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5 years ago, I wrote a chapter on our 10th anniversary, “120 Months of ‘Flavor of the Month.” The title was a play on a comment that popped up when we launched in June 2010, when we introduced …
2025, Chapter 3 More F’n Changes We’re moving really fast this year, so it’s time for a short omnibus chapter to catch everyone up. How fast? Gjallarhorn F(ast) Well, we almost just launch…
2025, Chapter 2 What’s New is Old Again Stjarna was the wrench in our works of phono preamp development. You see, until Stjarna, we were on a path. Mani 2 measured great and sounded good, really…
2025, Chapter 1 This Crazy Biz I stopped at Aerodrome Distilling this last Friday. Nathan, the proprietor, grinned and waved as I came in. It had been a while, so as I walked up to the aircraft wing…
2024, Chapter 14 Late in 2023, I emailed Martin something like this: “We just need to have it do one thing. Press one button on a phone and have it do one thing on a preamp. That’s it.” “It…
The first amp I ever worked on was the Sumo Andromeda 2. This was a giant bruiser of an amp, a 7” tall, 19” wide, 16” deep, 50 lb beast that did 200W into 8 ohms—stereo. It was one of the few…
2024, Chapter 12 DAC to the Future