Friday, June 26, 2009

Jacko's dead!

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A genius is dead, folks... rivers of ink will be used in the next days... the black who wished to be like his icon, Liz Taylor, the one who ...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

Iran: religion and power... it's always the same story: violence and violence again!

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From my friend Niko Wilke from Germany: "This is the house I live in. Today I put up a large green flag. You should do the same. There ...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Listening hints or what's spinning in my listening room.

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Feelin' groovy, would say... listening to the right music at the right moment is, indeed, dressing time and space in the most sumptuous,...
Monday, June 22, 2009

Horns and live music? Definitely "Yes!"

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. While browsing around found a truly weird, WEIRD horn speaker, a carnivorous-flower/speaker like it came from Lewis Carroll's mind-in-...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Maurizio Angeletti... I never forgot your lessons, back in early '80s!

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While surfing the Net, I found the new site, extremely well made, of Maurizio Angeletti, the acoustic guitar player and musician who I first...
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Saturday, June 13, 2009

A Romance on Three Legs - Glenn Gould's obsessive search for the Perfect Piano

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The title alone of this (quite) recent book by Katie Hafner was enough to capture my attention, down at the book-shop and to buy it... the w...
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Friday, June 12, 2009

Audio & design: a visual and aesthetic approach...

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... as a parallel quest to my main music/audio system, I finally came up assempling a sort of '70s audio (my own) dream system - i.e...
Monday, June 8, 2009

Hugh Hopper passed away yesterday, June 7th 2009

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... as I loved so much this musician, as myself, the many who loved him for his art and multi-layered skills, we do not need words to expres...

WJAAS - A classy way to clean/undust vinyl records

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... much better and no-global than the usual, expensive "audiophile" stuff - i.e. carbon-fiber brush, I recently found a classy su...
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Saturday, June 6, 2009

Berlin's SCHOOL of SOUND - Part 2

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... a school during students vacation... empty classrooms, graffitis in the toilets, dark corridors... and people from Germany, Norway, Ital...

Berlin's SCHOOL of SOUND - Part 1

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Entered quite late in the evening in an audio converted emptied classroom, like transported by a very nice sound... a man in his sixties, el...
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Friday, June 5, 2009

WJAAS - Matt Mullenweg visiting Shindo Labs

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A nice, nice recent report in Tokyo Ken Shindo's atelier by Matt Mullenweg... Shindo's World/> Thanks Matt for the great shots!
Monday, June 1, 2009

WJAAS - The Headshells Survey (reprise) - B/A - Bosouem Acoustics' "Big Nose" universal headshell - Part 2

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... despite the ugliness and weird looking of B/A headshell, something great is happening, folks... After some days I didn't used nothin...
Sunday, May 31, 2009

Dieter Ennemoser and C37 theory - a human friendly science or...?

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C37 Book - English "The Character of Sound" by Dieter Ennemoser The C37 book "The Character of Sound" by Dieter Ennemose...
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... WE 437-based phono stage... Audio Consulting AG from Swirzerland did this way...

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Audio Consulting of Switzerland, the super esoteric workshop run by Serge Schmidlin which plainly said, simply hates caps and AC, while love...
Friday, May 29, 2009

ECM 2009 - the year of jazz/arabic fusion?

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They already, first among all or so, to mix arabic culture and tradition with jazz, a no-brand music like the Anouar Brahem, a musican I dee...
Wednesday, May 27, 2009

WE 437A/LCR Phono-stage and 801A/10Y Line-stage project - Thomas Mayer's at work!

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The result of sooo pleasant, recent Berlin's gathering and endless audio and music chatting has been the above: Thomas Mayer is definite...
Friday, May 15, 2009

Himalaya Blues

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Knut Reiersrud/Hans Fredrik Jacobsen/Vajra Himalaya Blues Grappa 2004 Norwegian blues guitarist Knut Reiersrud has collaborated in the last ...
Thursday, May 14, 2009

IVIE TECHNOLOGIES INC. IE-30A and Damiano Pinazza's Holy Hands

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As I recently wrote, I was pushed by Dietmar Hampel from Germany, to use pink noise and Real Time Analyzer to finely tune my speakers system...
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