Christian Rintelen is a Swiss-based freelance writer, AD, DIY audiophile and music lover with more than 1000 cover versions of the Blackwell’s Fever.
The sound may be essential to music, but in making a brilliant album so is the cover. And no cover can compete with a LP cover.
The new 1.4 pays tribute to Gradient’s older loudspeaker models and their objective qualities. An afternoon with the head designer Jorma Salmi.
Two turntables from the absolute top. Two different eras. One with a belt, the other with an idler. A unique comparison.
The Quad 22 preamp’s underrated phono stage beats many much more expensive and fancier realizations.
Analog sound devices are popular, and so is modularity. The sound artist Emma Souharce commands both the analogue and digital sound sources.
There must be fifty ways to collate your record collection. Here are some suggestions.
Vinyl record labels are springing up like mushrooms after the rain. Very few of them have their own Neumann’s cutting lathe.
