Introduction
Audio, no matter what components you choose to purchase, no matter at what price point, and no matter if you choose your speakers to be driven by vacuum tubes or solid state components should be fun. Fun means that when you sit down after a long day at work (consider if you are a psychotherapist, a school crossing guard, or even a chef) and when you finally put away the work of the day, you want to listen to music that captivates you, music that gives you pleasure, music that is realistic and involving.
Helmut Brinkmann has been designing and making audio components for 19 years and in those 19 years has developed circuit topologies and has designed equipment that allows you to discover what good audio production is. His designs cross that ill defined bridge of accuracy and musicality and provide satisfaction whether you listen to CD, SACD or vinyl sources.
Music. Sound. It is not only with our ears we hear. We hear with a mind that organizes the information received by our ears. Mind structures reality. Data has no life separate from the software that organizes it. There are no observers, only participators. Music is heard through a set of filters which are your personal mental images and concepts that shape your hearing. These focus on rhythm, focus on harmony, focus on melody. If you set these filters too narrow, you won't hear music. Let the music rain on your brain and fall through the cracks. Let it take you. Non-verbal communication. Sub-consciousness to sub-consciousness. Achieve resonance. This resonance is an awesome power and it can happen live, at a classical music concert, and it can happen in your home listening room.
Music is the most mystical experience many people will have in their lives. People can experience something other through music. Music is that touch of other world-ness, universal-ness. Call it divine if you would like. Music is life. Give in to it. Let it take you on a trip. Loud or soft. Let it seduce you. Play it over and over again. Turn it on and come tune in. Rinse. Repeat.
Audition Brinkmann Audio designs for yourself and if you listen to a recording you know well, a recording of music that when you are day dreaming you find yourself humming, and through that audition you find yourself with goose bumps... your search is over.