I have been fond of audio for more than forty years. In 1968, my father purchased a magnificent Grundig compact unit with tube radio and record player, a three watts tube amplification and a beautiful cabinet in lucid teak. I have been still keeping it jealously at my mother’s house.
The very first audio experience I had was cannibalizing the loudspeakers of the old TV sets and introducing them into the polystyrene packaging of the iced cakes, trying to improve the stereophony of the Grundig.
My first collaboration with Suono (an Italian hi-fi magazine) dates back to 1992 with Bebo Moroni as chief editor and Mario Berlinguer, whom I have happy memories of, as vice chief editor. Then I wrote for Fedeltà del Suono (another Italian hi-fi magazine). Currently I have launched and I have been editing ReMusic, together with my dear friend Giuseppe Castelli. Without his precious contribute, ReMusic would not exist at all.
I must admit it. I am having a lot of fun. With ReMusic, I can freely do what I could not do in twenty years of so-called journalism: reviews that are first of all information, interesting editorials on audio systems and music, articles about technical-scientific in-depths.
Very little has been made so far, a lot has to be done.
Here, however, I want to describe my home system, actually my two reference systems.
First of all, I do not want to propose these reference systems as the best systems ever. They just interpret my sound, my way to see the playback music. Anyway, from the reference point of view, they are two systems of medium calibre, where the main feature is the tonal balance. Through the “medium calibre” I can immediately evaluate what is “a bit better” and what is “a bit worse”
As usually happens if you have well in mind the sonic results you intend to reach and I wish this results to all the audiophiles, I conclude that it is necessary to make some pieces of the audio chain by ourselves.
Analogue source
JA Michell Gyro Dec turntable
SME IV tonearm
Transfiguration Spirit low-output cartridge
Fidelity Research FRG-3G step-up
AM Audio MM and MC phono preamp with separate power supply
Digital sources
Stat Audio The One with Philips CDM Pro2 transport and four Wolfson WM8740 converters preceded by a 192 KHz asynchronous sample rate converter directly connected to the transport with I2S protocol and separate power supply
Teac VRDS 25-X with AM Audio conversion
Onkyo DX 7355 modified by me
Preamplifiers
Stat Audio dual mono
Plinius 12
Audiosophia pre RR
Integrated amplifiers
Audio Innovation series 500
Stat Audio
Loudspeakers
Stat Audio Immagine
Audiosophia RR
AM Audio Rossini Improved
Arte Acustica Classic Line Stand 93
Klipsch Heresy I USA 1979 serial N° 92T278 and USA 1980 serial N° 93U301 with Audiosophia conversion
Cables
Omega Audio Concepts
White Gold
Various DIY
