Pure sine tones
Ever wondered how prime numbers would sound? Greg Davis’ New Primes might give an answer.
Talking about Revolutions
Gradient from Finland has introduced a new version of their classic Revolution loudspeakers.
Sensory mixes of the future
Sougwen 愫君 Chung’s new large-scale kinetic installation features a new multi-robotic Drawing Operations Unit.
Stockholm HEM 2022
Stockholm Highend 2022 Fair was held as usual at the City Centre, on two locations.
Good old B&O
Gear from B&O’s past are much sought after.
Apollo and Dionysos
The story of Beogram 4000 is a story about the two sides of humanity and how they can be reconciled.
Skin deep
For the Asia-Europe 5 exhibition the skin is deep, and leaves a lasting impression.
4375:4374
When 0.396 cents matters.
Mad about horns
Famous for his garden scissors, Olavi Linden is a man of over hundred instruments, and horns are his obsession.
The power of naming
Marguerite Humeau’s new sound piece Weeds aims to make silenced and invisible knowledge visible. The solo exhibition opens today.
Coming of age
Penaudio now celebrating its 20th Anniversary, Sami Penttilä looks back to the youth, his own and the company’s.
Honorable sound from Denmark
A record number of exhibitors participated in the Copenhagen HighEnd 2019 fair.
A full-range ESL from Russia
The mighty Statik-2M electrostatic loudspeaker was born as a by-product of the military industry.
Stay tuned with the tube
Audiolici A1/A25 integrated amp adapts to the musical taste of the listener. Just swap the output tubes.
Joseph Haydn – Der Philosoph
The contemplative symphony begins atypically with a slow adagio movement.
Artome Cinema soundboards
Forget technology. Enjoy unforgettable films and music. Who says a soundbar needs to be an arm-thick black bar.
A surrealist and a composer
Only very few surrealists actually composed. The poet Andre Souris was one of them.
Not an ordinary resistor
Audio Note UK. A day at the factory, talking to Peter Qvortrup.
No sound is audible
The form does not follow the function, it outruns it!
Will this Fever ever end?
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.
Long live the LP cover
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.
David gegen Goliath
In German turntables there are Midsummer Dreams (Mendehlssohn) and flamboyant symphonies (Brahms). What happens when an elegant puny contester takes the measure of a bombastic tank (Bruckner)?
Defending the objective approach
The new 1.4 pays tribute to Gradient’s older loudspeaker models and their objective qualities. An afternoon with the head designer Jorma Salmi.
Mora Mor Amor
New music for a contemporary baroque orchestra. FIBO & Jukka Tiensuu.
Totality or nothing
When it is about everything, Louise Nevelson named it Totality. For the smaller collages she gave no name.
Eesti Rahva Muuseum
The new National Museum of Estonia is taking off from the old runway.
Reaching for the moon
Known for its sculptured loudspeakers, Estelon has set its ambitions very high in order to attain something that is not easily achievable.
Robert Jürjendal
When he’s playing guitar it doesn’t sound as if he were. A true guitar wizard with a big heart.
Theatre Bizarre
An immersive art installation of unprecedented scale summons the mystery of its notorious underground parties. Halloween in extreme.
Floating Synthese 2
The Synthese 2 looks bizarre as a loudspeaker but has a plausible explanation for its appearance.