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Interesting to see Great Plains Audio made it all the way over there. I have seen them sometimes at the Axpona show near Chicago (go every year) but they seem so un-European. From what I have heard...

My favorite industrial designer with my favorite design of his, Raymond Lowey with his GG1. Worth seeing twice! This I have seen in person.

The phenomenal vocalist Lisa Gerrard (best known as half of Dead Can Dance) has made original contributions to the art of the vocal, but one of the more unusual is an original language. She often...

Of course I am an outlier in this opinion. It increased in intensity over the decades as I was bombarded with endless admirations for what audio equipment looked like. Another tiresome influence were...

When I was in film classes in the late 1960s, the unobtainably expensive (for an art school student) Nagra III off site tape recorder dazzled me with its goof-proof, spartan controls and workmanlike...

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(A great deal of my listening involves this as well. Usually the...

There is more. In 2003 she returned to performing and recorded at least through 2013. She is 77 now.

Thank you for the tip. I have been streaming her on Amazon Music and she is a very interesting...

I might be pleading guilty to, culturally speaking, falling off a truckload of turnips, but lo-fi is new to me. At first I thought it was nostalgia for vinyl's sonic imperfections, but it seems...

I have long considered the Uilleann Pipes to be like the pipe organ. Extreme manual dexterity and multitasking are a prerequisite to expressive playing. Upon hearing a performance it is difficult to...

There was a bump or two in my personal Kaki journey recently. I had a ticket to each of two tour stops near the end of January (the two within reach, Central Illinois and Eastern Iowa) but she had to...

This came out three years ago but I found it only last month, streaming on Amazon Music HD. The CD is Elsa Martin (pronounced mar-TEEN, they are Italians) handling vocals and Stefano Battaglia on...

I could rephrase a little and say that I could hear the vinyl noise if I thought about it, but listening to music took my full aural attention and it was not within my realm of consciousness. I have...

Absolutely, or Plus 1 as it is said around here.

One comparison easy to make is to sample over time a really accomplished personal listening system. Experience perfect time alignment, zero room...

Yes, and 4K video was described as like looking through a window. Truth be told, we don't even see in 4K.

I found the book Perfecting Sound Forever by Greg Milner a meaningful dive into what those...

I could not agree more, I enjoy listening to 1930s recordings if the music is great.

Even so, I continue to be let down over how few music enthusiasts seek reproduction that attempts to follow as...

I have two Touch Gen 4s but they got too old to work with current streaming services at full functionality. (You know, Apple's deliberate obsolescence. "Update the software again? No, buy the new...

This article from September 2019 in Esquire is depressing in many respects, not the least being the dreadful musical taste of the author when he was thirteen. Only one musician he cites as forgotten...

Ken, your quest to make qualified accordion replacements for foam surrounds sounds fantastic. As an amateur user of JBL professional gear, foam has been a pain in my audio ass since forever. I have...

A gorgeous Emily Remler set from 1978. Hard to believe she was already this great at twenty or twenty-one. It appears to be at a busy event but the sound is good and Jazz Guitar's most melodic player...

I noticed Widget's post about the box of CDs tonight and now I know too. What communications he and I had on the forums had been fun and friendly for many years now. We were pretty close in age but I...

This is a snapshot of my 2019 model iPod Touch and old Etymotic Hf5 in ears. Not visible is a streaming service and my Wi-fi. The streaming service is CD quality (see Harry Nyquist) and offers...

The dreaded Auto-Tune thoughtfully presented so as to reveal the facts and truth of it. A subject where blurted opinions and sound bites don't cut it. One such treatment, for instance, truthfully...

I wonder if the outboard machines are sixteen inch transcription disk tables. I think it would be a safe assumption that everything was UK made.

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The obvious difference with the First Watt F5 is coupling capacitors. There are none. No need to fret over boutique caps when the amplifier section has no caps at all. The flat to DC specification...