Janis Ian’s Breaking Silence was released in 1992. It contains very personal songs, the title is to be taken literally. Janis had gone through a few years of illness and financial fraud and after her coming-out about it she recorded this record. At that moment she thought she was going to get only one chanceread more >
Eelco Grimm has always had a fascination for how the human brain works, both from a psychological and a philosophical point of view. A scientific paper that showed how music reduces cognitive dissonance inspired him to write a deep essay on human consciousness. The writing took a few years and it’s become a text full of mental vistas. A long read to cherish.read more >
Yesterday we proudly presented our new “SB2” subwoofer on the social media. Many people checked the date and weren’t fooled. But the question remained: what on earth is this sub? Our R&D engineer Floris Schropp found this Intersonic Servodrive SDL-5 subwoofer on a marketplace. It is a unique subwoofer design from the early 80’s byread more >
Our distributor Terrason has a room at the big iEar show 18/19 November in the Willem 2 football stadium in Tilburg. The MU2 will take center stage in their demo, together with Vivid Giya G1s loudspeakers and Halcro amplifiers. In various other rooms MU1’s can be found, and there will be another MU2 playing at theread more >
Today the third Unifony album has been released. It was recorded and mixed by Jan Theodoor Borger in Studio Klankzicht on his Grimm Audio system. The master is made by Bob Ludwig – one of the last albums this legend of mastering made before retiring this year. And he was very impressed by the album,read more >
This needs an introduction, hold on. There are many reviewers of audio equipment in magazines on the Internet as well as on paper. But very few of them transcend the all too common audio speak of distortion, coloration, truly amazing, impressive, betters the competition, etcetera. At Stereophile, a magazine I wrote for from 1988 toread more >
The year 2020 is coming to an end and with it the anniversary year of Channel Classics. This blog is therefore the last in my “Favorites” series. If favorite means that you listen to it often, then one album should certainly not be missing from my list: Philip Glass, Metamorphosis & The Hours by harpistread more >
Sunday November 29th Channel Classics celebrated its official 30th anniversary with a great concert by a selection of their star artists in the Frits Philips hall in Eindhoven. It came as a wonderful surprise that the long-planned concert could take place at all. The Covid-19 disaster had a firm grip on this festive event, butread more >
