Howard Popeck: Hello Jo. At short notice, thank you for taking the time … Jo Lang: I have a bit of time right now so I thought I would respond to your kind invitation. You are as I understand it, that rare individual who is an audiophile maker blogger; am I correct? […]
Month: May 2022
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Vertere Acoustics delivers new Imperium Motor Drive ouraj Moghaddam Vertere’s founder and chief designer today announced plans to start delivering the new Imperium Motor Drive this month. Imperium follows quite closely behind the new SG-PTA tonearm and VeRum interconnect as the ideal products to match the Vertere SG-1 record player. Demand for the latest Motor Drive, […]
Turn the preamp level all the way up and use the DAC for volume control or the opposite? Turns out it all depends on what kind of preamp you have and how much attention was paid to its controls. Watch Now
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On the periphery of exotic upgrades is the external power supply. Sometimes this supply is bigger and more powerful than what’s standard inside products, but more often than not it’s simply the only means of powering a product. A wall wart is a great example. In my experience, the first use of an external power […]
New flagship CD player revealed MCD12000: A new reference-level CD/SACD player with seven digital inputs plus solid-state and valve outputs (£13,995) Images here McIntosh has unveiled its new flagship CD/SACD player the MCD12000 SACD/CD Player. The new disc-spinner effectively doubles as McIntosh’s reference-level DAC, by enabling up to seven digital devices to benefit from its […]
Touraj Moghaddam Vertere’s founder and chief designer today announced the new Silencer equipment supports. These and an Iso-Shelf are part of the demo record player system in Atrium 4.1 E121. The Vertere Iso-shelf sits under a record player supported by low profile Iso-balls or the superior Silencers.Silencer is available now in packs of 3, selling for […]
Neil McCormick meets guitarist Jimmy Page and finds the band sounding more thrilling than ever http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopmusic/10862455/Jimmy-Page-We-knew-that-no-band-had-ever-sounded-like-Led-Zeppelin.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BvXBwtrs_k 1,420,259 views so far “This DVD reminded me why I was an REM fan in the first place. Recorded in Germany in 2003, the concert features plenty of hits (Man on the Moon, One I Love), some obscurities (Begin the Begin, Maps & Legends) and some recent songs I hadn’t paid enough attention to […]
Between the mid 1960s and the late 1970s, the long-playing record and the albums that graced its grooves changed popular music for ever. For the first time, musicians could escape the confines of the three-minute pop single and express themselves as never before across the expanded artistic canvas of the album. The LP allowed popular […]
Limited Edition(3500 copies) 4×180 Gram High QualityAudiophile Virgin Vinyl LP Bernie Grundman Remaster Pressed at Pallas, Germany Housed in Telescoping box Time Fades Away On The Beach Tonight’s The Night ZumaThis limited edition box set includes the classic albums: Time Fades Away, On The Beach, Tonight’s The Night and Zuma, each remastered from the original […]
“The maverick and eccentric Percy Grainger rated himself more highly than Mozart and Tchaikovsky” MORE
They tell us ….. Following the hugely anticipated Early Years collection, Pink Floyd now release the 6 individual collections that were first released as part of ‘The Early Years 1965-1972’ box set. Whether a fan of the early Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd, or to the final moments before ‘The Dark Side of The Moon’, […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0QmS63op5U 62,021 views so far “J’apprécie cette vidéo d’autant plus que j’ai eu la chance de voir, John Mayall, sur scène à Metz en 1970. Inoubliable…..j’avais vint ans. Proud to be a John Mayall fan. He always surrounded himself with first class musicians & ‘inspired’ the best from them. This video is mighty !!! Thanks […]
A short documentary asking the simple question- Why Vinyl? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUIMbwvYVOI A few viewer comments: Buying a CD is like throwing money away. The CD is a dying medium, the sales decline since many years, while downloads, streaming and vinyl sales are growing strong. Who needs a physical copy of digital data anyway and even pays […]
In this lesson we’ll be exploring the idea of the two-chord jam, specifically a Dorian jam, using the chords Am and D. If this jam sounds familiar, it should. Dorian is the sound Santana used in “Evil Ways” and “Oye Como Va.” Even Frank Zappa used it in the aptly titled composition, “Variations on the […]