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Gary Steel @garysteel.bsky.social · 1d

Sexy stereo of the day: Vintage Diatone VS-100F speakers.

Gary Steel @garysteel.bsky.social · 2d

The rumour is true: there is a hi-fi appreciation scene in Northland. I attended a high-end hi-fi event in Whangarei at the weekend, and can attest to the fact.

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North power: Whangarei hi-fi event wakes up the suburbs - Witchdoctor

GARY STEEL rocks up to a day full of high-end hi-fi in Northland and finds it to be both sonically enjoyable and socially affable.

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Gary Steel @garysteel.bsky.social · 2d

My thoughts on the Chris Knox biography out this week.

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Not Given Lightly – A long and winding road - Witchdoctor

Sixteen years after the stroke that put a full stop on his career Chris Knox gets a biography that describes his life, character and achievements in forensic detail. Reviewed by GARY STEEL.

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Gary Steel @garysteel.bsky.social · 2d

Sexy stereo of the day: Lowther Hegeman loudspeaker.

Gary Steel @garysteel.bsky.social · 3d

Sexy stereo of the day: Mola Mola's Tambaqui DAC.

Gary Steel @garysteel.bsky.social · 3d

There's only one more day to have a go at winning this incredible diminutive music maker. Read my review and scroll to the bottom and click on the link to enter.

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WiiM’s Amp Ultra – Revolution in a tiny box - Witchdoctor

GARY STEEL fiddles with WiiM’s sensational new Amp Ultra and grasps for ways to explain why it’s so effing amazing.

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Gary Steel @garysteel.bsky.social · 4d

Sexy stereo of the day: What the flibbertigibbets?

Gary Steel @garysteel.bsky.social · 5d

I hope I don't sound too hyperbolic in describing this tiny WiiM streaming amp as a revolution in a box, but it is just that.

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#WiiMAmpUltra #ampstreamer #BudgetFriendly #goldbadge

WiiM’s Amp Ultra – Revolution in a tiny box - Witchdoctor

GARY STEEL fiddles with WiiM’s sensational new Amp Ultra and grasps for ways to explain why it’s so effing amazing.

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Gary Steel @garysteel.bsky.social · 5d

Sexy stereo of the day: Pro-Ject Signature 12.1.

Gary Steel @garysteel.bsky.social · 7d

Sexy stereo of the day: LampizatOr Horizon 360 tube DAC.

Gary Steel @garysteel.bsky.social · 7d

The very first album review I ever wrote was on this record, so it's only sensible that I mark the occasion of its 50th anniversary (and a box set to match) with another one.

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The Zappa album that even agnostics should hear - Witchdoctor

Frank Zappa – One Size Fits All 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe (Universal)As a super-duper expanded box version of One Size Fits All arrives in the shops GARY STEEL reckons it’s a record that even hate...

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Gary Steel @garysteel.bsky.social · 8d

Sexy stereo of the day: Quad 3 Integrated.

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Gary Steel @garysteel.bsky.social · 9d

Sexy stereo of the day: Violectric HPA-324 Desktop Headphone Amp.

Gary Steel @garysteel.bsky.social · 11d

Sexy stereo of the day: Wilson Benesch Eminence speakers.

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Gary Steel @garysteel.bsky.social · 13d

Sexy stereo pic of the day: Focal Bathys MG headphones.

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Gary Steel @garysteel.bsky.social · 14d

Sexy stereo of the day: Constellation Statement.

Gary Steel @garysteel.bsky.social · 14d

With Craig Robertson's exhaustive biography of Chris Knox due out on Oct 9, here's a reminder that there's a (searchable) wealth of Knox stuff on Witchdoctor, including this "lost" 1986 interview.

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#ChrisKnox #flyingnun #ToyLove #talldwarfs #nzmusic

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Gary Steel @garysteel.bsky.social · 15d

Sexy stereo of the day: Dan D'Agostino-Momentum C2 Preamplifier.

Gary Steel @garysteel.bsky.social · 16d

Sexy stereo of the day: Acoustic Signature Invictus Neo.

Gary Steel @garysteel.bsky.social · 16d

My latest best-to-worst countdown of films and shows on streaming telly in NZ.

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The best (and worst) streaming TV shows & films right now - Witchdoctor

A regular column in which GARY STEEL sifts through the mountain of available streaming TV and brings your attention to great new and old shows as well as those to avoid in best-to-worst capsule review...

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Gary Steel @garysteel.bsky.social · 16d

We're giving this very cool wee streamer/amp combo away on Witchdoctor this month. Open to everyone who signs up to our non-invasive fortnightly email, which simply keeps you up with content on the sharpest entertainment site in NZ.

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Win this! A WiiM Amp Ultra! - Witchdoctor

An incredible, diminutive yet powerful 100-watt amp and streamer from those clever folks at Wiim – the WiiM Amp Ultra! Witchdoctor and Soundgroup are giving away the new WiiM Amp Ultra combination amp...

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Gary Steel @garysteel.bsky.social · 19d

My random cogitations on a recent visit to Auckland's CBD. Includes Marbeck's - shortly to close forever - rough sleepers and later, the anonymity of a suburban mall.

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#marbecks #recordstore #aucklandcbd #roughsleepers #dereliction #vinylbargains #jbhifi

Random Cogitations: Downtown in the dumps - Witchdoctor

In the third of his diary-type Random Cogitations rambles, GARY STEEL finds himself at a loose end in Auckland’s CBD on a Sunday morning coming down.

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Gary Steel @garysteel.bsky.social · 20d

Sexy stereo of the day: A Japanese hi-fi bar.

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Gary Steel @garysteel.bsky.social · 24d

Hermeto Pascoal, gone. 😩

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Brazilian composer Hermeto Pascoal, known as 'The Sorcerer', dies aged 89

Brazilian musician Hermeto Pascoal, who played - and even boxed - with Miles Davis and was known as "The Sorcerer" for coaxing tunes from everything from a live piglet to water-filled kettles, died on Saturday aged 89.

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Gary Steel @garysteel.bsky.social · 24d

Sexy stereo of the day: Vandersteen Quatro CT Wood Evo Speakers.