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Krakow Sonic Society № 144

THREE BLIND MICE,
or Japanese record labels
(yesterday and today)

The Japanese scene of record labels is extremely rich. Its most important actors appeared on it in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and among them the most important label turned out to be THREE BLIND MICE, which has a iconic status among audiophiles. We took a look at both it and other labels from that period, as well as some contemporary ones.

January 20th 2024
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No. 115 December 2013

No. 115 December 2013

KRAKOW SONIC SOCIETY: Meeting No. 90: Acrolink 7N-PC9500

ften asked if we have good time during our KSS meetings, I answer that we have absolutely splendid time. We meet with people we like, we are interested in each other and in new records as well as old album reissues, we like wine which we strive to consume regularly. The music we listen to is played on top notch audio equipment. It would be very ungrateful to claim otherwise and equally unfair to say that I have some kind of issues with the KSS. The other thing is that each one of us uses the opportunity and makes their own deals – deals associated with music and audio gear, of course. A significant proportion of our joint auditions are devoted to things that aspire to be integrated into our own audio systems, to the records that have the ambition to replace the old editions in our collections. Pure self-interest. But because the comparisons and auditions are conducted by the book and it is important ...

No. 111 August 2013

No. 111 August 2013

KRAKOW SONIC SOCIETY: Meeting #88 - Ken Ishiguro (ACOUSTIC REVIVE, Japan) in Krakow

Published: 7. August 2013, No. 111 The meetings of the Krakow Sonic Society usually have the goal of identifying a problem, diagnosing it, comparing old and new products, records, and technologies. We approach it with an open mind, although everybody has their private expectations and agendas. The goal is the same for all, however: to explain something, to reach a conclusion. Of course, everything is very temporary and make-shift, since audio is a field in which there are no “sure” things, rather “highly probable” at most. That’s why every meeting of a group of people accustomed to a certain auditioning practice, whose have viewpoints on sound and hardware, is a unique meeting of MINE with ANOTHER, an attempt at using this as a base for forming a new viewpoint. An important aspect of this is that it all happens before our eyes, and a meeting aims to ...

No. 107 April 2013

No. 107 April 2013

KRAKOW SONIC SOCIETY: meeting No. 87
Sonus faber GUARNERI EVOLUTION (versus Sonus faber GUARNERI HOMAGE) Integrated amplifier

Published: 3. April 2013, No. 108 Standmount speakers are a kind of an aberration. One can go even further and say that they are a denial of the very idea of a speaker – speakers of that type are just asking for such a comment. The whole point about audio playback is to convey as much as possible information recorded on analog or digital tape, or in computer memory. That, in addition to such characteristics as dynamics, color, differentiation, resolution, selectivity and consistency, also means the widest possible frequency response. The latter is inextricably linked to a large speaker cabinet and sizeable woofers. In other words, exactly the two components that are eliminated in the standmount speakers at the outset. A question might be asked, what about a kind of standmount monsters, such as the Harbeth M40.1, the SP100R2 from Spendor, the BB5 from PMC, or the SCM150 from ATC. After all, ...

No. 105 February 2013

No. 105 February 2013

COVERAGE: Kracow Sonic Society meeting no. 86:
Siltech DOUBLE CROWN (set) from Holland

Published: 1. February 2013, No. 105 Our audition that took place in mid-December 2012 brought us one step closer to the 100th anniversary of the first meeting in this formula. We still have about two years to go (14 meetings) but on the other hand eight years are already behind us. It might therefore seem that we got bored, that we know everything about ourselves and audio equipment. That we have already heard and seen everything. KSS RULEZ and all. Any thinking and refined person would not find it difficult, however, to respond to such statements with a shrug. Every peak, every top, every “wall” we face eventually gives way to something even stronger, bigger, better. Yet these stops are necessary. Being an ‘audiophile’ is for me one of the synonyms of being ‘human’, one of the emanations of the human need for something higher, in this case ...

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