A design icon with an utopian sound system.

Among the mid-fi vintage tuners, Quad’s legendary FM4 stands out.

McIntosh MR 78 must be the most pleasant sounding FM Tuner I’ve ever heard.

Not all old speakers are vintage speakers.

An American amplifier.

Gear from B&O’s past are much sought after.

A lovable B&O system from 40 years ago.

The RH 545 Studio was Philips’ most advanced MFB loudspeakers monitoring its own playback through a feedback loop.

UNITON EV-ST71 is a rare 50W power amp with a particularly interesting background.

The German electronica giant SABA produced in its hay day not only radios but quality loudspeakers as well. The Professional 1300 was one of them.

The Quad 22 preamp’s underrated phono stage beats many much more expensive and fancier realizations.

In German turntables there are Midsummer Dreams (Mendehlssohn) and flamboyant symphonies (Brahms). What happens when an elegant puny contester takes the measure of a bombastic tank (Bruckner)?

The history of Finnish loudspeaker manufacturing cannot be written without the Gradient 1-series.

Binocular listening has corrupted stereo sound for 80 years. There are other options. Salora 3000 OP.

A new home for a rare vintage driver.

In their hayday Elipson loudspeakers were witnessing at close range the emergence of new Western art music.

Mercuriale FC413 is an interesting looking French loudspeaker from the 1970s. A pair of FC413 was refurbished in order to hear how this vintage beauty sounds.

If indeed “mighty” is an adjective that could be attributed to a loudspeaker, here’s one that definitely deserves it.

SFB/3s was Gilbert Briggs’ take on Peter Walker’s Quad ESL57. Today ESL57 is by far more famous, but SFB/3s has survived as a model for numerous open-back designs.

Marantz CD-10 is a classic CD-player, and a good sounding one in its own right. The sound can be bettered by installing a better clock oscillator for the DAC.

Recordings can never reproduce live events/sounds fully; they always eat something from the realism and liveliness. It is in this area that the EMT 927 and EMT turntables in general excel most.

An ultimate mono speaker?

Here’s a combo of pre/power amp that Finns can be proud of: The 2 Channel Audio Pre- and Power Amplifier designed by Matti Otala.

Crimson Model 610 preamp & Model 620 power amp were originally designed as ‘quality budget amps’. They possess sympathy that many modern amplifiers lack.

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