Amber sound - new mono DaVa cartridge from Lithuania
DaVa MONO Vintage FC cartridge starts the line of DaVa MONO cartridges. Everybody knows, that old mono vinyls were recorded in direct cutting way. It needed minimum of recording equipment. It gave high...
View ArticleSavary - the Stradivarius of he bassoons
An incredibly fine recording, a world premiere... recorded in Bern, Switzerland in 2013, using a Bassetto’s Savary bassoon replica and an historic flute and fortepiano. Just gorgeous!
View ArticleArt Dudley passed today!
Very, very sad news from overseas... Art Dudley passed this morning... he was a witty writer and reviewer for the very best audio magazines and a gentle presence on web, always empathic and friendly...
View ArticleTools of the craft - Tony Rice’s Martin D28 (1935)
Don’t find a better way to commemorate the late Art Dudley (an accomplished acoustic guitar player and scholar himself) with his great essay about - yes! - not a piece of gears, but a tool made for...
View ArticleDisc of the Month - Big Bill Broonzy & Pete Seeger in NYC (Folkways 1956)
I collected Folkways Records’ discs since I was in my teens... please don’t ask why, my first Folkways’ disc was Roscoe Halcomb’s... to-day date, I own 50+ and sometimes when browsing in my...
View ArticleBruno Maderna in Milan in the ‘60s
Yesterday evening, a late 1 A.M. aehm, so earlier today, a TV documentary about Bruno Maderna at Electronic/Concrete Music workshop in Milan... I was in awe: Studer C37, Studer J37 and other great...
View ArticleNaska Loris lamp
Love it!This lamp is about 50 years old... about same vintage of the Studer C37!
View ArticleSuesskind Phono Stage
Maybe the most sophisticated Phono Stage on this planet. Ultra low noise -160dB from 1V.The noise impedance is only 0,29Ohm. The best active stages are around 5 Ohm and have 1/F noise, especially when...
View ArticleListz and time machine picture
Anna Loretta Arkness (Arma Senkrah) was 21 years old, and Franz Liszt 75, when they played in duo the Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata for an chosen audience at Liszt's house, on July 20, 1885. She played...
View ArticleSchedule 1
A Garrard 301 Schedule 1, soon ready...Still mumbling about which arm to install, but will possibly be Gray 108 broadcast arm and DaVa field coil cartridge.
View ArticleThe Mystery
Am I sick? Is it possible to experience a sweet disturbance, a sensual and sexual attraction for the mystery expressed so well by the artist?Yes!
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