BLOG #70. RMAF-2019: A Totally Blurred Vision
"... from the perspective of current High End Audio’s potential “new blood” representatives – the bystanders of the audiophile scene, which are the only ones that can save it from its coming collapse - the High End Audio Utopia is inevitably becoming a Dystopia.
And not because the former’s various fractions’ potential goals and purposes are not fully reachable, actually, they are.
It will become a Dystopia only for a single reason: because these goals are still not tightly focused, and, as such, are not seen at all".
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"... from the perspective of current High End Audio’s potential “new blood” representatives – the bystanders of the audiophile scene, which are the only ones that can save it from its coming collapse - the High End Audio Utopia is inevitably becoming a Dystopia.
And not because the former’s various fractions’ potential goals and purposes are not fully reachable, actually, they are.
It will become a Dystopia only for a single reason: because these goals are still not tightly focused, and, as such, are not seen at all".
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09.10.2019 // Author: (Bigmisha) // Number of views: 138
BLOG #69. headfonia.com Published a Review of StereoPravda SPearphone “SB-3.5”
To quote,
“… Listening to the SB IEMS is always an experience. The SPearphones are a one of a kind creation by a unique designer, that’s the least one can say…
… The StereoPravda SB-3.5 will never win a beauty contest or get an award for comfort but the SB-3.5 isn’t about that. Misha’s “no pain, no gain” philosophy is what it is but if you can handle that you can be sure to get a very nice and unique high-end sounding IEM with a sound signature you’ve never heard before. A fine example of a technical masterpiece. The truth and nothing but the truth”.
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To quote,
“… Listening to the SB IEMS is always an experience. The SPearphones are a one of a kind creation by a unique designer, that’s the least one can say…
… The StereoPravda SB-3.5 will never win a beauty contest or get an award for comfort but the SB-3.5 isn’t about that. Misha’s “no pain, no gain” philosophy is what it is but if you can handle that you can be sure to get a very nice and unique high-end sounding IEM with a sound signature you’ve never heard before. A fine example of a technical masterpiece. The truth and nothing but the truth”.
Read more…
03.09.2019 // Author: (Bigmisha) // Number of views: 514
BLOG #68. Would You Go for a “Mountain”, Or Are You Content with Just a “Molehill”?
"...a customer’s choice for a solution to truly advance the level of his/her audiophile capabilities will be efficient only when it is dictated by some very obvious, dramatic and significant sonic differences, and not by some relatively insignificant flavor-type fluctuations in, basically, an insipid homogeneity of a multitude of barely distinguishable products and all sorts of their even less distinguishable among themselves modifications". Read more…
"...a customer’s choice for a solution to truly advance the level of his/her audiophile capabilities will be efficient only when it is dictated by some very obvious, dramatic and significant sonic differences, and not by some relatively insignificant flavor-type fluctuations in, basically, an insipid homogeneity of a multitude of barely distinguishable products and all sorts of their even less distinguishable among themselves modifications". Read more…
14.08.2019 // Author: (Bigmisha) // Number of views: 355
BLOG #67. The Power of Right Relationships – Seeing My Former “Ex-s”
"My portable audio project is fully based on all the knowledge and experience I gained from 25 years of actively participating in all aspects of no-holds-barred home High End Audio. That knowledge, those advanced hearing skills, those insights and that experience constitutes the foundation of our StereoPravda activities, and they all pave the way for it in the future.
Figuratively speaking, our portable audio products are like proverbial bottles which contain the sound of my former audio systems that I can take anywhere with me (and which allow me to share the excitement over their sonics with anybody who would listen)".
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"My portable audio project is fully based on all the knowledge and experience I gained from 25 years of actively participating in all aspects of no-holds-barred home High End Audio. That knowledge, those advanced hearing skills, those insights and that experience constitutes the foundation of our StereoPravda activities, and they all pave the way for it in the future.
Figuratively speaking, our portable audio products are like proverbial bottles which contain the sound of my former audio systems that I can take anywhere with me (and which allow me to share the excitement over their sonics with anybody who would listen)".
Read more…
15.07.2019 // Author: (Bigmisha) // Number of views: 419
BLOG #66.6. I'll Be Bach!
"A few days ago, we had to “terminate” four our International distributors...
... I am not suggesting here a lack of resolution, willingness, competence or even resources on our former StereoPravda’s International distributors’ part. I’ve been in their shoes, and I know how frustrating you can feel when something that you personally strongly believe in is completely irrelevant to your customers.
At the same time, I don’t really see any signs of their eagerness to modify their deeply ingrained algorithms for their business models. Like, similar to what my former company had to do when we tried to adapt our well-proven pure home audio business models to the arrival of some new categories of related products at the onset of the Home Theater craze..."
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"A few days ago, we had to “terminate” four our International distributors...
... I am not suggesting here a lack of resolution, willingness, competence or even resources on our former StereoPravda’s International distributors’ part. I’ve been in their shoes, and I know how frustrating you can feel when something that you personally strongly believe in is completely irrelevant to your customers.
At the same time, I don’t really see any signs of their eagerness to modify their deeply ingrained algorithms for their business models. Like, similar to what my former company had to do when we tried to adapt our well-proven pure home audio business models to the arrival of some new categories of related products at the onset of the Home Theater craze..."
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15.06.2019 // Author: (Bigmisha) // Number of views: 286
BLOG #65. Our Shrink Blessing
"The big companies have no choice but to rely on some already proven technologies that completely correlate with the current scales of demand, therefore, the bigger a certain current demand is, the more limited the big companies are in their choice of applying some off-the-beaten-tracks and “outdated” technologies. At the same time, even the most up-to-date techniques and technologies (let’s say, 3D printing) still have their limitations, and in a lot of cases, the only way to overcome the limitations is still to apply a passionate and métier-type hand crafting...
... as StereoPravda would always rather spent all the available space and all the available budget on much nobler causes such as the sonic “optimality”, our “shrink” technology for making the cases for ear monitors allows us to provide the thinnest and cheapest earphone cases in the whole industry. And that’s exactly why we use it. At the same time, our cases are as strong and as durable as all the rest (if not even more so)".
(on the picture: Jerry Harvey auditioning StereoPravda SPearphone "SB-7") Read more…
"The big companies have no choice but to rely on some already proven technologies that completely correlate with the current scales of demand, therefore, the bigger a certain current demand is, the more limited the big companies are in their choice of applying some off-the-beaten-tracks and “outdated” technologies. At the same time, even the most up-to-date techniques and technologies (let’s say, 3D printing) still have their limitations, and in a lot of cases, the only way to overcome the limitations is still to apply a passionate and métier-type hand crafting...
... as StereoPravda would always rather spent all the available space and all the available budget on much nobler causes such as the sonic “optimality”, our “shrink” technology for making the cases for ear monitors allows us to provide the thinnest and cheapest earphone cases in the whole industry. And that’s exactly why we use it. At the same time, our cases are as strong and as durable as all the rest (if not even more so)".
(on the picture: Jerry Harvey auditioning StereoPravda SPearphone "SB-7") Read more…
27.05.2019 // Author: (Bigmisha) // Number of views: 247
BLOG #64. High End Munich-2019: Full Blown OCPD
"...I have always seen various demonstrations of perfectionism in High End Audio – without its main “task” clearly formulated and accepted as a guiding principle – as no more than just various demonstrations of OCPD symptoms.
... then, how healthy can be an industry relying on unhealthy state of its potential customers?
Actually, it can be very healthy.
However, only after it would openly declare its true mission: that is to help a certain type of unhealthy people".
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"...I have always seen various demonstrations of perfectionism in High End Audio – without its main “task” clearly formulated and accepted as a guiding principle – as no more than just various demonstrations of OCPD symptoms.
... then, how healthy can be an industry relying on unhealthy state of its potential customers?
Actually, it can be very healthy.
However, only after it would openly declare its true mission: that is to help a certain type of unhealthy people".
Read more…
22.05.2019 // Author: (Bigmisha) // Number of views: 122
BLOG #63. StereoPravda @High End Munich-2019 Show Announcement
This year our presence at the High End Munich show (May 9th -12th ) at the Etalon Sound booth (Hall 2 F11) will be featuring our new StereoPravda SPearphone SB-4 ear monitor ($2 000) (with the rest of our usual wares). Read more…
This year our presence at the High End Munich show (May 9th -12th ) at the Etalon Sound booth (Hall 2 F11) will be featuring our new StereoPravda SPearphone SB-4 ear monitor ($2 000) (with the rest of our usual wares). Read more…
07.05.2019 // Author: (Bigmisha) // Number of views: 230
BLOG #62. Stereopravda SPearphone SB-7 Have Been Recently Compared to Two “Top-Of-The-League” Custom In-The-Ear-Monitors
Stereopravda SPearphone SB-7 have been recently compared to two “Top-Of-The-League” Custom In-The-Ear-Monitors by two reputable websites. Read more…
Stereopravda SPearphone SB-7 have been recently compared to two “Top-Of-The-League” Custom In-The-Ear-Monitors by two reputable websites. Read more…
25.03.2019 // Author: (Bigmisha) // Number of views: 521
BLOG #61. The Russian Federation’s Intellectual Property Agency Issued Another Patent by Mikhail Kucherenko
On February 25th, 2019 The Russian Intellectual Property Agency issued another patent by Mikhail Kucherenko called “In-the-ear-canal Earphone”: Read more…
On February 25th, 2019 The Russian Intellectual Property Agency issued another patent by Mikhail Kucherenko called “In-the-ear-canal Earphone”: Read more…
20.03.2019 // Author: (Bigmisha) // Number of views: 289
BLOG #60. CanJam NYC-2019: The Customer Is Not Always Right
"... in the current corporate feuds, “The Customer Is Always Right” only when he or she is willing to shell out ridiculous amounts of money for some quickly outdated products, but the dictum immediately changes to “The Customer Is Not Always Right” as soon as he or she starts to raise (however humbly) a voice regarding some eternal values.
... the time has come when to be “always right” again in future, the customers should remind themselves about the roots of their enthusiasm for music and sound and to put up with a necessity to, at least, temporarily admit that sometimes they can be “not always right”". Read more…
"... in the current corporate feuds, “The Customer Is Always Right” only when he or she is willing to shell out ridiculous amounts of money for some quickly outdated products, but the dictum immediately changes to “The Customer Is Not Always Right” as soon as he or she starts to raise (however humbly) a voice regarding some eternal values.
... the time has come when to be “always right” again in future, the customers should remind themselves about the roots of their enthusiasm for music and sound and to put up with a necessity to, at least, temporarily admit that sometimes they can be “not always right”". Read more…
19.03.2019 // Author: (Bigmisha) // Number of views: 232
BLOG #59. 12 Audiophile Steps of Stairway to Heaven
"...below are the main ideas/steps, which are defined specifically for High End Audio.
Which are the ones that you should be fully aware of, and, according to my own personal experience, that awareness is the only way which would allow you to thread a correct road map through complete appreciation of a role of each of these steps to arrive at the best possible sonic achievements.
This road map, in my opinion, will allow everyone, who really wants it, to climb at “The Highest Peaks of Audio”".
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"...below are the main ideas/steps, which are defined specifically for High End Audio.
Which are the ones that you should be fully aware of, and, according to my own personal experience, that awareness is the only way which would allow you to thread a correct road map through complete appreciation of a role of each of these steps to arrive at the best possible sonic achievements.
This road map, in my opinion, will allow everyone, who really wants it, to climb at “The Highest Peaks of Audio”".
Read more…
13.02.2019 // Author: (Bigmisha) // Number of views: 498
BLOG #58. Holy Grail of the Third Dimension - A Concise Course in High End Audio’s Fourth One
“…if we would get back to “the roots” of the traditional “stereo” recording process (and, historically, that is exactly whence High End Audio’s legs grow), then “The Holy Grail” of the whole “stereo” industry is a recreation of a three-dimensional sound field of an original recording filled with tightly focused (“solid”) musical “images”…
…Thereby, a degree of manifestation of that primary effect of sonic “holography” should be, by the original definition of the “stereo” technology, the main criterion of the (“stereo”) “sound quality”…”
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“…if we would get back to “the roots” of the traditional “stereo” recording process (and, historically, that is exactly whence High End Audio’s legs grow), then “The Holy Grail” of the whole “stereo” industry is a recreation of a three-dimensional sound field of an original recording filled with tightly focused (“solid”) musical “images”…
…Thereby, a degree of manifestation of that primary effect of sonic “holography” should be, by the original definition of the “stereo” technology, the main criterion of the (“stereo”) “sound quality”…”
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29.01.2019 // Author: (Bigmisha) // Number of views: 381
BLOG #57. headfonia.com Just Announced Winners of Their HFN-2018 Awards
Their verdict:
"Best IEM (Price no objection): StereoPravda SB-7
The SB-7 for sure is one of the most unique looking universal IEM in the whole wide world. StereoPravda thinks outside of the box and it works, just try one with a good source and amp and you’ll know why it’s getting an award".
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Their verdict:
"Best IEM (Price no objection): StereoPravda SB-7
The SB-7 for sure is one of the most unique looking universal IEM in the whole wide world. StereoPravda thinks outside of the box and it works, just try one with a good source and amp and you’ll know why it’s getting an award".
Read more…
03.01.2019 // Author: (Bigmisha) // Number of views: 378
BLOG #56. RMAF-2018 - The Path of the Least Resistance: Shorting Down a Heavenly Access to the Ground of an Earthly Possession
"... the vast majority of the visitors come to the audio shows now simply because, instead of obsessively working to gain an "Access to Musical Heaven", the current audiophile community gradually replaced that long work with a short circuit to the ground of being too possessed over such a mundane and down-to-earth deed as an anticipation of a next cycle of not conscious – and that’s why - absolutely meaningless "Possession"".
(pictured left to right: Chris Sommovogo, EveAnna Manley, Misha Kucherenko)
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"... the vast majority of the visitors come to the audio shows now simply because, instead of obsessively working to gain an "Access to Musical Heaven", the current audiophile community gradually replaced that long work with a short circuit to the ground of being too possessed over such a mundane and down-to-earth deed as an anticipation of a next cycle of not conscious – and that’s why - absolutely meaningless "Possession"".
(pictured left to right: Chris Sommovogo, EveAnna Manley, Misha Kucherenko)
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17.10.2018 // Author: (Bigmisha) // Number of views: 1177
BLOG #55. headfonics.com Published a Review of StereoPravda SPearphone SB-5
headfonics.com published a review of StereoPravda SPearphone SB-5.
To quote: “The SB-5 is … a stunning vocal specialist… [with] that laser-like focus on vocal delivery…
… I personally found myself trawling through my jazz and singer-songwriter collection just to see how the SB-5 dealt with the vocal performances. If this is your bag then you will get sucked right into the SB-5’s presentation”.
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headfonics.com published a review of StereoPravda SPearphone SB-5.
To quote: “The SB-5 is … a stunning vocal specialist… [with] that laser-like focus on vocal delivery…
… I personally found myself trawling through my jazz and singer-songwriter collection just to see how the SB-5 dealt with the vocal performances. If this is your bag then you will get sucked right into the SB-5’s presentation”.
Read more…
30.09.2018 // Author: (Bigmisha) // Number of views: 415
BLOG #54. headfonia.com Published a Review of StereoPravda SPearphone SB-7
headfonia.com published a review of StereoPravda SPearphone SB-7
To quote: “What an experience the SPearphone SB-7 has been. The SB-7 certainly is a one of a kind creation by a unique designer, that’s the least one can say…
… Misha’s “No pain, no Gain” philosophy is what it is but if you can handle that you can be sure to get an incredibly good high-end sounding IEM with a sound signature you’ve never heard before. A technical marvel.
Well done StereoPravda”.
Read more…
headfonia.com published a review of StereoPravda SPearphone SB-7
To quote: “What an experience the SPearphone SB-7 has been. The SB-7 certainly is a one of a kind creation by a unique designer, that’s the least one can say…
… Misha’s “No pain, no Gain” philosophy is what it is but if you can handle that you can be sure to get an incredibly good high-end sounding IEM with a sound signature you’ve never heard before. A technical marvel.
Well done StereoPravda”.
Read more…
27.09.2018 // Author: (Bigmisha) // Number of views: 308
BLOG #53. theheadphonelist.com Just Published a Review of Our StereoPravda SPearphone SB-7
theheadphonelist.com just published a review of our StereoPravda SPearphone SB-7
To quote: "...every aspect of the SB-7 serves its sound quality and, in this regard, it definitely makes a statement. At such a price point, listeners are searching for a sublime audio experience, and that’s what the SB-7 provides". Read more…
theheadphonelist.com just published a review of our StereoPravda SPearphone SB-7
To quote: "...every aspect of the SB-7 serves its sound quality and, in this regard, it definitely makes a statement. At such a price point, listeners are searching for a sublime audio experience, and that’s what the SB-7 provides". Read more…
20.09.2018 // Author: (Bigmisha) // Number of views: 361
BLOG #52. YURI_ZVUKOGRAF Video Blog Published a StereoPravda DACCA Review (in Russian)
YURI_ZVUKOGRAF Video Blog Published a StereoPravda DACCA Review (in Russian) Read more…
YURI_ZVUKOGRAF Video Blog Published a StereoPravda DACCA Review (in Russian) Read more…
17.09.2018 // Author: (Bigmisha) // Number of views: 353
BLOG #51. A Quick Reminder on Our Seminal Moment
To commemorate our third anniversary one more time we would like to refresh everybody’s memory here on that seminal interview that I gave to my dear friend Gary Reber, The Editor-In-Chief of Widescreen Review magazine, in 2015.
Gary’s strong support for my ideas has been a crucial factor that did instigate my resolution to start the StereoPravda SPearphone project.
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To commemorate our third anniversary one more time we would like to refresh everybody’s memory here on that seminal interview that I gave to my dear friend Gary Reber, The Editor-In-Chief of Widescreen Review magazine, in 2015.
Gary’s strong support for my ideas has been a crucial factor that did instigate my resolution to start the StereoPravda SPearphone project.
Read more…
10.09.2018 // Author: (Bigmisha) // Number of views: 382