Sweden

1970

When I was a little kid my middle brother spent a fortune on a wonderful HIFI system. Recently, I found his son using the amplifier as a workout-gear (it is heavy). This was odd and certainly a waste so I offered my brother to buy the lot. Together with the amp came two AR15 (Acoustic Research). These where ragged and worn and my efforts at fixing them never quite turned out. During the work I became more and more obsessed with the idea of restoring the sound as it once used to be when my brother blasted away the neighborhood with his Pink Floyd records. I started to look for a replacement pair of AR15´s on the web. It soon turned out to be impossible to get hold of the particular model. Instead I went through the AR4, 11 and finally 10pi until I was satisfied.

The sound is awesome, as it once used to be. The utopia I guess was to possess a timeless space - an aural bridge to twenty years ago; however I don’t - but striving for strange things like that is the essence.