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September 9, 2022

The Horn Project: A Design Interview with Fern & Roby

There’s something nostalgic and mysterious about horn loudspeakers. Despite, historically, their industrial build quality, brutalist design aesthetic and domestically imposing dimensions, they nonetheless evoke a sense of wonder and awe with their sonic capabilities.

October 6, 2022

Vintage Hi-fi in a Modern Iran

While being one of the oldest civilizations known to mankind, dating back to the fourth millennium BC, Iran is nonetheless thoroughly modern in its tastes for high fidelity. Yet some seek a musical path mixing the present with the past, curating vintage amplification and loudspeakers into their modern set ups.

November 15, 2022

Listening Space: Markus Driessen – North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

You may ask someone what a listening space is, but the answer would be as different as every person you asked. For some it could be a public venue, for others a private one. And for others yet, it is less corporeal and more abstract – an idea, a state of mind. A mirage.

January 14, 2023

Listening Space: Terry Tan – Miri Sarawak, Malaysia

Much like a Haruki Murakami novel, the main characters of a curated sound system are brought together with a purpose which is not always readily apparent, and only through the investment of learned association can one necessarily reveal motive and purpose.