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There are more ways to listen to music than ever these days, and cheap Bluetooth speakers are everywhere: hanging in your shower, sitting on your kitchen counter, and on tailgates at football games. Unfortunately, these kinds of speakers often cultivate an experience where the music takes a backseat to whatever else you’re doing.
In today’s conversation, Heaven 11 Audio’s Itai Azerad offers a different perspective, one that puts a premium on really listening to music and feeling an emotional connection to it — and his company Heaven 11 Audio produces amplifiers to do exactly that. Their Billie amp blends old-school vacuum tubes with cutting-edge class D amplifier technology to capture the heart and soul of music, and with a stunning industrial design, it invites you to just listen to the music, and nothing else. Itai also talks about his inspiration to start an audio company, his unconventional path in industrial design, vacuum tubes, circuit boards, wooden knobs, and a whole lot more.
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TOPICS & TIMES:
Bauhaus (2:45)
Itai’s Audio Journey (5:22)
Music is a Ritual & the Stereo is the Shrine (8:38)
Starting a HiFi Company (10:22)
The Billie Amp (12:34)
Why use Vacuum Tubes (14:04)
Why use a Class D Amplifier (16:55)
Chasing Perfect (31:38)
Beautiful Design is as Important as Sound (38:12)
The New MK3 Billie Amp (40:47)
Music Matters (43:00)
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Mmmm… Tube amps. Here is a picture of my ’65 Vibro Champ: [o]
Going to give this a listen today.