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January 2012 |
Finally
and long awaited, my listening impressions of the outstanding Haigner
Gamma horn loudspeakers! |
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December 2011 |
New
article about a comparison
of three musical DACs (Lampizator
Level 4, Metrum Acoustic Octave Mini and Martin Küng DAC) added.
Have fun reading this one! |
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November 2011 |
The
"Gear for Sale"-page
can now be directly accessed through a dedicated button in the
menu-toolbar. Feel free to check out what's currently for sale :-) |
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November 2011 |
The
European Triode Festival (ETF) was held the 3rd time end of November
in Stella Plage (north of France). Unfortunately, I couldn't
participate this year. What I've heard from friends, who
participated, it was an excellent and fun festival with a wonderful
main theme "Vintage Audio". Here is a link to Triodefestival.net
with some further links including great photo impressions. |
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October 2011 |
I
added a new article about Martin
Küng, the master of
upgrades. "Pimp my audio gear" so to say... ;-) |
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September / October 2011 |
DAC
comparison planned. As it looks, I will have a chance to compare the
much raved Metrum Acoustic Octave DAC, Martin Küng's new DAC and
Lukasz Fikus' famous Lampizator DAC Level 3.5 and 4 (both with tube
output stage) in different digital configurations (with CD-player as
drive as well as with an high level Audio PC as source). So please,
stay tuned... |
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August 2011 |
As
my audio inventory needs reduction, I started a new page on my site
called Audio
Gear & Parts for Sale. So,
have a look (page will be updated regularly) |
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July 2011 |
Finally,
a new
article is ready! This time about
David Haigner and my listening experiences with his 3-way monitor Tau. |
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July 2011 |
I
recently bought great music on CD which I would like to recommend to
you. The project behind is called Playing
for Change (PFC) "Songs
around the World". I bought both CDs, PFC which was published
2008, 2009 and PFC2 which was released 2011. The recordings were done
by enthusiastic people during their traveling around the world and
recording as well as filming gifted musicians in their local neighborhoods.
Regarding
the extreme use of compression in recordings please read John
Marks' great Stereophile article on the Loudness Wars. |
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March 2011 |
My
Favorite Links
page was recently updated. Under the heading "Audio
Magazines & Audio Blogs" I
added the link to Thomas Mayer's new vacuum tube audio blog.
Great blog and superb information on his tube amplifier designs.
Definitely worth to visit! |
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December 2010 |
Here is an update of my experience with the Thomas Mayer 801A SE stereo amplifier. Definitely a rare species of amp when musicallity is an important criteria for you.
I
also added two photos of Thomas Mayer's latest amplifier design with
30 Watts of affordable SE magic, at the end of this
page. |
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November 2010 |
My
friend Alexander and I had a blast at the Lenco Heaven Meet in
Brussels, another wonderful event for music and audio lovers. We met
great people, had fun listening to wonderful Lenco-based systems,
enjoyed good beer and the famous Belgian cuisine. Visit the Lenco
Heaven Forum, it's in my opinion
one of the best internet-forums around, focusing on vintage Lencos
but also on a variaty of other audio topics including music. |
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August 2010 |
A
bit late but worth a read. You will find my report on the Vienna
Vibes Festival here |
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May 2010 |
A
trip to Munich on the weekend of the High-End turned out to be a fun
musical journey. Find
out more... |
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May 2010 |
Finally,
I had some time to update the Favorite
Gear - Analog
page. Some of Thomas Mayer's tube amp designs as well as the
good old Lenco L75 have been added... |
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April 2010 |
I
recently had two opportunities to listen to David Haigner's new
3-way monitors in more detail. These monitors were also demonstrated
at the Klangbilder 2009
audio show in Vienna last November (see a photo here).
What shall I say. These speakers are a music fan's dream come true.
100% time aligned they are the best 3-way monitors I've ever heard.
Period! They work with transistor amps stunningly and are a superb
match for tube amps from 7 watts on. If you come to Vienna, it's a
must to hear these speakers... |
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April 2010 |
You
want to see more of Thomas Mayer's preamp designs? I added some more
photos of a new LCR RIAA phono stage based on the 6AM4 triode and a
universal line stage (which can use different directly heated
triodes) at the end of this
page. |
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February 2010 |
More
photo impressions of
Thomas Mayer's latest designs added (to be found at the end of that page). |
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November 2009 |
Top of the line tube amps. Some photo impressions of Thomas Mayer designs. Awesome!
Nov.
8th, 2009:
Nov.
22nd, 2009: |
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October 2009 |
Update
on improvements to Joe's Dream Audio System can be found here |
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September 2009
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Tube
Amp Lovers this report is for you! A description as well as
auditioning notes re. the superb
tube amps Thomas Mayer has designed. |
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August 2009 |
Finally,
the report of the Berlin
'School of Sound' Audio Fest
is online. Enjoy reading it... |
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June 2009 |
Report
and photos of the Berlin 'School of Sound' festival, May 22 to
May 24, 2009 will follow hopefully soon |
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June 2009 |
Update
of the Current
System page by adding photos
of my current 2009 system |
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January 2009 |
Report
of the 2nd
"Schall & Rauch" festival
in Munich in Oct. 2008 added to the Interesting Topics section |
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November 2008 |
Here's
the link to the 6moons.com
article on David Haigner's
Rho speakers. If you love low powered tube amps and are interested in
some technical background on speaker design this is a great read... |
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September 2008 |
Tentlabs
SPDIF problem solved. Read my comments at the end of my March/April report "Building
TentLabs' Musical DIY CD Player" |
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July 2008 |
David Haigner's Rho, his "budget" 2 way horn speaker design was excellently reviewed in the German High End magazine "Image Hifi" (No. 82, 4/2008) by Roland Kraft. Although 90 dB efficiency only, Mr. Kraft found this easy to drive speaker the right partner especially for tube amps between 6 and 15 watts.
Another
Rho test in the highly regarded internet audio magazine 6moons.com
is forthcoming. I will keep you updated... |
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April 2008 |
Martin
Küng's modified Micromega Variodac added to the
'Digital Analogue Converters' section of the Favorite
Digital Gear page |
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March / April 2008 |
Building
TentLabs' Musical DIY CD Player (read the report here) |
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March 2008 |
Because
music rules: I have decided to stay with my old car, a 1990 BMW 318,
and instead order David Haigner's forthcoming horn loudspeaker
system, the Gamma. I can't wait to get the speakers this winter and
will definitely report on my experience... (Meanwhile, feel free to
check out Mr.Haigner's
new website) |
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January 2008 |
Impressions
of a fun "shootout" of different affordable power amp
designs as well as David Haigners latest "budget" speaker
creation named Rho can be found here. |
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November 2007 |
A
review of David Haigner's Beta Horn LS system can be found in the
German audio magazine LP (issue 1/2008) and the review does these
awesome speakers justice. If you live in Germany, Switzerland or
Austria and you like horn systems, go for this issue of the LP magazine. |
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November 2007 |
Report
of the 1st
"Schall & Rauch" festival
in Munich added to the Interesting Topics section |
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October 2007 |
Favorite
Gear section: The Cartridge Man's Music Maker III cartridge added to
the end of Favorite
Analog Gear;
also a
new page for Favorite
Digital Gear added |
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September 2007 |
Interesting
Topics section: More Alpha horn listening impressions added to the 'Haigner
Alpha and Beta Horn Systems'
article of March 2007 (at the end of the article) |
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May 2007 |
Interesting
Topics section: 'Follow
up on Joe's Dream Loudspeaker System
- Improvements since January 2006' added to the Interesting Topics section |
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