleCaptain Beefheart & Henry Cow
No surprise 😏 they toured together for five weeks, back in 1974 🥇
View ArticleA pictures tells more than one hundred words
I used to look and look again at this very picture: the more expert I got, the more details I was able to appreciate… amazing how much important a (good) picture can be 🥇Late Kei Ikeda-san in his studio
View ArticleALE 126 and new Fluxsus’ horns
In Bologna’s boiling-pot things go fast 😱Also showing the Fluksus RUAH harmonizer, now performing its elusively necessary duties.
View ArticleJordan-Watts Flagon Mk III “high power”
A well-kept secret, yet well known by Far East audiophiles: these JW’s Flagon are magical in their disappearing in the room, leaving only music 🎶🎶🎶Someone called them ugly ceramics or funeral-urns or...
View ArticleMax Yasgur or the man who (helped to) change(d) the world
Max Bernard Yasgur (December 15, 1919 – February 9, 1973) was an American farmer. He was the owner of the 600-acre (240 ha) dairy farm in Bethel, New York, where the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was...
View ArticleGlen Moore’s Klotz double-bass (1715)
Hannah Mayne is a bass luthier. In that capacity, she has worked on this Klotz bass (Tyrol, around 1715), belonging to our beloved Glen Moore.The cracks, bruises and scars are like wrinkles of an...
View ArticleProf. Padovani’s Thorens TD124
A one of a kind TD124 with EMT 997 Banana arm and skeletal plinth, owned by late Prof. Padovani, an almost mythological semi-pro Italian audio builder and scholar.Now in my pal Marco’s collection,...
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