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Happy New Ear
... ehm: kidding!Happy New Year, folks... my very best wishes for an healthy, wealthy and Uber-musical 2020!
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The Tao of the Fifth Way
I'm surprised, folks... I discovered only a few days ago I'm not 100% human: I'm some x% of a bat DNA;-)To my very surprise, I added to 4-ways Gotorama a cheap dipole ribbon (super) tweeter, good as...
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Jimi Hendrix' Garrard 401
Yes, Jimi Hendrix also enjoyed our beloved idler-wheel turntable.A Garrard 401 in - apparently - a SME plinth and Ortofon SPU and RMG309 arm.
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Happy birthday to John McLaughlin
Thanks for so much joy you and your music gave to me (and zillions others worldwide).Happy birthday!
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Gibson L5 Custom - the Kalamazoo Masterpiece
I've been enjoying it for a week, now... a 1976 Gibson L5 Custom hollowbody guitar, hand-carved spruce top and maple back, powerful hambucking PUs, Grover Tulip tuning gears... It's a bliss, full...
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Stone Speakers 487 Venetia - furthermore...
I gladly host my pal Antonio Scanferlato's short review of the Stone Speakers' 487 Venetia after the first exposure to them a few weeks ago... he'll be reviewing the speakers for an italian paper...
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Darius Valiunas' DaVa MC field-coil cartridge and PSU
Thanking Darius, the one-of-a-kind combo landed today... will be preparing the Litz additional PSU cables to feed the coils in the cartridge with the 12V needed... then will mount on my Archè head...
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Goto crossovers are singing!
Today I decided to (finally) install the 12 db/octave crossovers I recently acquired... after having the 20 binding posts rebuilt (originals were missing or damaged), I prepared the necessary cables...
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Still Life (2013)
Saw today such a touching, poetic, truly enriching movie...Uberto Pasolini, the Director, and Eddie Marsan, superbly acting in the main character and role, simply touch the ineffable of life, its...
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Darius Valiunas' DaVa FC-1A cartridge listening sessions...
My sloth-like nature won for a couple of weeks, since I got the Lithuanian handmade cartridge from the builder himself... I kept it on a shelf, waiting for a Litz cable with miniature contacts for 12V...
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DaVa FC-1A field coil cartridge: further comments...
... after more listening experiences and SUTs swapping were almost complete...The winner (unsurprisingly) is WE 618B...I tried Peerless 4685, Harman Kardon XT-3, Soundaries Audio 618 replica... all...
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DaVa FC-A1 - the epilogue
This early morning, I completed my tasting and testing of the beautiful, unique field-coil beauty from Lithuania.Played with VTA using the Lencohell's Corian platter/mat and gave a quick listen to...
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The vinyl lacquers plant on fire!
Apollo Masters, a lacquer manufacturing facility located in Banning, Calif., sustained a major fire yesterday (Feb. 6) and burned down. This horrendous event could affect the worldwide supply of vinyl...
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The Tiger
A reader asked me to share the sentiment and feeling while listening to DaVa FC-A1 cartridge... My reply was:I’m listening right now: I’m still - after 4 days listening sessions - impressed by the...
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The Most Beautiful DL103 headshell ever!
Buy exclusively here...Thanking my pal Jacopo.
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The Neumann DZT - the Holy Grail
A friend contacted me and he's offering this beauty, in working and pristine conditions...Look at the double diamond, original jewel box... This is THE Neumann Holy Grail... Anyone?
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Living Music
Yes, I know: purists would wish to see my Stellavox SP7 spinning its reels... but: please forgive me.. the Sound Devices 722 at 24bit/192Khz with Neumann USM69 is just such a convenient combo...... and...
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My Studer C37 disappeared...
Am in troubles, folks... brought my Studer C37 serial nr. 978 to Andreas Kuhn in Thun on August 2018 (have a look here)...Yes, I know... a long overhauling job on a vintage, sixty years old machine......
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