hand driven gramophone circa 1894

female musicians never get laid

spotify & the future of music

tejas tubes

billy squier owns a Leben / DeVore system

show list austin

garage ‘a records

sex, cigars & booze

I built a new headphone display at the shop. Coming in to fill some gaps are the Grado SR 225i and SR 325is headphones. The new Grado PS500 cans are in. Headphone amps from Heed, Musical Fidelity, Avenson Audio, Furutech and Graham Slee are available for audition.

Graham Slee call themselves a niche manufacturer in audio electronics equipment – a tiny company compared with the giants of hi-fi, but in their first 12 years of trading they’ve sold over 20,000 products all individually hand made and fully tested by just three engineers.

Their no-BS approach coupled with unceasing research has resulted in a product range that consistently puts the world of high end audio to shame. Not only can they beat high end performance but they do it at a price more people can afford.

I just placed my first order. I will be getting more offerings in over the next several months.

I’m going to South Padre. I’ll be back Saturday the 26th. I’ll be checking email, not the phone.

patti smith: camera solo

what makes music boring?

secret green day show

2A3 maniac

The busy elves at Rega have announced details of the new RP6 turntable. The RP6 features the new RB303 Tonearm, 16mm thick glass platter, machined metal sub platter and redesigned TT PSU power supply.
The plinth will be available in the same variety of gloss finishes as the outgoing P3/24 Turntable including Gloss Black, White, Red, Silver, Blue, Pink, Orange, Yellow and Green. I’m not sure of the price, probably a few hundred more than the P3-24. I am now taking orders! Get on the list! They should be shipping in a few weeks.

Art Dudley reviewed the Leben CS-300 and RS-30EQ in Stereophile. Come hear them!

Leben CS-300
Leben RS30-EQ

Susumu Sakuma was hot rodding idler drives while they were still getting tossed in dumpsters or selling for cheap in the US and UK. He was building with triodes before it was hip. It would be a hell of a pilgrimage to travel to his coffee house in Japan…

Thanks Super T for this link!

Ho Ho Ho!!!

The Naim SuperUniti is in the house! Taking the Uniti line up a notch, The SuperNait got a facelift and now has all the flexability you need and the power you want. It’s warming up now and smacking around the DeVore Nines nicely!

Also coming in next week are the Zu Soul Superfly 101db speakers. I can’t wait to hook these up to my tube amps and watch em scream! 8 watts will make your ears bleed!!!

Quadraspire from Bath England have introduced a new green material for their shelves…Bamboo! The Q4Evo in bamboo are $250 per shelf and will be on the floor in a few days!

I shot this last night at the Continental Club. This was the first performance they’ve done in over 30 years!! Get their record on Heavy Light records!

Update! My clip has made it to the Lincoln Center Website! Cool!