Ben Branch
December 12, 2024
This is the Pro-Ject E1 Phono, it’s a turntable that’s made in Europe, and it’s widely considered one of the best affordable, entry-level turntables in the world – if not the best outright in…
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Ben Branch
December 3, 2024
The Audio-Technica Sound Burger was first released in 1983 and it quickly became an industrial design icon, influencing many other music players of the time. It was battery operated and came with headphones, allowing…
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Ben Branch
November 14, 2024
This is a 1939 Gibson L-5 archtop guitar that belonged to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a highly-influential musician who is often called the “Godmother of rock and roll.” Tharpe played this Gibson L-5 extensively in…
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Ben Branch
November 2, 2024
This is George Harrison’s Resonet Futurama, it was his most-played guitar in the early days of the Beatles seeing extensive stage and studio use from 1959 to 1961 including at the legendary Cavern Club…
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Ben Branch
July 24, 2024
This is Eddie Van Halen’s “Canadian Flag” guitar, it’s a 1993 Ernie Ball Music Man electric guitar that was used by Van Halen in a famous Canada Day concert in on July 1st, 1993….
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Ben Branch
June 27, 2024
This is the Mag-Lev Audio ML1, it’s a turntable with a levitating platter courtesy of a unique electromagnet system. Once the platter is levitating, there is no contact between it and any other surface,…
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Ben Branch
June 23, 2024
This is the Heritage Series Tweed model from the team at The HiFi Case, a Chicago-based specialist company that has been turning vintage suitcases into Bluetooth boomboxes since 2013. Each case has its own…
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Ben Branch
May 28, 2024
This 1977 Martin HD-28 acoustic guitar was given to Freddie Mercury by his manager and lover Paul Prenter. Mercury played the guitar at home, and today it still shows some light signs of wear…
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Ben Branch
April 25, 2024
This is the 1953 Bristol double-decker bus that was used by Paul McCartney and Wings as their 1972 “Wings Over Europe” tour bus. This tour saw the band perform 25 shows, in 25 cities…
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Ben Branch
April 22, 2024
The Gibson ES-335 was undeniably one of the most important new guitar designs released in the 1950s. It was the world’s first “semi-hollow body” electric guitar offering the best of both worlds, and curing…
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Ben Branch
April 21, 2024
This is the Fender Audio™ Indio 2 Bluetooth speaker, it’s designed to look and sound like those classic Fender guitar amplifiers from the 1960s and 1970s, while packing all state-of-the-art internals with Bluetooth 5.0,…
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Ben Branch
February 6, 2024
This is the Technics Ottava™, it’s an all-in-one music system that can play CDs and radio, and from Bluetooth, auxiliary, USB, Apple AirPlay, Chromecast, and from an analog input directly from your turntable. Technics…
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