Zen amp by Nelson Pass
Enlightening!Worth further investigation... it's a single SIT transistor amp and the four glasswares are light-bulbs, used as resistors in circuit, NOT tubes!Pass is now designing power amps based on...
View ArticleGreat Songs Dept. - Skip James'"Hard Time Killing Floor Blues"
The original by Skip James and great renditions by Jack Owens and Benjamin "Blind Bud" Spires, Lucinda Williams, Piers Faccini, R.L. Burnside, Jo Ann Kelly, Chris Thomas King, Sonny Landreth &...
View ArticleSong of the Day - Else Torp & Christopher Bowers-Broadbent - My Heart's in...
An amazing, circular, haunting superbly eerie, loop-like song heavenly performed by a soprano and organ...Italian film-director Paolo Sorrentino used it as part of OST on his "The Great Beauty", the...
View ArticleBass' bass - superb low-end and seldom heard music by Rob Mazurek - "Calma...
A lovely disk by Rob Mazurek, thanking my friend Edo's good taste...Tough guy... and music and subterranean low-end, to par.Enjoy!
View ArticleAmarcord Dept. - The Zeiss-Ikon "luggage" speakers and pre-seismic base EMT...
It was only a few years ago, before Gotorama... Compact and WAF-friendly... and... this nice copy of Robert Wyatt's "Dondestan"...
View ArticleThe John Fahey Handbook - Vol. 1 by Claudio Guerrieri (2013)
A masterpiece... an absolute must for any John Fahey's scholar... almost 500 pages of in-deep info and trivia, records covers piexes and more... MUCH more...I bought it!... and cannot wait for Vol. 2...
View ArticleSite of the Month - Original Sound Art Iwakura Aichi from Japan
Superb!Norma-Hylee Tonmechanic's plinth and arm, with overhauled 301.The elegant Norma-Hylee 12" arm, respectfully hinting to Neumann's arm... both from Berlin.
View ArticleSaturday Disk - Philip Glass & Foday Musa Suso - Music from The Screens (1992)
... what a beauty, folks... in glorious ADD sound quality.Thanking my pal Franz...
View ArticleBelonova - Through the eyes of the sun - (Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares'...
Great timeless music... Love it!
View ArticleSte & Stella
... aehm, well... not really a Stella's, but a Blazer & Henke "Savannah" 12 strings, actually...
View ArticleEMI EPU 100 arm and EPH/S variable-reluctance matching cartridge
From England... yes, the EMI of cool arm logo is the same EMI - Hayes, Middlesex of The Beatles' fame...... the coffin-shaped EPH/S cartridge... a cart 2die4:-)))Thanking Mark...
View ArticleMystere
Impressive is the comment which comes to mind... but also elegant and soooo understated in hiding all its technical secrets.At Lumen White they know how and what to do to capture audiophile...
View ArticleMarina Abramovic - The Artist is Present at MoMA - NYC
Can art be compassion? Is the artist a mirror? Is life a performance? Why nudity is so offending for someone? Why looking in each others eyes can be painful? ... or wonderful?What's a poem? Image or...
View ArticleVeteran Hi Fi from Stockholm, Sweden
Superb...Lenco and RF 297 replica... Switzerland and Sweden partnershipOrtofon RF 297 replica...The simple elegance of Lenco 75Cantus by Opus 3 on steroids... but not so much...
View ArticleHauling!
How I'd wish to be a singer and an Amarra-only user...Guitars and vinyls (and shoes:-))) are REALLY a mess to deal with!
View ArticleJohn Cage
Early Electronic and Tape Music gathers six such Cage pieces in the loving hands of the Langham Research Centre, a UK-based new music troupe specializing in authentic re-creations of classic electronic...
View ArticleHeadshell of Distinction - ViV Labo Nelson Hold headshell from Japan
Looking for an alternative on those crappy, fake, badly performing chinese copies of Orsonic's?THIS IS YOUR CHOICE - an anti-resonance headshell of seldom seen shape and high quality, hand-made in...
View ArticleApril - an RCA-plugs survey...
April... yes, it's April... a lapalissian reality, yet... how misteryous when I browsed for a disk, yesterday evening in the dimmed light of my music room, and... Susanne Abbuehl's "April" on ECM...
View ArticleFMP - Free Music Production from Berlin
The Rock of improvised music, from Berlin... from 1966 onward, they gave us, music daredevils, shivers of joy and debrises of craziness to broaden our minds, rescueing us from Flat Earth Syndrome.........
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