Analog Adventures within the time of The Absolute Sound

Roberto Marzi: How did your your ardour for music playback start?

Stefano B: “One autumn day, it was the ’60s, I used to be in main faculty and with my dad and mom we went to the shop of the large firm the place my father labored. My dad and mom bought a mono system from Lesa with built-in turntable 33 RPM, 45 RPM, 78 RPM and flap needle. it will be my first turntable for years. One day my mom stated one thing that acquired into my blood – “…Remember Stefano, higher one steak much less and yet one more report…”

“But, a significant imprint of sound got here from the radio that I listened to all day. I exactly keep in mind my astonishment of listening to a track that solely years later i noticed was “Sabre Dance" by Aram Khachaturian. And me working across the eating desk within the kitchen just like the observe biking champions so well-known in Europe on the time. A number of years later —it was the tip of the ‘60s— I take advantage of to learn an italian music journal, Ciao 2001, and listened to a broadcast on the radio of “Per Voi Giovani.” In the journal I noticed an commercial for a brand new journal referred to as Stereoplay. I had a foul flu that pressured me into bedrest for 2 weeks, so I requested my mom if she might get it for me. When I had the journal my world out of the blue modified. I turned passionate a couple of new language that few spoke, and at all times with the devoted Lesa I listened to every part… And I started to dream of the JBL Jubals audio system {that a} "wealthy" buddy of mine had."

Roberto Marzi: Nice glimpse of life, I really feel I can see that little boy… discuss to me about whenever you recorded your grandmother’s voice.

Stefano B: “This is one thing that’s extra part of my actual life than my audio odyssey. I used to be born in Padua however, as a really younger youngster, I used to be pressured with my mom to observe my father to a smaller city, Bassano del Grappa. My mom left her job and I misplaced all my little mates. But, my mom was robust and gained briefly over my father’s will… on Fridays, we went again to my grandmother’s home the place i used to be born and on Sundays we went again to Bassano, with me prepared for varsity. This existence dividing my time between two very totally different cities has been a continuing all through my complete life. My mom’s brother, additionally divided between Padua and Switzerland, someday introduced a small Geloso recorder, with small keys and a desk microphone, with a magic inexperienced eye that pulsed at sounds whereas it was recording."

Photo proper: Stefano B.’s closely modified classic Garrard 301, or ‘Garrardzilla.’