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Silbatone's Mazinga or...
... a Silbatone's SE power amp I could live with, as 850 mW can sound HUGE... I can only wonder how 4 - one for each way - of these beauties could sound with my Gotorama.Great, GREAT building quality...
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Reel to reel rainy day afternoon
Rainy day, yeah!Today THE most perfect weather for a loooong listening session while taping master-copies for a friend...... using (almost) all my trusty tape recorders!The Revox A 77 MkIV 4-tracks was...
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Vérité Musicale
I got on loan this disc from my pal Enrico... it's a 45 rpm recorded with a (Charlin's?) dummy-head miking technique and the star of the disc is a 1716 gorgeous Donzelague's harpsichord.The disc is a...
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Sunday audio show
A small, cute audio show in a magnificient location: Villa Godi-Maliverni, some km north of Vicenza, Northern Italy, where I arrived in a mild - unnaturally high temp for the season - sunday morning,...
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Disc of the Day - Ludus Danielis on Melodya (1978)
A marvellous 3 Euros gem, folks...The singers are slightly too polite vs. - say - some "dirtier" René Zosso's singing with René Clemencic's renditions, but the sound... it's just awesome!Recorded in...
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Andy, Oleg and Misho
Andy, an Australian mate - a nice, common guy, into angling, camping and out-door life and camping with his family and friends - recently got a bespoke, handmade amp set...He already owns one pair of...
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Naska Loris industrial lamp (1933)
I own two of these old industrial lamps whose design by Jacobsen, dates back to 1933, both early '70s vintage, from my school days... it's shape and function, in the best Norwegian tradition, same as...
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Siemens Typ RL 301
I’ve always been quite fond of seldom heard and seen, humble audio masterpieces… sometimes neglected stuffs nobody – but my German-speakers mentor Nico Wilke, of course… - is paying any attention.This...
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Analog vs. analog vs. analog vs. analog
What’s analog and why should we be offended by digital per se, if, at the end, our ears are always the purest of analog devices, so able to convert any digital or digitalized signal back to analog,...
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Tandberg 114/116-8 coaxial
Hosting a new (old) mid-sized, humble wonder coaxial speaker... a truly seldom heard well-kept secret, indeed!From Oslo, Norway... to my place.
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IREM Ministab 228
Searching for +/- 0,5 Volts precision...52 kilos of italian-made quality.
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At Robbie Basho & Steffen Junghans' shrine
Last week I was in Berlin... always like being at home, such a pleasure walking the alleys and meeting some friends.The second day, it was early morning, I remembered something worthwhile was in...
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Pink Floyd at 510 nWm...
Santa arrived early, folks!... a pleasure every audiophile should taste, indeed!Dark Side of the Moon's master dub at 15 IPS CCIR is just amazing: like listening to it for the first time.
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Revox E, F & G 36
These tube stereo tape recorders has been a statement of Swiss technology for decades and... surprise-surprise: they're still going strong these days!Love every... E, F or G 36's;-)
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Jimi's acoustic El Cheapo's auctioned for BIG bucks at Bonhams'
Jimi Hendrix’s longest-owned guitar sold for £209,000—about $258,000—today in London at Bonhams’ Entertainment Memorabilia sale.The guitar—a 1951 Epiphone FT79 acoustic (Serial No. 62262), shown...
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Mandozzi Elettronica DART-2 from Switzerland
I was looking since a long time for an easy, elegant, light - but not a toy - portable field-recorder... Mandozzi's DART-2 represents a viable, cheaper and elegant option to a Nagra or a Sound Devices...
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JRF Magnetics Inc.'s Studer "Monster Machine"
1 inch/2 tracks... only this give me a shiver...With twice the track width, a lower noise floor, and extended frequency response, one-inch 2-track is the sleeping giant of analog mastering formats in...
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