About
First, thank you for reading my music reviews. I enjoy sharing my thoughts on all sorts of music and like to learn about new music and artists. I also support independent musicians, artists and filmmakers. I’ve been a listener and music appreciator for many years and figured it was time to write about an art form that is so important to me. Unless noted otherwise, music reviewed is unsolicited and uncompensated. Recordings have been purchased by me through legal channels, to support artists (direct from record label, artist, retail or online shop), and if a review is solicited, and involves auditioning an advance or promotional copy of a recording, this will be noted.
Please note: I prefer to review actual CDs or LPs rather than digital-download files (for the best sound quality possible, and out of respect to the musicians and their work). Please do NOT send unsolicited digital music files. If you would like to send a review or promotional copy of your music, please contact me at: wajobu [at] hotmail [dot] com with more information on your release and I will let you know if I’m interested and able to prepare a review to meet your schedule. You can also contact me at my Facebook, Soundcloud, Tumblr pages or follow me on Twitter:
This is an archive of my music reviews at various locations around the internets and related topics. I have published reviews at HiFi Zine and Affordable Audio.
Equipment used for reviews includes:
Primary Equipment: Manley Mahi-Mahi Mono Amplifiers, Manley Jumbo Shrimp Preamplifier, Bel Canto CD2 with onboard DAC, Transcriptors Hydraulic Reference (Droog) TT w/ Grado Gold, Bottlehead Seduction Phono Preamp w/ C4S Upgrade (wajobu-built), Yamaha CT-7000 FM Tuner (restored), and ADS L-910 Studio Monitors
Alternate Equipment: Garrard 401 w/ custom aluminum block plinth (wajobu design) with Thomas Schick Arm w/ Benz Ace S Cartridge, Rega Apollo CD Player, Yamaha T-1 AM & FM Tuner, Yamaha A-1 Integrated Amplifier (restored), Yamaha NS-1000 Monitors, Bryston 3BST Amplifier, McIntosh MC2505 Amplifier and MX113 Tuner-Preamp (restored), Sony XDRF1HD Tuner, K&K TVC Stevens Billington Transformer Linestage Preamp, and Blumenhofer FJ Om Speakers
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The masthead photo was taken on the Connecticut River, in New England in October of 2011.
