All posts tagged: Rosewood

Braun Receivers

Dieter Rams

Dieter Rams Design is mostly related to BRAUN. The production of this german Brand was technically advanced in materials, electronic design, and superlative sonical performance. Overall quality was extremely high in every category of products and many Patents still belong to Braun. The Regie units in the picture are Receivers; the digital 550 D is a pure metal case, engineered as sturdy as possible. The Loudspeakers are unique in design , quality of the drivers with dome midrange & tweeter in Silk , passive cross over; die cast aluminium case…the so call Taunus Sound; expression widely used for Heco, Canton and Grundig. In the Photogallery the Dieter Rams Bookshelf used to host a superlative designed Bang & Olufsen series 5000 with pure Crystal fronts, is the famous aluminium bookshelf produced under license from different Design Brand in the furniture industry. A B&O receiver 2400 with Rosewood sidepanels is also recognizable. Mine is sourced from De Padova (Milan) . Materials:Aluminium, Rosewood, Crystal, Silk treated Dome

Micro Seiky DD40 Direct Drive turntable and MA 505

The Micro Seiky direct drive DD 40 turntable was fitted with an arm based on the model MA 505, a S shaped high precision, low tolerances, tonearm totally hand made in Japan. The unique design of the arm made it possible to adjust the tracking weight and the antiskating whilst on playing. A tungsten wire connected to a spring is working as tensioner, moreover a simple and stable mechanism is controlling the VTA. The motor is held in a aluminium die cast structure encasted in a amazing Rosewood frame.