Hifi

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Emotion

Music moves me. Different types of music can literally have me close to tears, or ecstatic. And I love the technology that provides me with these emotions.

Info & Demos

Amps built around the Texas Instruments TPA3255 chip run cool, are budget friendly, and sound very good indeed. Grzegorz Rulka's thorough demo of the FOSI ZA3.

Amps built using using valves (vacuum tubes) are expensive, run hot, don't have the silent noise floor or superb technical specs of chip amps, but if well made can deliver a holographic musical experience full of emotion (I own both valve and chip amps). Grzegorz demos different 2A3 vacuum tubes.

Music albums that caught the royal ear:

On a PC, listen to these in the Brave browser for disruption-free playback.

Mozart's Requiem K626
Peter Schreier's 1983 version is perfectly paced and emotionally powerful.
Lark's Tongues in Aspic
King Crimson blew my teenage mind, virtuoso prog rock with a primal edge.
Mezzanine
Massive Attack's dark, brooding, trip-hop masterpiece.
Handel's Messiah
Hogwood, 1980, Academy of Ancient Music.