“Only give life to an object which never existed before.” Kostas Metaxas designs luxury collections of high end HiFi. Every item in the collection is HiFi Art – totally and utterly different, organic and imaginative. “Otherwise they have no reason to exist”. He made a decision to create a “visual language”, to go out on his own and design uniqueness in an industry that had failed to evolve.
The Metaxas & Sins range also includes the world’s only newly designed, high end, open reel tape machine. An improvement on anything that has ever gone before both musically and visually.
EP 033 Metaxas & Sins episodes, transcripts, history & pics.
WORDS OF WISDOM FROM THIS EPISODE
“I use a lot of my own recordings (as test tracks). What I’ve always found is that if I want to judge how my equipment sounds I use my own recordings. If I want to judge how it will sound in normal people’s homes I use commercial recordings”
“The tape recorder business is not about making money. It is developed for the love of it. To be an Aussie, to come from nowhere and make something that crazy and get that accolade (Absolute Sound Review), that’s your payment”
“When you look at the rest of the luxury businesses the one that hasn’t evolved is high end audio. Cars, watches, fashion – there’s thousands of companies, but in high end audio it was basically virgin territory. No one had bothered to do museum quality, high end objects of art in audio“
People mentioned on this episode –
Kostas Metaxas
Andrew Hutchison
Klaus Renner (Das Ohr Magazine)
Peter Stein (ME Audio Australia)
Jean-Claude Schlup
jean-Pierre Gurtner
Andree Putman
Businesses mentioned on this episode –
Metaxas & Sins
Len Wallis Audio
HiFi and Stereo
Dellichord
HeyNow HiFi
March Audio
Stereonet HiFi and AV Show
Mark Levinson
VAF Research
Stellavox
DAS Ohr HiFi Magazine
Absolute Sound Magazine
C.E.S. HiFi Show Las Vegas
Nagra Audio Equipment
Recording the Masters (RTM)
ATR Magnetics
Models mentioned on this episode –
PS Audio Signature PMG series
Quad ESL57 Loudspeakers
Stellavox
Mark Levinson
McIntosh
Accuphase
Pioneer
Goldmund Turntables
Martin Logan
Perreaux
ME Audio Australia
Revox
Hermes
Christofle
Louis Vuitton
Boucheron
Pierre Cardin
Dan D’Agostino
Best test tracks mentioned on this episode –
Currently enjoying – Tori Amos Native Invader
Audiophile stuff Can’t stand – Diana Krall
Audiophile stuff She’s okay- Patricia Barbra
Best Recordings to judge a system – Joni Mitchell or Pat Matheny
Joni Mitchell live recording – Miles of Aisles
Music courtesy of –
Please Listen Carefully by Jahzzar http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar
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CREDITS –
Host, audio production – Andrew Hutchison
Guest Host – News & Reviews – David Corazza
Guest Host – Brad Serhan