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Jean Hiraga meets Gotorama
After our recent German gatherings and meetings and so, even more, appreciating Jean Hiraga's passion, skill, humanity and down-to-earth approach, always friendly and supportive with (sincere) music...
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Jean Hiraga meets ALE and Be Yamamura: one of the best system in the world?
Italian design meets Japan at its VERY best: ALE 6-ways ALL The VERY top Beryllium diaphragms, weighting between 100 and 160 kilos each, a grand-total weight for speakers - horns and drivers of about...
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Robbie Basho's "Laughing Thunder, Crawling Thunder" - Vanguard 1974 Lost Tapes
Today it's a special, a VERY special day for yours truly!!!Thanking Alan Morse Davis and his sharing.... DL it, folks... and save it in your hard-disk for posterity!
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Non-human persons!
Yes!I still have carved in my memory when I swimmed with two dolphins, in Dahab, Egypt, some years ago... their eyes were like my Chicco's!
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Western Electric 421A: what a (double) triode!
I remember I owned my first 5998-based little amp in early '90s... at that time I used Altec 803 in a back loaded horn and Altec 806A in an Iwata mid-high horn... and listened to music and music and...
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Analog Instruments' "Siggwan" 12" arm from New Zealand
A new cat is in town, folks...From deeeep Downunder - actually windy, beautiful New Zealand - James Grant (and his one-man-company Analog Instruments) is brewing a very intriguing organic 12 inches...
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Vinyl alternative use
... better than thrashing, yet, don't know why, my heart someway suffers looking at these handicrafts...De gustibus... Thanking my friend Fabi-san.
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R.I.P. Dept. - J.J. Cale passed away at 74...
... he had an heart-attack and died in La Jolla, California, on July 26th, 2013.How I loved his laid-back music: own ALL his discs and listened to them several times, fondly... he represented for yours...
View ArticleCymatic, Saturn's secrets and NASA silence... the untold
Cymatics is the study of how sound can alter the physical structure of materials, creating interesting structural patterns. To see this for yourself, you can turn a stereo speaker on its edge (with the...
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Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld - the surprise beyond the silence
... yes, I'm - definitely - still smiling...Went to Sesto al Renghena, a nice village about 140 km from home, to attend to a concert of Teho and Blixa... an Italian and a German gentlemen and musicians...
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The worst records covers, ever!
Crappiest cover-art is an art-form... or the bad taste elevated to art.Really cool stuff, here...I'm speechless...http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/worst-album-covers
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Tutto qua
Thanking my best pal Lo, I discovered a disk by Fabio Concato titled "Tutto Qua"... Fabio Concato is a long time hero of mine since "Una domenica bestiale", a hit of some decades ago.Yet, I didn't...
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Psych Scoop!
Yeahhh... the secret unveiled: so Robert Fripp played a Martin D-18 with King Crimson, back in early '70s... thinking about "Cadence And Cascade"...A younger me guessed it was his '58 Gibson Les Paul...
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WE 421A
The little gizmo's singing...Left side: Be Yamamura's cotton cables. ... with a little help from Studer A730 and Mayer's CX-310 Line Stage.... curious about the cobra-like umbilical between Thomas'...
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Tao
Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice;Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.- Lao Tzu
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Alessandro Monti's "The Venetian Book of the Dead' with Kevin Hewick - Unfolk
This is an heavy load, folks... Alessandro and Kevin Hewick dedicated this disk to Marghera (Venice) deaths for cancer at chemical plant which was there, sooo near to one of the most famous, beautiful...
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Audio tourism - Jan and Knut from Norway
After wine, food, fishing, sexual (to blame!) and diving tourism and travelling... audio tasting and tourism is a reality!Two more friends visited my humble studietto and Gotorama: Jan and Knut from...
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CarotOne
Lovely, smart, cool and... funny little gizmos gears from Chi... aehm, Italy:-)))!
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FWS' "Leonardo" spruce tonewood from Ciresa - from Paneveggio/Val di Fiemme...
From one of the VERY best piano/harpsichord soundboard makers from Italy, here is a nice, new - yet not unique or the first, ever - attempt to make spruce tonewood board sounding as a speaker... a mix...
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