Yo Yo Miles... the Hipness in Music or how to feel cool while listening to...
... sometimes it happens: while listening to this or that music, you feel over the top, you hand-clap, alone, like a perfect idiot, move your hands in the air, silently screaming yo, yo or the like or...
View ArticleBenjamin Britten lives!
Tony Palmer's classic documentary about the 1967 Decca recording of Benjamin Britten's Church Parable "The Burning Fiery Furnace". With Peter Pears, Bryan Drake, John Shirley-Quirk, Robert Tear,...
View ArticleA great Goto Unit deal from Fukuoka, Southern Japan... what a bargain!
An impressive deal, folks... as found on Yahoo Auctions - Japan... the auction is still going on, and ending soon.Unfortunately, not an easy task shipping these goodies... Goto Unit SG 570, SG 379DX...
View ArticleTTWeights SRA/VTA Arm-base - tuning on the fly... fresh from Canada
At last the superb Fidelity Research B-60 VTA arm base got a recent replica from TTWeight from Canada.It's universal arm-base and you'll get perfect VTA while playing your disc... like with my own,...
View ArticleONKYO PX-100M
A great, GREAT turntable of stellar quality... at a stellar price-tag!Soooo sexy super-heavy 99,99% pure copper platter!Only 50 (fifty) were produced... so priced accordingly.WOW!
View ArticleI've no more wishes, my Lord...
The collector and David Munrow's scholar who's in me got it, pals... a VERY disc I've been searching for more than 30 years dropped in my hands for small money and in a totally surprising way.The gem...
View ArticlePiano piano piano
... so, life goes on.Today, I spent some pleasant hours at flea market... looking for old furnitures, paintings, glass-ware, books?Nope... vinyl!I found three Tulip label DGG - all Geza Anda's Chopin's...
View ArticleZaxcom Deva V 10 Track Hard Disk Recorder and Nicolas Bartholomee
An awesome recorder... the choice of - among others - Nicolas Bartholomee and his Musica Numeris... I love his recording good taste and ear!... mmmhhhh, I'm seriously thinking to sell my Telefunken...
View ArticleBetrayed!
Yes, betrayed... I'm now aware about the value of friendship, empathy, mentorship and trusting each other... few bucks!That's true for some people, of course... not me.... and no, not the dog... just...
View ArticlePeak 12" arm is singing!
WOW... and doing so with purest of voices!The recipe is so easy:-)... extra-heavy, extra-long pillar - like Neumann's studio arm wisely used to do - stainless steel housing to give balance and...
View ArticleHic et nunc - this is my wife's eye...
... always here at the right moment... not new (Fontana docet), but sooo classy and measured...I like it...
View ArticleECM News - Ralph Towner//Wolfgang Muthspiel/Slava Grigoryan - Travel Guide -...
Ralph TownerWolfgang MuthspielSlava GrigoryanTravel GuideRalph Towner classical and 12-string guitarsWolfgang Muthspiel electric guitar, voiceSlava Grigoryan classical and baritone guitars The...
View ArticleArif Sag - Halay on Nora SuperStereo (cassette)
This exotic, one-of-a-kind cassette by Arif Sag, a distinguished Turkish musician, a fantastic saz player and awesome singer, belongs to yours truly since late '80s, when I fell in love with the music...
View ArticleReinhard's new essay about ISO, USB and Doede Douma's DDDACs - digital...
Rope ladder (not to but) in Hi-Fi-heaven... you thought: you had learned in maths that 5 = 5 and in physics that 5 Volt = 5 Volt ?Theoretically this is all right... but practically, in HiFi, it is not...
View ArticleGuitar players rioting in Brussels
Just kidding and wondering: rioting against strings prices increase or electric guitars super-power?Thanking Emi Nozawa and Pierre Bensusan for hinting.
View ArticleTortuga LDR1 Passive preamplifier
Using a cool contactless potentiometer... after my recent engagement with two sought-after passive, transformers-based preamps - i.e. Fidelity Research AS-1 and Luxman AT-3000's, both very musical and...
View ArticleOcean Tales - The Rubber Ducks' Journey
Thousands of rubber ducks to land on British shores after 15 year journeyBy BEN CLERKINLast updated at 22:00 27 June 2007They were toys destined only to bob up and down in nothing bigger than a child's...
View ArticleKlangfilm Bionor
While making some order in the thousands pixes mess in my Mac, I found these cool pixies I found years ago and stored in my hard-disk: a superb Klangfilm Bionor baffle pair for cinema, using top KL...
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