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!

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

Marco.