Added 8 more Hong Kong and Taiwan high-fidelity magazines, along with a Swedish and French-Canadian magazine, to the Audiophile’s Guide to the Galaxy’s page on foreign-language high-end audio magazines and blogs.

That ups the total to 42 international magazines / blogs so far.

Google is really poor at helping me find these sites in Asia. I expect them to trickle in for awhile.

It is really fun to see a page I have no idea what it says but to easily recognize most of the gear on the page – and the photos, like the one of Ed Meitner that is circulating through Asia this month.

As always, the Google Chrome browser will offer to translate each page for you, or you can find another method, if you want to actually try and read some of these websites. Sometimes translations work well, sometimes not as well 🙂

Added Artesania and SolidTech high-end audio racks to the Audiophile’s Guide to the Galaxy page on high fidelity high-end audio equipment racks

When I first started this with the idea of including a photo or two from all readily available racks, I thought there wouldn’t be that many. Especially after I saw that several had gone out of business, like Zoethecus, et. al.

But nooooooo.

We’re up to 56 photos. I *think* we are getting close to having just about all of them.

These two newest additions, SolidTech and  Artesania, are both imported and available in the U.S.

The SolidTech ‘Hybrid’ photo is above and the Artesania ‘Exoteryc’ rack is pictured here below.

I think most of us think about this sometimes. How do you make so your can display favorite records on your wall in your listening room?

The experience is so evocative. Just like browsing the better record stores. Just to be able to look at album covers and remember all the hours we enjoyed the music it represents.  Remember the times of our lives when we first heard the record. Remembering that we actually own this LP that we prize so highly but sometimes forget we even own [or is that just me?].

RecordWall-it does this.

“Proudly made in the USA, RecordWall-it allows record fans to display and change their favorite albums on the wall without the trouble of taking the entire frame apart. With its innovative detachable record post, our record frame supports displaying a picture disc/record instead of just an album cover. Visit http://www.recordwall-it.com to see the many features of RecordWall-it”

RecordWall-it is looking for more dealers., but it is not quite right for our store. Our listening rooms have more windows than wall space, so we couldn’t demo it, but it does look like a cool thing that one would love to be able to use when and if one gets more wall space… 🙂