This is Stefano Bertoncello's Blog (ステファノ・ベルトンチェッロ - トゥーグッドイアーズ − ブロガー、オーディオ＆ミュージック・コンサルタント) devoted to pacific topics like Music - live and reproduced - i.e. discs, audio, guitars - both vintage and new, concerts, workshops, and related stuffs. Furthermore: travelling - as a mind-game and real globetrotting, and books, movies, photography... sharing all the above et al. and related links... and to anything makes Life better and Earth a better place to stay, enjoying Life, in Peace.
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A new upcoming project for new year 🎶
The behemoth landed at my studio, at last!
It’s a marvelous piece of Made in West Germany machine, as sought-after as it can be.
I fell in love after touching it at Munchen MOC audio fair at Tacet label booth where I bought some vinyl discs recorded with this reel to reel studio machine.
Its smooth and dynamic sound comes from another era but it still is capable of great sonic performances!
A magnificent disk, an awesome performance for the - at the time of recording - 29 years old pianist.
The recording is by Michael Seberich and is of stellar quality, indeed!
DaVa FC Mono of the new generation has got the same improvements like Reference stereo.It is winded with double wire, therefore has two independed 0.25 mv outputs.It can be used for one or two speakers, double mono.
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… aehm: nicknamed “Shorty” for the 35 cm long cable 🥳
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A good stroke!
Tascam knows some musicians pine for the 'warm' quality of cassette recordings, and it's willing to effectively resurrect dead technology to meet their needs. The company has introduced a 424 Studio Master High Bias Type II Cassette designed for the brand's decades-old Portastudio four-track cassette recorders. Artists can record analog samples and tunes without hunting down rare tapes and fretting over degradation.
The cassette isn't a perfect match. Tascam said it's using existing magnetic oxides to produce tape that's as close "as possible" to the material Portastudios were meant to use, but recorder owners may still have to do some "fine tuning" to adjust for 2021-era cassettes.
However, this isn't just an appeal to nostalgia — to some extent, it's about the preservation of analog cassette recording. Cassette production has been suffering from oxide shortages since 2019, years after a (still-ongoing) tape revival. Tascam noted that it's now the sole company making High Bias Type II cassettes. While there are tapes already on the market, they're both rare and expensive.
Availability is only listed as "soon." Tascam's cassettes also won't satisfy creators who want genuinely new recorders to replace a shrinking supply of old hardware. This might be the next best thing, though, and could be a relief for Portastudio fans who don't want to make a complete leap into the digital realm.
A Corian body, triangle-air coils, no elastomer… not a veritable Neumann DST replica… nonetheless, it’s heartwarming a 64+ years old design be (successfully) revived to these days.
The rarest, most sought-after cartridge, ever… possibly, even rarer than a pristine Neumann DST💎🥇💎
Sure the “WE hearing aids” sounds both romantic and appropriate, indeed.
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On the shelves I keep the best sounding masterdubs and master-tapes… in the background, same cherry picked 4 tracks 7” tapes… the bulk is in carton boxes.
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I finally found a mint copy of this beloved disc of mine!
One of the most sought-after discs of British jazz… not cheap, but… life is one 🎶😏🎶 and too short to not enjoy it.
Last evening I attended (and recorded 😏) an awesome concert: a piano/violin duo of seldom heard quality performing for almost two hours Schumann’s sonatas.
Paolo Ghidoni, violin and Marco Tezza, piano showed a level of stage presence and empathy with audience truly encomiabile, which greatly improved musical enjoyment.
The Steinway was freshly tuned (a lengthy and painstaking tuning which I witnessed before the concert) and the sound was truly majestic!
Both artists were so emotionally involved and immersed in the beauty of the score and their faces suggested they were contemplating a world of ineffable beauty.
A truly impressive performance 🎭 and totally and successfully shared with the lucky audience.
The recording - I humbly add - captured the uniqueness of the music and the stellar performance… but all merits go to the artists!
Thanks to Maestro Ghidoni and Maestro Tezza
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