Monday, January 30, 2012

Musings?

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Thanking BP's fucking HUGE mistakes... and thinking that the Gulf Stream goes 800 to 1200 m deep and is about 100 km wide and "som...
Friday, January 27, 2012

R.I.A.A. equalization curve - friend or foe?

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Read carefully those Wikifacts, folks... cannot stop thinking while reading above RIAA's genesis - more politics than music-related - t...
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Michel Petrucciani at Pere Lachaise

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... in loving memory of Michel...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

... again about silence - John Cage's point of view

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... shhhhhhhh... a 4'33" moment worth a whole life.

The Ten Most Incomprehensible Bob Dylan Interviews of All Time

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Incredibly amusing and entertaining... His Bobness' interviews, at his best... thanking the Vulture.
Monday, January 23, 2012

Ivan's Choice - Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters, Underrated Silence

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Ulrich Schnauss , master of shoegazer indietronica, and Mark Peters, bass player, guitarist and songwriter in the british band engineers, pr...

Ears and hearing - In praise of silence

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Yesterday I spent some hours in the mountains, at 1000 meters above sea level, spruces, bright sky, snow, sun, chilly air and... silence. No...
Sunday, January 22, 2012

Was Keynes wrong?

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... audio-sake, maybe:-) Supply and demand? Market laws seems to do not properly apply to audio... many audio gears, amps, turntables, cartr...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

R.I.P. Dept. - Gustav Leonhardt passed away on January 16th...

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The great harpsichordist, organist and conductor, the man of great taste who, with Frans Bruggens, Wieland and Sigiswald Kujiken, Kees Otten...
Monday, January 16, 2012

Ears and hearing - Ayman Abaza and Arun Ross' ears (a)symmetry

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Thanking my friend Massimo and his truffles nose... A truly great essay...
Sunday, January 15, 2012

A new "pusher" in town: Boris' Beczar Rare Recordings and Music Society

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From the ashes of the mythical "Crash Records", the second hand and rare vinyls (and disks) shop in medieval down town Padua (Ital...

... more Tango... MCT-999 revamped!

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Years ago I had a Tango MCT-999 moving coil transformers/step-up and... well, NOW I understand I didn't listen to it, actually. I listen...
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Saturday, January 14, 2012

Garrard 301... more tips on taming chassis vibes

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From David, an Australian friend... a great, GREAT job of cleverly deadening job underside a 301's chassis. ... when one pix tells more ...
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Thomas Mayer's (new) crossover: first listenings

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... so, after one week since Thomas delivered his crossover, I had only the possibility to set up without the TacT's RCS XP 2.2, as the ...
Thursday, January 12, 2012

The MIGHTY Grundig RT-50 tuner

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A good second place, sonically and considering building quality, after Marantz 10B... also using tubes, it's a true beauty, old timey an...
Sunday, January 8, 2012

Music and its tools - making of a confortable thumb-pick

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Zen and elegant short instruction video from UK...

Beaconos - a cool horns (and conventional) speakers manufacturer

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A new manufacturer... Cool bass enclosure... maybe using a tad too much MDF:-), but kosher !

Simon Reynolds' "Retromania"

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Is pop and rock, as among the purer of pure art form of freedom and expression, dead? Is rock living on its own ashes and self-destructing i...
Thursday, January 5, 2012

Wall-E

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I simply loved it...
Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Thomas Mayer's Triptycon

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Thomas recently posted in his Blog an article about the making of my new crossover , another step toward that M-U-S-I-C ideal, a goal of a l...