2L Recordings, Three for the Winter Months Ahead

2L Recordings from Norway (website) tends to release its titles in clusters, and sometimes right before the holidays so that we secular folk can also have a soundtrack for the falling snow on the other side of that big open window over there. This is always a gift, in the purest of ways, but this year these three titles–Of Innocence and Experience, Beethoven’s Testaments of 1802 and The Horn in Romanticism–seem unusually suited to the waning weeks of a difficult year. Fortunately for me, these intimate recordings also shine for the audio system I have set up right now. I’m talking, in particular, about the Marten Oscar Duo loudspeakers that just arrived this week. They’re another in a long and splendid line of two-way monitors I’ve been evaluating, and their specific calling card is a fast yet delicate sound that’s the result of those Accuton ceramic drivers. After spending a few months with the Vimberg Ameas, which wined and dined me nearly every day, I’m headed down a long and dusty road where at the end I say yeah, maybe I’m kind of a ceramic driver kind of guy. Plus, you listen to these speakers, especially with the Jeff Rowland […]