March 30, 2024
March 30, 2024
One autumn day, it was the ’60s, I was in primary school and with my parents we went to the store of the big company where my father worked. My parents purchased a mono system from Lesa with built-in turntable 33 RPM, 45 RPM, 78 RPM and flap needle. it would be my first turntable for years. One day my mother said something that got into my blood – “…Remember Stefano, better one steak less and one more record."
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November 1, 2023
November 1, 2023
The do-it-yourself ethic is enjoying a renaissance in the realm of high fidelity thanks to the likes of Devon Turnbull and entrepreneurs like Shivas Howard Brown. Based out of London, England, Brown’s Friendly Pressure start up focuses on modular hybrid horn loudspeakers influenced by vintage Tannoy, JBL and Altec designs.
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September 22, 2023
September 22, 2023
Sometimes a book enters one’s life and changes or affects our lexicon, and how we lens the world around us. Experiencing Gigli with Quality Audio, authored by Paul James PhD, is just such a book for me.
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August 16, 2023
August 16, 2023
Music is a religion. It has followers, disciples. There are believers, true believers and fundamentalists. Each of us when asked why we listen to music, responds in their own way, based on how much music fills our thoughts, moments.
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June 26, 2023
June 26, 2023
Cicely Balston knows a thing or two about the mystique surrounding the mastering process, having been at the cutter-head helm on hundreds of albums, first at Gearbox Records, and now at Sir George Martin’s AIR Studios in Hampstead, London.
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May 23, 2023
May 23, 2023
Zimy, real name Mike Zimmer, transforms mundane LP shipping boxes into abstract, painted travelogues. Every cardboard sleeve a graphic translation of the cover art of said LP being sold. He is, as far as I know, the only person going to the trouble of illustrating his shipping boxes on Discogs.
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May 11, 2023
May 11, 2023
Tom Wong, Winston Cooper, Duke Vin – men who shaped the nascent Jamaican sound system culture of the ’50s and ‘60s. Seven decades on, New York City DJ, speaker and amplifier designer Mo Yasin, is channeling the zeitgeist of that unique island movement.
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