Lo-Fi recording, transferred by Columbia to LP from shellac sources. In parallel with such 10 ‘long-playing records, 10’ albums of 78-rpm records were released. The recording on shellac was more full-bodied and expressive, but something remained even on the LP. Despite the extreme technical imperfection of the recording, Wilson’s drive is well felt and pleasantly excites the nervous system.
Author: Anton Stepichev
Stan Kenton – Artistry Jamps, 1950th LP
The “Battle of the bands” compilation would have been nothing if it hadn’t been for this track, which was surprisingly inspired and recorded on very interesting, unusually clear-sounding equipment. The sound engineer can be blamed for overloading the orchestral tutti, but what a perfect piano turned out and how it perfectly sounds. What a clean, expressive saxophone and energetically charged rhythm section!
Chet Baker With Strings, 1954 LP
Philips B 07034 L mid-1950s (original album-Columbia, 1954), the condition of the disc is below average. From an audiophile point of view, it is interesting to listen to “You don’t know what love is” where the accompanying orchestra is recorded cleanly and clearly.
Flat spring tonearm
Precision tonearm based on a flat spiral spring for high-quality playback of warped 78 records. The design allows you to follow Vector orientation of the tonearm parts as accurately as possible and, as a result, achieve high clarity of the sound of the system as a whole.
Chet Baker Sings, 1954 LP
NEW – Energophone take – 28-02-2020
A great album, both in terms of cool jazz music and the quality of the recording. The original monophonic record. The pearl of the album – "My Funny Valentine", in my opinion, is generally the best version of this song. The most purely recorded is "I get along."
Hiroyasu Kondo 1942-2006
The buddhist monk's professor of electronics and metal science, founder of Audio Note. Thanks in large part to Hiroyas Kondo, HI-FI by the end of the 20th century had not completely turned towards transistor-digital reproduction and standard, engineering thinking.
Audio Note ideology
My reflections on HI-FI
Sakuma Susumu 1943-2018
Sakuma became a cult HI-FI personality thanks to numerous public auditions ("concerts") of his audio systems, first in Japan and later in Europe. Sakuma's concerts opened the eyes to many that sound production is an art and that recording can evoke as much emotion as live music evokes. He is the author of 40 articles published in the journal Musen to Jikken.
Sakuma's Ideology
Peter Qvortrup
Founder of Audio Note UK, an idea development company, Hiroiasu Kondo. He had a noticeable influence on the formation of the Russian subjective HI-FI in the 1990s.
1993 – Road to Audioad
Interview quotes
Anatoly Markovich Likhnitsky (AML) 1936-2013
He led the development of the first HI-FI components in the USSR: the “Brig 001” amplifier, the “Corvet 003” recordplayer, the “Corvet 008” cartridge. He is the author of 15 inventions, 80 scientific articles and two books, an audio-engineer of the highest degree with unique for his profession, non-standard thinking. AML made an invaluable contribution to the development of subjective HI-FI, was the first who justified the existence of intangible phenomena in audio technology logically, thanks to the impeccable knowledge of radio electronics, and not intuitively, as do Kondo and Sakuma. During the last years of his life he repeatedly defended his point of view in discussions with colleagues who consider audio anomalies self-suggestion and PR.
1998 – Citationsons
1998 – Four levels of perception (from the book – Sound quality…)
2000 – Telefunken – Life After Death
2000 – Sound Formula
2001 – High End dies, long live High End
2001 – Seven words about audio examination errors
2003 – Reflections on sound coloring
2003 – Brilliant Recordings
2006 – Why am I convinced of the correctness of Anton Stepichev's contour system?
2007 – Materialism vs esoteric!
2009 – AML short-way ideology
1998 – Four levels of perception (from the book – Sound quality…)
2000 – Telefunken – Life After Death
2000 – Sound Formula
2001 – High End dies, long live High End
2001 – Seven words about audio examination errors
2003 – Reflections on sound coloring
2003 – Brilliant Recordings
2006 – Why am I convinced of the correctness of Anton Stepichev's contour system?
2007 – Materialism vs esoteric!
2009 – AML short-way ideology
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We are studying the directivity effect, as well as other subjective effects observed in Radio Electronics, Acoustics, and Optics. In our opinion, the Directivity is the most important of the “known unknowns” in these sciences, the most cognitive and interesting phenomenon for research.