Adventures in Mid-Fi Valve Goodness
As you undoubtedly know and vividly remember, I purchased a rather unwieldy and monstrous early nineties power amp last year: the glorious and terrribly powerful Marantz SM-80. Remember the beast?...
View ArticleChina delivers. Again.
Hello! The tubification of the household continues. After the introduction of one of Aric Audio‘s pre-amplifiers to the livingroom’s audio chain I was on a roll: what I needed now was similar tubey,...
View ArticleJazz Under The Dome
It often astonishes me how much good music is out there, lying around in charity shops, often for sale for a pittance. I often wondered what it must feel like as an artist to find the product of...
View ArticleUnboxing the Pinebook64
So last week a package was delivered to my work place. It came in a padded envelope and was addressed to me from someone in Hongkong. That’s usually a good thing. As it turns out, is was. Mmmmh. What...
View ArticleMatt Bianco: Gravity
It’s only been 7 months since Mark Fisher’s death, and we already have new Matt Bianco album. I didn’t know what to think about that. For me, Matt Bianco meant Mark Fisher’s catchy keyboard harmonies...
View ArticleThe Interstellar Age
Since my first encounter with Star Trek in the early seventies, Astronomy, Planetary Science and Astrophysics were all academic careers that I secretly coveted. Wouldn’t it be amazing to slowly but...
View ArticleThe cheapest 15.6 inch laptop ever?
I recently discovered the joys of Chinese online distributors. It’s not really my fault, but Germany’s leading technology magazine “C’T” featured one of their yearly robotic vacuum cleaner tests in...
View ArticleThe T-Bao TBook R8 – 5 Weeks On
It’s been 5 weeks since that nice gentleman from DPD delivered the epitomy of chinese computing to my doorstep. Since then it has aquired a few scratches, admiring looks in the office, and I have a bit...
View ArticleJust as an update…
Remember my review of the T-Bao TBook R8? Unfortunately its keyboard and mousepad stopped working a few weeks after my last post, and it’s now living a rather sad (but useful) life as a printerserver....
View ArticleChina Crisis’s ‘Autumn in the Neighbourhood’
China Crisis is a band that these days only of people of a certain age – often already with grandchildren – remember. It’s the temporal equivalent of my grandfather telling me about Glen Miller. The...
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