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Star Wars' - The Force Awakens OST - the holographic 2LPs box set - limited...
From Back to Black... cool!Nice package... for the die hard collector, only?
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John Cage - Lettera a uno sconosciuto (1996)
I'm reading the 575 pages book about (and by) John Cage and his endless interviews, collected by Richard Kostelanetz (Edizioni Socrates, 1996 1st italian edition - original title - "Conversing with...
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A miniature
A micro B/W still-life, on the beach-towel...Cute, self-indulging silliness... my fault.
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Silver Rock AVC Passive preamp
A little, humble masterpiece, from Serge Schmidlin.... a 2004 vintage AVC.... a truly nice add to my little passive preamps collection... next add?A Meteor AVC, of course;-)))Yes! Thanking Serge...
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God is in the Irons - Silver Rock AVC - handmade in Switzerland
I got my 2004 pre-owned Audio Consulting's Silver Rock AVC passive line-preamp... connected to my Partridge/Allen Bradley/300B mono blocks feeding the Cabasses' and Meridian's digital...... and...
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Archiv's heritage 50 disks box-set
For new generation-sake... to do not forget such a musical treasure.
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Disk of the Month - Trost im Leid - C.P.E. Bach - Ensemble Precipitation...
A masterpiece... a must-have... an humble one, yet... such a beauty!Love this disk... music-wise and, YES! the recording is ***** (DSD, ecc.)
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His Bobness Chronichles - motorbike wreck anniversary
It was July 29th, 1966, near Woodstock... many versions of the mishappen circulated in the meantime... he fell, he slipped on oil... who knows?Whatever... Bob Dylan's music changed after his 9 months...
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Summertime Audio on the fly - Carl Zeiss speakers
Yes, indeed... sure I cannot stand in 35 degrees Celsius four Class A amps heating like the hell... too bad I cannot enjoy my Gotorama's.... but... the old, trusty Carl Zeiss luggage-like speakers,...
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Site of the Month - Robert Fripp's Diary
WOW!Such a goldmine of info and trivia... everything KC, Frippertronics and more... As a plus... just press the DGM's logo for priceless, always changing, inspiring quotes and i-Ching-like sentences,...
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Sublime
Speechless... amazed... and angry (with myself) for my being sooo slow... slow and lazy.After the recent arrival of Silver Rock AVC, I admit I only used it connected to the smaller combo, with 300B...
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Volume setting
I noticed that the more performing your system and, namely, the preamp you use, the more you have to regularly check the volume setting during your listening session.I noticed every time I changed the...
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Tokyo's Jazz bars are disappearing!!!
Tokyo Jazz Joints is a visual chronicle of an insular world, where time ceases to exist; spaces removed from the speed and chaos of the modern urban landscape. Sanctuaries for jazz enthusiasts where...
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The audio maid
... ordering discs and CDs and cleaning my tiny studio is a - proudly and unashamed said - someway seldom made activity for yours truly...Undusting my audio gears... well, it's something not on top of...
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WJAAS - “The music melts into the air of the room” or the next audio step:...
After spending zillions on cables, tubes, amps and all the ancillaries we audiophiles are too often described by the others as idiotphiles, some wealthy hardcore Japanese audio lovers choose the next...
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An extract from Stereo Times' Archives - The Hobby
From the goldmine of Stereo Times' Archives, a well written, straight and extremely no-frills short essay about audio and music listening at home... an essay by Constantine Soo (published on Jan. 16th,...
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"The" Saturday Disk - Meredith Monk - Songs of Ascension (ECM 2011)
Thanking my recent re-ordering of my CDs, I gave a listen to a disk I didn't played for many years, now...I love, truly, sincerely, desperately love Meredith Monk's music, since in early '80s I was...
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Vinylgue - seaweed-based "vinyl" new formula for our beloved discs
Vinylgue: the first green vinyl from algae manufactured in BritainThanking Nicanor Haon and Jaap PeesThis is a world first, it's made in France and no,you cannot really eat it ... Audiophile gourmets,...
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Rudy Van Gelder passed away... a lesser world it is, today.
Rudy Van Gelder, an audio engineer whose work with Miles Davis, John Coltrane and numerous other musicians helped define the sound of jazz on record, died on Thursday at his home, which doubled as his...
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