Month: January 2024

Alex Halberstadt (front) listens to the BAACH-SP Adio system at High End Munich. (Photo: Jason Victor Serinus) If you’re going to Germany to immerse yourself “Brilliant Corners #6: Munich from the Back of the Bus”

When I bumped into long-time industry member Alan Kafton of Audio Excellence/The Cable Cooker, he urged to check out a new loudspeaker company, Songer Audio “Songer Audio + AlexSound Technology Wows the Serinus”

Depuis plusieurs mois, les volcans présents en Islande se réveillent, suscitant l’inquiétude des autorités locales et des habitants. La ville de Grindavik a déjà été “Islande : comment le pays fait-il face au réveil de ses volcans ?”

“This actually sounds like music!” was the first thing I scribbled in my notebook. That might seem very bottom line, as in “I would sure “Shelley’s Stereo’s Outstanding Active Linn System”

A newborn baby was killed at a hospital in Vilnyansk, located in the the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, when a Russian airstrike hit the building “A newborn baby was killed at a Ukrainian hospital during a Russian airstrike, officials say”

Dave Lombardo: Rites of Percussion Ipecac IPC-265 (Auditioned as LP). 2023. Lombardo, prod.; Lombardo, David A. Lombardo, John Golden, engs. Performance ****½ Sonics ****½ In “Recording of July 2023: Rites of Percussion“

Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs; Final Scene from Capriccio Rachel Willis-Sørensen, soprano; Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Andris Nelsons, cond. Sony 824105 (CD, heard as 24/96 WAV download). “June 2023 Classical Record Reviews”

“We always wanted a distribution bar,” Stromtank CEO Wolfgang Meletzky explained as he held the device with Annett Dehmel, Stromtank Managing Director. “So, we developed “Stromtank’s New SEQ POWER 5 Distribution Bar”

This sign may not look auspicious, situated as it is over a trash basket. But this poster next to the exit stairs of the Kieferngarten “Munich High End 2023 Opens”

WALLINGFORD, CT — Days after failing to elect a new chairman, the Wallingford Town Council quickly elected its new leader in a special meeting on “New Council Chairman Elected In Wallingford”