OLE - My first hi-fi was a Tandberg open-reel tape recorder, bought when I was 15 years old. The first audio system was made by building the AM radio schematic in a Philips Electronics learning kit and listening on a single earpiece to rock music. The sound faded in and out because the only commercial station in Luxembourg that played 24-hour rock music, that I wanted to listen to on my summer holidays, was 1.000 km away.

I tried to make this large radio kit smaller in size to move it around, but then it did not work. That was my first hard lesson in radiofrequency equipment, simply a change of distances between components can prevent an electronic circuit from working. Many years later at university I learned how the invisible capacitors and inductors in the air between components change value with the distance.

OLE - McIntosh C22 Preamp originally bought used. My GamuT M250 monoblock is my own design favourite. It is compact and it gives a very high and low distortion power into a 2 Ohm load.

OLE - EMI CDS 7 54368 2 - Georges Bizet “Carmen” with Maria Callas. Track 23 Act 2 “Halte la!” opens the second disc. You can hear the male singer walking across at the rear of the hall while singing, and later walking towards stage center front. The recording is a reference for three-dimensional sound. On a fine system, you can measure the size of the hall with your ears, and on the best systems you can hear that he walks deeper into the stage, while walking across from right to left. You can clearly hear the acoustics change while he is walking. The recording is from 1964, it has some analogue tape distortion at high levels, and Mrs Callas was always a bit shrill sounding, but who cares, when the drama unfolds like this. It is like "seeing" with your ears.

The later remastering EMI 7543 5 566281 2 1 should be avoided. The original 1964 LPs are worth finding, because analogue tape deteriorate with age and use. LPs are more stable.

OLE - The cabinet material and the shape. I saw this cabinet in 2016 at a conference and I told the casting company owner, Søren Dissing that this was brilliant. For one hundred years nobody had combined Grey Cast Iron and loudspeaker cabinets. Grey Cast Iron was well known for its superb vibration damping, stiffness and heavy weight. So it is better for a loudspeaker cabinet.

OLE - I enjoy planning better and spacious interiors in recording studios. These new larger control rooms allowed artists like Elton John and George Michael better working conditions, when recording. These recordings became their best selling albums. Read over at:-
http://christensen.audio/about-us/

I also like hearing good music, preferably enjoyed as a live performance in a room with good acoustics. Reading good books. Drinking good wine at a meal with friends.

OLE - How to please interior decorators and also make fine sound quality.

OLE - The JERN 35 Reference two-way stand-mount loudspeakers using the latest and best drivers from Scanspeak and Purifi.

OLE - Both are worse than live music. Do you prefer an apple or an orange?

OLE - I drove from Melbourne to Canberra on the A1 coastal road and then to Sydney. Here I visited the Fairlight factory, because I sold the Fairlight music computers in Scandinavia. I want to visit Australia again.

OLE - Both!