Monday Diversion: Steampunk Audio
The First Steampunk Book Amplifier! One thing I love about small boutique companies, is sometimes people have such a different vision, by something inside of themselves, that is far enough different from what is expected, or what any sane marketing person would tell you was right and proper. Enter to this a (now defunct) company, Moth Audio. Their product line is shown in all its glory on their website now aptly called the Moth Museum . They so completely capture what audiophile equipment might have looked like if the computer revolution was based around Charles Babbage's Difference Engine and not silicon chips. I am fascinated by it. It tickles my inner Sci-Fi Geek. I loved William Gibson's The Difference Engine - which described a gritty, hard boiled world of Charles Dickens meets Jules Verne - and it only took a small step for someone to have decided that they wanted to have a set of audio gear to embody their imagining of this world. ...