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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Happy birthday to Manfred Eicher 💫🥂💫🍀

 


Happy Birthday to Manfred Eicher, born 9 July 1943, founder of ECM record label, producer & album selector & designer who continues with crystal clear artistic vision. 







“When I listen back to them I know the story of every record which needs a lot of input, concentration & dedication to be made that is clear” said Herr Eicher.


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Pink Floyd’s reels 💫

 


Made in Japan and - rare as hen’s teeth - worth several thousands 💫💎💫

















Sunday, July 6, 2025

Saturday, July 5, 2025

The grand-grand piano 💫

 


A curious 15 year old ended up creating the longest grand piano in the world after asking a simple question. Inside a piano, the bass strings are wrapped with copper wire to deepen the sound without needing more length. 

A young pianist named Adrian asked his piano teacher, "without using copper wire, how long would the bass strings need to be to hit the right notes?" His teacher had no idea, so Adrian decided to figure it out himself. He purchased some piano wire and strung it up in his backyard. 

It was around 22 feet and the sound was amazing. Inspired by the incredible sound quality, the next step was to build a huge piano to hold the length of the wire and keep the amazing sound. 

Over the next 5 years, he came across difficulties that required a lot of problem-solving and dedication. But finally, his hard work paid off and his piano was complete. 




The Alexander Piano is 18ft 9 inches, weighing over a metric ton and is the world’s largest single keyboard grand piano. 


Here is an audio sampler of the unique beast.



Thursday, July 3, 2025

John Peel’s records-collection at Omega Auctions 💫

 


We are honoured to be able to offer an incredible selection of records and memorabilia for auction from the personal collection of the great John Peel. 




We've been working closely with the Ravenscroft family to select duplicate records from the archive to offer for sale. 




Part one of the 'John Peel Collection' is now online and ready for pre-bidding before the live auction on 29th July.




View and bid at the link below. Printed catalogues will be available for purchase soon. 


(Cut & paste the link here below on your browser)

https://bid.omegaauctions.co.uk/auction/details/a259-the-john-peel-collection/?au=205




Web-detoxing 2025

 


Time to enjoy small outdoor pleasures, mobile-less 🌈



Have a nice summer, folks…


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Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Monday, June 30, 2025

Neighbors 😏

 







Tony Levin grounded ✅

 


Tony Levin overdubbing parts in the control room for Peter Gabriel album. 

Notice the tape on Tony's toe which is connecting Tony to a ground wire so that his bass and pedalboard won't buzz at 50 Hz. 

Ashcombe always had some power weirdness compared to big city studios. 




Interesting the lengths musicians will go to achieve certain results or sounds.




When an audiophile dies… Stefan Götze 💫

 


It is with deep sadness that I must inform you of the loss of one of our own: Stefan Götze passed away yesterday after a short, serious illness.




Not only will we miss the immense effort he put into every ETF to provide tons of the finest measuring equipment for every conceivable eventuality, but we have also lost an incredibly intelligent, warm-hearted person with a wealth of expertise.


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RIP to his family and close friends…a very private person, I remember him with his towering B&K’s measuring-gears and soldering-iron in hand… I only met him at 2019 ETF in Belleme, France… but, paraphrasing Gregory Corso’s poem “When an audiophile dies, also Death is sad and spend all afternoon in a suburban cinema”.

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Thanks to Holger Barske for the nice words and Stefan’s picture 🙏



Bees’ callousness 😏







"I don't mean to be callous, Earl, but can I have your stereo?"





Sunday, June 29, 2025

Tim Buckley 🌈

 


TIM BUCKLEY




Timothy Charles Buckley III

 (February 14, 1947 – June 29, 1975)


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Jürg Schopper’s Triston tapes and discs

 


I’m honored to call this gentleman a friend… his good taste in music and adamant addiction to collecting the best master-tapes on the planet brought him and his Triston 🇨🇭 label to quickly reach the peak among the audiophile record labels..

Everybody should be able to experience the Tibor Varga and Leonid Kogan discs, true gems in both music and recording quality… but the same recordings listened as sought-after masterdubs are so awesome… no, better: sublime, to be moving to tears at every listen.








What Herr Schopper made is simply doing everything right, without compromising, preserving the mastertape quality!

The mastering is 100% analog and only perfectly tuned and maintained vintage studio machines are used (Studer C37 and Telefunken M10): no shortcuts or compromises to maximize quality.







The result is simply unbelievable and unique in today market 💫💎💫

I suggest everybody into beauty of music to promptly contact Triston and order Varga, first and then all others and sold-out those limited edition discs.

They’re so good 💫