Röhren und Hören

[...] There are sealed and stuffed boxes, vented or farting designs and transmission lines. There are soft and hard-dome tweeters, watch we’re under construction. One-ways, two-ways, more-ways and freeways. Dynamics, planars, electrostatics, and horns. How about genuine novelties such as the Gallo or Linaeum tweeter, the German Physik bending-wave driver, the MBL Radialstrahler? Flat panels? Space-age materials, compound curves, constrained-layer damping, lead sheathing. To spike or to float. To fill with sand, lead or cat litter.

[...]Cables? Yikes. Stranded, twisted, helixed, solid core, air core. Ribbon, hollow oval, braided or knotted. Copper, silver, aluminum, gold, bronze, uranium. From zero to multi-crystal in 5.6 seconds. Break-in. Breakdown. Break-up. Double blind listening, as if simply blind wasn’t good enough. [...]