Hello from Italy!!!

[stel1963]

Hello to everybody in "The Art of Sound Forum"
I write you from Italy (very sunny today, almost summer!) and i'm Fabrizio Gavosto. I love hifi and tubes since i was 15 years old.... and that was 45 years ago. And i love turntables (yes... we old people are like that!) and phono stages.
I have many of them, about 35 Thorens (124-135-160-150-125-126) since i like to restore them and bring them back to life. Buth then... i like them too much to sell them. But my main equipement is Garrard 301, Transrotor Leonardo and Lenco PTP. I build my own arms, and restore "impossible" tonearms, like the Stax and ad Grace unipivot tonearms
Then... i love to build tube phono stages. And help others to do so.
And... logically tubes for amplifying... Audio Innovations (im still in love with my Audio Innovations 500, a 35 years love affair. With my wife its just a 30 years old love affair... ) but i use often Ayon Crossfire, Croft (Glen is fantastic, and a great person) Sun audio, TP audio, and some self built and locally produced amps
That is because i have only speakers over 105 db/w La SCala, Huge JBL full horn, Altec. In the past i was consultant for hifi dealers for Apogee and Magneplar installations, and had them all, including the Scintilla.... so probably now i got a kind of reaction to moving around huge heawwy weight Krell and Mark Levinsons, and went to small light tube amps of max 5-6W easy to move... just to realize i got into huge and heavvy 90-150 kg full scale horns... which are even worst to move than huge Krells.... well, that is life.
What elese? Ah yes.... probably you notefd it.... I never have time (for my job) but i'm quite logorroic!
So anyway, greetings to all and thanks for admitting me!
Yours
Fabrizio

[Ali Tait]

Hi and welcome. Some fantastic kit you have there. Lots here love vinyl and valves, including me!

[struth]

Welcome to the forum Fabrizio. Sure you will fit in well as lots of Tube and tt folk here..

[stel1963]

Thank you Struth, and thank you Don. I will have to learn a little how it works (each forum uses a quite different interface). Actually i'm browsing trough sections to see threads and contents. I saw a quite interesting documentation archive too holded by Marco. I will explore tonight! Nice to be here!
Fabrizio

[Barry]

Welcome to AoS Fabrizio.

Don't worry about the perceived 'logorrhoea', your enthusiasm for the subject is obvious and welcome. :)

What are your tastes in music?

Enjoy the Forum
Barry

[stel1963]

Welcome to AoS Fabrizio.

Don't worry about the perceived 'logorrhoea', your enthusiasm for the subject is obvious and welcome. :)

What are your tastes in music?

Enjoy the Forum
Barry

Hello Barry, Thanks! Well... i'm almost omnivorous. Music is turned on 18hrs a dy, when i work (loud when the staff is not with me) or soft. At night, etc. Lately i switched a lot toward Jazz, mainly bebop but also contemporary, contemporary piano music, classical with quartets and trios. Both my grandfather and grandmother where musicians, both classical piano palyers, so i inherithed a Garrard 301 and a huge collection of classical and synphonic. But i'm also a lot into blues and electronics. Not much into italian music, although down here we have some great voices, like Mina. I had a long period of love with folk music too, but now i prefer definitely a Bill Evans or Oscar Peterson trio or Keith Jarret (i will never get tired of him and his music) or even the relaxing athmosphere of Esbjorn Svensson and Tord Gustavsen. I use a lot the liquid media to explore, through spotify, and often when i find something really nice, i go on Amazon or to the few vinyl shops left and buy the black round thing. Its just something else, spinning concentration... it wears out (not much, i have some vinyls with thousands of spins on, but there i use shibata diamonds mounted on Goldring or Denon 103 and it seems almost a new vinyl!) so you have to "stay there" and "hear it". Liquid just goes by.... its different.

[Barry]

Hello Barry, Thanks! Well... i'm almost omnivorous. Music is turned on 18hrs a dy, when i work (loud when the staff is not with me) or soft. At night, etc. Lately i switched a lot toward Jazz, mainly bebop but also contemporary, contemporary piano music, classical with quartets and trios. Both my grandfather and grandmother where musicians, both classical piano palyers, so i inherithed a Garrard 301 and a huge collection of classical and synphonic. But i'm also a lot into blues and electronics. Not much into italian music, although down here we have some great voices, like Mina. I had a long period of love with folk music too, but now i prefer definitely a Bill Evans or Oscar Peterson trio or Keith Jarret (i will never get tired of him and his music) or even the relaxing athmosphere of Esbjorn Svensson and Tord Gustavsen. I use a lot the liquid media to explore, through spotify, and often when i find something really nice, i go on Amazon or to the few vinyl shops left and buy the black round thing. Its just something else, spinning concentration... it wears out (not much, i have some vinyls with thousands of spins on, but there i use shibata diamonds mounted on Goldring or Denon 103 and it seems almost a new vinyl!) so you have to "stay there" and "hear it". Liquid just goes by.... its different.

In that respect we have very, very similar (almost identical) tastes in music! :)

[Marco]

Ciao Fabrizio,

Sono un po' in ritardo per questa festa!:D

Benvenuto a AoS. Spero che tutto è bene, è che divertirsi bene qui :)

Marco.