Ortofon SPU cartridges have maintained there production through years. There must be a reason to that. Is it only about the historical aspect ? Certainly not, but it is also true that the earliest Ortofon SPU-A and SPU-G are most desirable, most sought after because of there particular sound. These cartridges are rather robust and […]
What can you do when your precious cartridge has a worn out diamond, a bended cantilever, or even worse : a missing cantilever ? Let’s not forget about dried out suspension (rotten dampers), open coils, twisted coil formers, etc, etc… Moving Magnet (MM) cartridges are most of the time an easy fix as changing the stylus can be […]
I do remember quite well my first encounter with Jacques Ledauphin in February 2013. He is some kind of tutelar figure in the pantheon of French audiophilia. For those who do not know him, Jacques is a well known French audiophile who developed among other things horns, multi amp with analog and digital crossovers speakers and of […]
I just discovered this Kisckstarter project : Jérôme Sabbagh limited edition vinyl album of the Turn and I thought that I should share it with you. These are the opening words of Jérôme : “Last year, I recorded The Turn, my third album with my longtime jazz quartet featuring Ben Monder, Joe Martin and Ted […]
I just wanted to share with you that Cala has teamed up with Felix which will be know working on the design of new upcoming Cala Mighty Sound products… Welcome aboard to Felix “Rupperthal” !
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 […]
In-between the Lenco Heaven Belgium meet and my trip to the German audio mafia. I did a stop by Uwe‘s place. And guess what… I had some surprises. Bubinga Uwe headshell First one is that a new wood for headshells is available : the Bubinga… Here are the first photos: This new headshell has very close […]
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 […]
