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The Battle of the Century - Tzar DST vs. Neumann DST vs. Lumiere DST - the...
The Tondose Ultimate Battle!The Battle of the Century will take over, soon... The Lumiere DST Type G built-in headshell (to my knowledge, possibly one of the few unflawed, well cared-for and properly,...
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NAT Audio Magnetostat
Magnetostat is a new reference point line stage made by NAT standards – transformer coupled pure triode class A with absolute zero feedback circuit configuration. Military grade type 6S31B-R output...
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Robbie Basho as a Young Dragoon
Thanking Kyle and Grass Tops Rec. - that's truly something in Robbie's spirit.A gift to the the world... a better one.
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Happy New Ear
Has been an incredibly troublesome and awesomely wonderful year... like life is, with its ups & downs and assorted niceties and nastyness... Most important for us should be persuing the right mix...
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Lyrita SRCS 116 - Elizabeth Maconchy
New year nicely beginning: thirty years search and today, voilà! I got it...... paid the right amount of money, as a plus... thanking the late Harry Pearson and the Ebay seller.
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My next turntable
The mighty Lyrec AG 40... asked for it to Santa...Hopefully I'll get it...... one day.
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David Bowie dies!!!
My heart is bleeding!One of the strongest heroes of my musical life died of cancer, aged 69.I just heard it and well... one of his timeless songs surfaced to my lips and I found a puzzled me whistling,...
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Lyrita - The Treasures of English Music
Moeran, Rubbra, Bax, Machonchy, Berkeley, Ireland, Bliss, Holst, Still, Parry, Benjamin, Finzi, Bush, Baines, Alwyn, Williamson, Howells, Arnold, Coates, Parry, Walton, Rawsthorne, Bridge, Leigh,...
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AccuTractor precision cartridge alignment jig by Studio Alchemist
From Taipei, Taiwan...My pal River Yu conceived and built this very cool cartridge mounting and fine tuning jig.The AccuTractor is a very carefully crafted precision instrument, not a toy: its...
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A new audio system birth
Made some room in my tiny studio for a new system: ear speakers and small monitor-speakers for intimate, late night listening and razor-sharp monitoring and editing.The speakers... secret-secret......
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Ozu, Mu and Music
I’m reading, better sipping and digesting Wim Wenders/Mary Zournazi’s book “Inventing Peace: a dialogue on Perception” (2013).It’s a great, little book, unassuming and very human, I’d say… Wim Wenders...
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Syrinx
I've been a fond and loyal user and follower of Scott Strachan's Syrinx company: his arms, the PU2, LE2, PU3 and PU3 Ipsissima were - years ago - a must and an alternative to SME... a sort-of...
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Le Solstice by Jean Hiraga
Searched for this elusive preamp many, many, many years, now... found it, today: it was sitting unused on a shelf, only about 800 m from my home… so goes the world.Used with Cabasse Dinghy and 300B...
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On Consignment Dept. - Ohm "F" omni-directional speakers for sale
... ho, hooo... a new dept... yes, on consignment: a friend asked for my support, so here I am.He's selling a VERY nicely kept, undented and perfectly working... ahem: singing Ohm "F"speakers.These...
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Site of the Day - Oleg Rullit's PhotoBucket portfolio
Oleg is a personal fave of mine: his good taste and knowledge about paper cones and field-coils are a well kept secret... old world technologies... better, artisanal skills and workmanship.Paper cones...
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John James & Pete Berryman - Sky in my Pie
Always a pleasure quoting this GREAT album!It was 44 years ago and acoustic guitars playing was so different from these days hyper-technicism and generalized slapping and copy-catting... melody was...
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RPM - a cool app for precisely measuring your turntable platter speed
... I'm using this cool app on my iPhone... RPM by Philip Broder.It uses the smartphone gyroscope and - well: it's for free and working flawlessly, precisely, safely... a true no brainer.Just near to...
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Understanding...
... the relationship between music choices and audio tasting, sound and noise, pleasure and obsession, aural memory, absolute inner ear and ideal DNA music of spheres. Is it possible to really...
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Writing about music
"How to Write About Music isn’t a manual. It’s a crystal ball worthy of any aspiring music writer’s gaze. It doesn’t hold your hand from concept to copy, but arranges tools you’ll need to get there on...
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