The experiments behind the philosophy.
The archive contains far more than product opinions. These essays turn repeated patterns from years of notes into a coherent body of ideas.
Nine routes into the archive.
Holography, dipoles and the room
Why depth is not width, and why open radiation can make placement part of the instrument.
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Raw vs refined audio
Why polish can help or sterilise, and why useful rawness often feels like presence.
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Paper, ribbon and capacitor voicing
Preserving the SABA voice while exploring more air, and when a ribbon becomes a new design.
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Building P17
From a c.2010 idea to the final crossover installation in March 2025.
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The human part of digital
DAC architecture, output stages and the lesson of the TDA1549 MikroLampizator.
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Different architectures, one harmonic voice
How components with different characters can still belong to the same system philosophy.
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The Living Library
A music collection should reflect what still lives in you, not what you once acquired.
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Mastering before format
Vinyl, tape, CD and capture without format tribalism.
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Op-amps, tubes and voicing
Fine adjustments to body, air, intimacy and geometry without losing the whole track.
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Why old digital?
Raw vs refined, multibit architectures and the analogue output stage.
DAC architectures →The journal now carries the progression behind the conclusions.
Each essay is tied back to the dated build notes and master research documents so that “why” remains visible: why a tube family mattered, why one crossover tier led to another, why raw and refined stopped being opposites, and why future designs are described as questions until they are built.