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A Dutch hi-fi website recently posted the results of a survey find the best sounding music albums. I was surprised to find two albums I own in the top 30: Trentemøller – The last resort and Elbow – The seldom seen kid. I agree that these albums sound really terrific. Last year I already wrote [...]

This week-end, I bought The Seldom Seen Kid, the latest album by Elbow. The album is already some time out, but I only started paying attention to it recently when hearing the song Weather To Fly on the radio. I had already heard The Bones Of You and One Day Like this before too. The [...]

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Since Friday I have my new hifi system. The new components are: Marantz PM8003 amplifier Marantz ST7001 DAB tuner Focal Chorus 816v speakers For audio CDs I still use my old Panasonic DVD-RV32. Although this is probably not of the same class as the other components, I don’t hear anything wrong with it, so I [...]

For the third year now, the radio station Studio Brussel is organizing an action to collect money for the Red Cross, this year for homeless mothers and children fleeing war. 3 DJs of the station, make live radio 24/24h for one week from a studio (called “Glass House”) which this year is in my home [...]

A bit of various things I quickly want to write something about: Mandriva (1) Mandriva decided to end the contracts of at least Adam Williamson, Mandriva’s community manager and Oden Eriksson, maintainer of the Apache, MySQL, PHP stack and other related packages. I’m disappointed to see that all the trouble Mandriva has gone through during [...]

About two weeks ago, I bought 15 music albums from an action by a Belgian newspaper. Those are 15 albums which take up an important place in the modern pop and rock history: Oasis – (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? The Police – Regatta de Blanc dEUS – In A Bar, Under The Sea Radiohead [...]