In search of lost time
Different media, different practices.
Noah Fishman & Samuel Lundh
Noah and his Swedish buddy’s musical journey from Maine to Gothenburg.
SME 30/2A versus EMT 930st
Two turntables from the absolute top. Two different eras. One with a belt, the other with an idler. A unique comparison.
Munich Highend 2018
Part I: tape recorders, turntables, CD players.
Timmion Records
Vinyl record labels are springing up like mushrooms after the rain. Very few of them have their own Neumann’s cutting lathe.
Just rumours
The Quad 22 preamp’s underrated phono stage beats many much more expensive and fancier realizations.
Sorting out one’s record collection
There must be fifty ways to collate your record collection. Here are some suggestions.
Jorma Salmi (1948-2018)
One of the great minds of loudspeaker building, Jorma Salmi passed away on Sunday 27th May 2018. Along with him we lost not only an enormous amount of technical knowledge and understanding but also a civilized and a good-hearted man.
An icon
The history of Finnish loudspeaker manufacturing cannot be written without the Gradient 1-series.
Vitra Design Museum
Frank Gehry’s best deconstructivist work.
High End Stockholm 2018
Rooms that I remember. The best of the best.
Clocks ticking
Time composed and decomposed. By Petri Kuljuntausta.
Hidden sounds
Christina Kubisch lectures on inaudible and imperceptible sounds at CAMP high in the French Pyrenees.
Beginning of sound
Improvising over complex rhythms and forms.
Trajectories
Waller writes music for calm moments and seemingly reflective moods.
Brilliant Scriabin
When brilliance is a property of the music, it’s marvelous. As a property of the sound, annoying.
Nosov’s orthogonal design
As to loudspeakers, everything worth inventing has been invented. Mr. V. Nosov disagrees.
MIMStuudio
Where technology, theatre, applied art, sound art and new media meet.
Between extremes
One of the most significant composers of his generation, Erkki-Sven Tüür makes music that proceeds from particular to universal.
Terminal shop
A new hope for record lovers in Tallinn.
Passionate about the sound
Hifi Stuudio is one of the major hi-fi dealer shops in Tallinn, Estonia.
Vivo l’Estonie
The irresistible charm of single driver speakers shows no signs of withering away. A fairly recent temptation originates from Estonia and is called Vivo.
Creative non-adaptiveness
Children of the Flowers of Evil is an insightful trip to Estonian Decadent Art. A strong case for technological pessimism?
Audiokinetica
Music, art, engineering. In all of us.
Quasi Beatles
Jaan Rääts angled piano sonatas.
Musical Reference EM7
A 6SN7 and a 300B in one glass bottle. Modesty or ingenuity?
A mad scientist
Is he interesting? Is it music?
Munchen HE 2017 – the best
As the year goes by, the third and the last report of the Munich Highend 2017 show.
A woman of heart and mind
‘She says she’s leavin’ but she don’t go’.
Circus screams
Screams rend the air, blood stains the ground, and the show goes on.