Italian conductor, Claudio Abbado died in Bologna on 2014-01-20 at the age of 80 after a long illness.
Abbado, from Milan, made his debut at La Scalla in 1960. Among the orchestras which he conducted are:
He also recorded for Deutche Gramaphon, Decca and Sony, and received numerous awards, including two Grammys.… Read the full post
Google’s Big Picture Group has produced a Music Timeline. This is an interactive visualisation of how the popularity of various music genres has varied over time.
The Music Timeline is based on statistics collected from Google Play Music. While the timeline is based only on this source, and while it doesn’t include a major genre like classical music it porvides an interesting view of what kinds of music people list to.… Read the full post
The H80 integrated amplifier from Hegel Music Systems of Norway is on demonstration at Serious Music!
The H80 provides balanced and single-ended Read the full post
The new DALI Kubik Free and has many connectivity options and can be used in several different ways. Check out the new DALI Kubik Free image film on YouTube, which shows some of the ways you might use the Kubik Free.
You can also see this YouTube video which shows the Kubik Free product features.… Read the full post
M2Tech has introduced the Young DSD at CES 2014.
The Young DSD supports DSD/64 and DSD/128, both native. It also plays all common PCM data rates up to 24/384 and 32/384 and DXD (24/352.8 and 32/352.8).… Read the full post
The DALI Fazon Sat is now on demonstration at Serious Music!
The Fazon Sat is a two-way speaker with a 4½” mid/woofer with wood fibre cone and an oversized 28mm/1.1” soft dome tweeter with a powerful neodymium magnet system, both using the same technology as the drivers used in DALI’s acclaimed MENTOR and IKON speakers.… Read the full post
The new DALI Kubik Free and Kubik Xtra are on demonstration at Serious Music!
Since it’s recent introduction the Kubik Free, DALI’s first powered speaker, has received several positive reviews and awards. Here are some of them:
Ortofon AS, is the world leader in the development and manufacture of phono cartridges.
Ortofon was founded as the Electrical Phono Film Company on the 9th of October 1918 by two Danish engineers, Axel Petersen and Arnold Poulsen.
Here’s a short YouTube video that celebrates Ortofon’s 95th anniversary.
© Wayne Butcher… Read the full post
