Essay · 7 min
On quiet rooms
Why we fit people in a small room, not a treated one.
Reading · four rooms
Writing from the atelier.
Long-form notes on listening, design, and craft. The Journal for ideas, Field Notes for the bench, Owners’ Letters for community, and Tuning Manuals for the curious.
The Journal
Essays on listening.
Essay · 4 min
The second song
How your second-favourite track tells us your sound.
Essay · 9 min
A short defence of bass
The case for a generous low end, with examples.
Field Notes
From the bench.
Field Note · 3 min
Why we braise our cables for nine minutes
The odd bit of process that turned out to matter.
Field Note · 2 min
A new lapping jig
How we shortened hand-finish time by 30%.
Field Note · 5 min
Voicing in three rooms
The same monitor sounds different in three rooms.
Owners' Letters
Notes from the community.
Letter · Lisbon
“They vanished.”
On returning to music after twenty years away.
Letter · Berlin
“My piano, again.”
A pianist rediscovers her instrument.
Letter · Kyoto
“Quiet Sundays.”
Listening as a Sunday practice.
Tuning Manuals
For the curious.
Manual · 12 min
Reading an audiogram
What an audiogram tells us, and what it doesn’t.
Manual · 8 min
Drivers explained
Balanced armature, dynamic, planar, in plain language.
Manual · 6 min
Cable burn-in
Why we still burn in cables before they ship.