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Claudio Ottaviano Quartet - Aurora (2015)
Nice, lounging, smooth jazz from Italy... thanking Claudio for suggesting and wishing him and his quartet the VERY best!Nice...
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München uber alles!
My third time at M.O.C., folks... every time I get shocked, as the variety of the dynamics among people, gears, music (and noise), chatting, learning, sharing, teaching (sometime happens...) is always...
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Munchen Random Selfies and Portraits...
It happened... not thinking that it was a show in the show... the people behind those gears is as important (and more...) than the displayed stuffs.That's my opinion.So here is a selection... I...
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Reel-to-reel renaissance at M.O.C.
Reel to reel, open reel... tape recorders... whatever you want to call them... They are impressive, sexy, elegant, timeless machines... my first love in audio, since I was 6 or 7 years old...Still the...
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Home Sweet Home
This morning... ... and four and a half hours later...Home... safe & sound.Thanking my beloved wife for the warm welcome.
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Arlo Guthrie Alice's Restaurant Anniversary...
I love this kind of apparently silly anniversaries... unimportant to most, Arlo Guthrie's original 1967 two-tones label Reprise disc is in my discotheque since my boyhood and how many times I laughed...
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World Premiere - The Point One Van den Hul's Turntable!
Ok, ok... maybe it's not world premiere;-)... yet.... WOW!What a beauty... magnetic suspended, super low friction and highest known feedback-proof.Look at the IMPRESSIVE platter...Sorin Oancea, van den...
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PMR Mk II Referenz by HighEndNovum
I'm a believer, folks.Call me a lunatic, easily influenced and always ready to ride this or that audio tweaks of the day... maybe it's so, yet I much more prefer to call myself a truth seeker, humbly...
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Passive Multivocal Resonator - further thoughts and experiences
… fiddle, fiddle… listen, listen… fiddleagain, fiddleagain… relisten, relisten... my experience with PMR Referenz is going on, folks, thanking the monsoon-like heavy rains so ideal for music and...
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Woodstock forever!
The couple hugging under the blanket from the Woodstock album cover are still together, 46 years later!Love this kind of news...
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Studer B 62 - back to the roots!
Love this reel to reel recorder... a no-frills classic also loved by the like of John Lennon, who used as a home playback machine, and Brian Eno, a personal hero and a renowned open reel user and...
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Tyran Grillo's achievement: reviewing ALL ECM's ever issued!
Bingo!A life achievement for Tyran, who, so humbly like only truest greats are, was self-impressed by how many words he wrote...I sincerely replicated that it's not a matter of quantity, BUT of...
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WJAAS - A Japanese Adventure
These gentlemen, namely Jean Hiraga, Jean Laurent Veys, Andre Klein and Reinhard Huttenburg recently visited Japan for an audio full-immersion trip, a true, veritable adventure of a life: more than...
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Where have all the flowers gone?
Like a traditional I sang and (badly) played when in my teens, after listening and learning it from Joan Baez... where have all the pre-owned gears gone?Pre-owned, previously-cared for, second-hand…...
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Ikea Turntable
... aehm, actually made of Ikea-sourced parts... yet, SUPERB and clever...Cool!
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CM2/Andrea Musto Silver cables - a must!
Cable making is like dicks and opinions: everyone has its own!So, every tiniest town has a cable maker and the cliche is quite common - i.e. sometimes a retired or semi-retired gentleman in his sixties...
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Karlheinz Stockhausen - The Man who came from Sirius
... it's how he defined himself... Karlheinz Stockhausen and his musique concrete were... ARE what almost desperately got nearer to the sound of the stars, of creation, of nucleus dividing and...
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R.I.P. Dept. - Ornette Coleman passed away.
He was 85... saw him in 1971, with Billy Higgins... 't-was in Padua, Italy: what a concert... a younger me was blown away by the free-form energy coming from his horn...I still have his autograph...
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KLEI™gZero20 ICs cable or only the fool have no doubts!
During my recent cable trials activities, I had the rare opportunity to listen to the KLEI gZero20 from Australia, a premium quality cable which was handled directly from the hands of KL Eichmann,...
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Stephan the Nomad
Here is the new, upcoming 21st ECM disk by Stephan Micus... never tiring and always sounding brand-new, both modern and ancient.Instant buy, for both my ears and soul.
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