Woohoo! Bought a used Pro-Ject 1.2 turntable (above, with Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s single Me and My Imagination) and a Pro-Ject Phono Box II (not in picture) a few days ago! Got one foot into the wonderful world of LPs and I couldn’t be any happier.
Now I need to get a new cartridge, more LPs, an LP [...]
Entries from July 2007
July 26, 2007
OH HELLS YEAH!
July 25, 2007
What’s in my bag :)
Row 1: Bag, cap
Row 2: Umbrella, wallet, cardholder, iPod
Row 3: Empty bottle of green tea, wrist pouch for tiny things, mobile phone, fishermen’s friend, the picturehouse movie ticket holder, undeveloped rolls of film (which I should send for developing soon…)
July 21, 2007
Give me more capsule!
This has got to be the best music ever written in recent times. I love capsule! They are the premiere Shibuya-kei artists! Too bad their recent music doesn’t reflect this anymore, but still! There’s a whole dicography full of sugar saccharine sweet but very cool tunes which are my daily shot of happiness!
Capsule - Plastic Girl
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July 12, 2007
just pure genius, or a whole load of nonsense?
01. High-resolution
02. Depth
03. Mid-range purity
04. Naturalness
05. Transparency
06. Presence
07. Visceral Impact
08. Rhythm and Pace
09. Focus
10. Holographic Imaging
11. Transients
12. Bass resonance
13. Dynamic range
How much of that is actually because of the music rather than the recording?
July 7, 2007
audiophilism – worse than photography
Yesterday was a fun day. My brother got to know an audiophile friend during his internship and yesterday he came over with his equipment for a jolly good “my speakers are better than yours!” test session.
Equipment: Linn Classik source, Linn Katan speakers, dynaudio Audience 52 speakers, SlimDevices Squeezebox.
Music: Chesky Records’ Ultimate Demonstration Disc, various digital files in mp3, [...]
