We all have some fond memories, some teenage dreams. Mine were partly Scottish : something about the monster of the Loch Ness mixed with heavy malted odors of brewery and distillery during school trips when we were only allowed to drink glasses of concentrated orange juice that would feel as bad in my stomach […]
Sometime you follow an artist for years and you kind of get used to what he makes on records. Then out of the blue, there is something new that just pops out. The problem with Mark Kozelek is that there is definitely a few times that it did indeed “just popped out”. Moving from the […]
Porte-cellules Uwe en ébène, bois d’amourette et panzerholz Choisir un porte-cellule est un exercice qui peut-être un peu délicat. En effet la matière, la forme, le parti pris mécanique, mais aussi la masse du porte-cellule vont avoir des effets sensibles sur la restitution sonore de votre système. Introduction sommaire à la mécanique d’un bras de […]
Entre le meeting du forum Lenco Heaven en Belgique et mon périple au sein de la mafia audiophile allemande, j’ai pu m’arrêter chez Uwe qui m’a présenté ses dernières créations. – Porte cellule en bubinga : Voici donc les premières photos du nouveau porte-cellule en bois de bubinga disponible dès à présent via Cala Mighty […]
As I was listening to my Malachite Uwe stone-body with a simple Denon 103, I was just amazed by the shear musicality of this cartridge on my Proac tablettes. I drive them with a Luxman MQ-3600 power amp. It is supposed to be a PP of NEC 8045 valves but as these are really scarce, it […]
I do not know if you heard the news but Ikea as decided to part with the Expedit range of shelves…. This is terrible news as I have grown used to regularly buy new Expedit shelves to stock my records. My sources ? Here and apparently german forums. Until then here are a few sweets just to cheer us up… This […]
Thomas – Ok. You asked for blue? (heavy german accent) Me – Yes, Thomas. (à la French) Thomas – Are you vertig? (very solemn) Me – Yes Thomas… (getting seriously worried) Thomas – Allez, les Bleus. Louis XIV – Le bras, c’est moi (Perfect german French accent… and nearly perfect quotation of the French king […]
I had quite a few requests about Schick plinths designed for the Garrard 301. Here is one of the first plinths photos. It is designed for a 12″ tonearm with, here, a Schick tonearm armboard. Armboards can be designed to fit nearly any tonearm fixation pattern. As you can see the plinth is CNC cut to […]
We all have a CD that we would dream to have in vinyl, or why not in shellac ( remember the Monophonic experience ? ) … And well one day it is really available in record(s) and this is exactly what happened with the Chiarursco album of Arve Henriksen. Of course I discovered about it more than […]
Most vintage turntable users are (quite) obsessed in finding the best plinth available for there precious turntables. Common materials to deal with resonances and vibrations during record playback are mostly : wood, stone, metal or the very fashionable corian. Thomas Schick decided to go his own way. His main axis of research was effective damping. What […]
