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Review: In many ways it's hard to get a fix on U2's 90s period. It's as though they folded time between their breakthrough 80s albums and the comfortable middle age period post the turn of the millennium. However, Zooropa remains a wildly exciting album which saw Bono and his buddies weren't afraid to mess with the formula and embrace what was happening outside of their mainstream rock bubble. There are some surprising risks taken and yet their gargantuan song craft remains undiminished. On this 30th anniversary pressing there's also some bonus remixes tucked onto side four, bringing Oakenfold's equally supersized Perfecto sound into the mix.

Notes: The Wave is the latest addition to Zomo's popular VS-Rack series. This stylish record rack offers - depending on the thickness of the LPs and stack white - space up to 40 records. Thereby the records can be stacked in 2 different ways in the rack: Either classically between the ribs or also crosswise, so that you can quickly browse through your favorite vinyls.

Like all VS-Rack shelves, the Wave is made of powder-coated steel and convinces not only with its stable and safe stand, but also with its unique look, which makes it an eye-catcher in every living room or studio. The Wave is available in 4 different colors, so that it can fit into any ambience.

Technical data
Weight: 2,5 kg
Dimensions (W x D x H): 300 x 300 x 220 mm
Format: LPs
Capacity: up to 50 pieces
Material: Metal

Notes: The Wave is the latest addition to Zomo's popular VS-Rack series. This stylish record rack offers - depending on the thickness of the LPs and stack white - space up to 40 records. Thereby the records can be stacked in 2 different ways in the rack: Either classically between the ribs or also crosswise, so that you can quickly browse through your favorite vinyls.

Like all VS-Rack shelves, the Wave is made of powder-coated steel and convinces not only with its stable and safe stand, but also with its unique look, which makes it an eye-catcher in every living room or studio. The Wave is available in 4 different colors, so that it can fit into any ambience.

Technical data

Weight: 2,5 kg
Dimensions (W x D x H): 300 x 300 x 220 mm
Format: LPs
Capacity: up to 50 pieces
Material: Metal

Notes: The Zomo VS-Box Space is a state-of-the-art solution for the storage of vinyls. It captivates with its extraordinary design and high quality. It is laminated with a durable, water-repellent decor available in four different colours.

The Vinyl Box is quick and easy to assemble and the exclusive design will inspire you. This piece of furniture is a real eye-catcher for every living room.

The capacity can vary depending on the thickness of the records.

Technical specifications

Dimensions (W x D x H): 460 x 400 x 370 mm
Weight: 3,7 kg
Format: LPs
Capacity: 100-150
Material: Wood

Notes: The Zomo VS-Box Space is a state-of-the-art solution for the storage of vinyls. It captivates with its extraordinary design and high quality. It is laminated with a durable, water-repellent decor available in four different colours.

The Vinyl Box is quick and easy to assemble and the exclusive design will inspire you. This piece of furniture is a real eye-catcher for every living room.

The capacity can vary depending on the thickness of the records.

Technical specifications

Dimensions (W x D x H): 460 x 400 x 370 mm
Weight: 3,7 kg
Format: LPs
Capacity: 100-150
Material: Wood

Notes: The Zomo VS-Box 200 is a practical way to store your vinyl in a stylisch and efficient way.

The VS-Box 200 is made of solid wood and laminated with tough water-repellent dekor. This model is easy to install, multiple stockable and can be combinated with other VS-Boxes. The Box is also compatible to vinyls in protection covers.

The capacity can variate by the thickness of your vinyl.

Notes: The Zomo VS-Box 200 is a practical way to store your vinyl in a stylish and efficient way.

The VS-Box 200 is made of solid wood and laminated with tough water-repellent decor. This model is easy to install, multi-stackable and can be combined with other VS-Boxes. The Box is also compatible to vinyls in protection covers. The capacity can be various by the thickness of your vinyl.

Notes: The Zomo VS-Box 200 is a practical way to store your vinyl in a stylish and efficient way.

The VS-Box 200 is made of solid wood and laminated with tough water-repellent decor. This model is easy to install, multi-stackable and can be combined with other VS-Boxes. The Box is also compatible to vinyls in protection covers. The capacity can be various by the thickness of your vinyl.

Notes: The Zomo Recordcase RP-80 XT is recordcase with 75/25 divide in a classic style. The butterfly lock can be closed with an padlock (available as an optional accessoiry). The comfortable handle is rounding this nice shaped case.

Tecnical Data

Capacity: approx. 80 LPs
External dimensions (W x D x H): 350 x 250 x 330 mm
Internal dimensions (W x D x H): 315 x 245 x 315 mm
Weight: 3,1 kg
Format: LPs
Capacity: 50-99

Notes: The Zomo HD-120 Mono-Stick is the particularly cool version of the Zomo headphone series, which is particularly popular in club use and features a swivelling ear cup and an ergonomic handle.

The detachable spiral cable has a very stable plug and can be changed in seconds.

Particularly with this one-ear solution, it is important that the listener has enough pressure to be able to make the necessary volume even in extremely noisy environments such as discotheques. The kick-bass optimization mentioned above brings the desired effect.

The high-quality workmanship and the brilliant design create an increased style factor, which is particularly noticeable in the club area. The high-quality materials and drivers guarantee a long-lasting and professional sound experience of the highest quality.

Features:

Professional handheld headphones
Very good sound quality
Great processing
Transport bag, a set of imitation leather and velour padding are included in the extended scope of delivery

Technical Data

Cable: spiral cable, 3 meter, XLR to 6.3 jack plug
Adapter from 6.3 to 3.5 jack included
Frequency response: 30 - 30000 Hz
Efficiency: 110 dB
Weight: 253g
Headphone output: 1x 3.5 jack, 1x 6.3 Jack (with adapter)
Cable length: 3.0 m
Application area: DJ
Construction Type: On-Ear
System: Closed
Connection Mode: Cable
Rotatable auricle: No

Scope of delivery

Zomo HD-120 Headphones
Spiral cable 3 meter - XLR to 6.3 jack plug
Adapter: 6.3 jack to 3.5 jack
Carrying case
PVC ear-pad set
Velour Ear Padding Set

Notes: The Zomo HD-120 Mono-Stick is the cool variant of the Zomo headphone series.

The rotatable earpices and the ergonomic design makes the HD-120 a very populare choice when it comes to club performances. The removable spiral cables plug is build very solid and can be changed in seconds.

It is important for one-ear solutions to build up enough pressure to ensure an high sound level which is needed in loud environments like discos. Also the HP-120 has an kick-bass optimized frequency response.

The high quality and the brilliant design are an garantied eyecatcher in every club. The high-end materials and drivers are a garantie for a long livetime of these extraordinary professional sound experience.

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Notes: The Triple Cap Chaos(C^3 Chaos) is a 2hp analog, chaos based, noise oscillator, pseudo ring modulator/harmonics generator, and audio mangler Eurorack module available as a DIY Eurorack kit, PCB and Panel, or built.

It is a unique module, like the Diode Chaos, because it has never existed as a musical instrument until now. There is also no other module to my knowledge that can do exactly what the Triple Cap can do. The circuit(with several modifications) is based on the paper "Simple Autonomous Chaotic Circuits" by J.C. Sprott and Jessica R. Piper. As opposed to the Diode Chaos that generates control voltage this module focuses on the audio rate.

The "Emanate" potentiometer controls the coarser overall spectrum of the chaos, from lots of activity counter clock wise up to less chaos and more of a steady oscillation. The "Width, CV ATT" potentiometer can be thought of as more of a fine control for the chaos/oscillator. When something is inserted into the "CV" in the voltage normalization from the width knob is broken and the potentiometer now acts as an attenuator for the incoming cv. The Triple Cap is not a traditional volt per octave exponential VCO, and has a sort of narrow frequency range to exploit the chaotic behavior.

It expects a +5v to -5v max signal in to modulate the chaos. The "IN" jack is an A.C. coupled input for audio in, although cv and audio can work for both the "CV" in jack and "IN." The "IN" will interfere and interact with the onboard chaotic oscillator depending on the frequency of the input, which may take some experimentation. It can create ring mod ish sounds, to added harmonics, to almost bit crushed sounds depending on the "X" or "Y" output. The "X" output is a more windy noisy sinusoidal based output and the "Y" output is more squared off and aggressive, harsher sounding output.

Some quirks about the Triple Cap: The "X" output can offset negatively or positively a little bit depending on the pot settings, but both outputs tend to stay around 10vpp. With the "Emanate" and "Width" pots all the way up the typical frequency will be around 150hz although some will reach 200hz at this setting. With the "Emanate" pot full counter clock wise "Width" pot full clock wise the frequency will be around 250hz. It is possible to send signals into the triple cap that can bring it out of the desired range causing the oscillation to cut out.

The Triple Cap has a double sided panel. meaning one side has the classic graphics and the other is Soulless with less graphics.

Notes: The Entropy Expander is a 3hp Analog Random Voltage Generator that expands upon the features of the Entropy Euroack Module. Available as a Eurorack DIY Kit, PCB and Panel, or Built Module.

The Entropy+Expander packs together some of the most random voltage options in 6hp. It provides a controllable "Glide"(slew) out for the S/T\H, a comparator with a controllable rate("Thrsh") of random gates("Rand Gate") out with an input to compare other waveforms(Comp In, inserting a cable into here breaks the white noise normalization), and high pass filtered white noise resulting in approximate "Blue noise" (+3db/octave) and "Violet noise"(+6db/octave) outs.

The unique part of the circuit is a voltage controlled A/B switch thats normalled to the "Rand Gate" out that's switching between the S/T\H out(left Blue led window)and Infra out(right Red led window), the Glide control also effects the S/T\H coming out of the switch so you can get really random results from the "Entropy Out." Inserting a cable into "Switch CV In" breaks the random gate normalization and lets you toggle between A/B(left S/T\H out and right Infra out, indicated by the led windows) with your own gate or trigger.

There is a jumper on the pcb to select if you want glide on the s/t\h at, Entropy out, or un-slewed operation. There is also a trimmer for setting the amplitude of the incoming signal at "Comp In" which sets the frequency range of random gates. This may have to be adjusted depending on your Entropy version.

The random gate range can also be set up more as a noise oscillator by turning the pcb trim(clockwise) up or it can be set so random gates are extremely slow(trim counter clockwise) with minutes between random gates.

Notes: The Dual VCA is a 2hp 2 channel Analog VCA and Mixer Eurorack Module available as a Eurorack DIY Kit, PCB and Panel, or Built Module.

It is a DC coupled OTA(LM13700) Dual Linear VCA based on the same fabled design of the VnIcursal VCA. The 2 VCAs are summed together so it can be used as a voltage controlled mixer at the "SUM OUT" or all 3 outs can be used separately and simultaneously. 5 volts into the CV in will provide unity gain, anything above 5 volts can clip the input.

Notes: Diode Chaos is a 3hp analog chaotic low frequency voltage generator Eurorack Module available as Eurorack DIY Kit, PCB and Panel, or Built Module.

It is a unique module because it has never existed as an electronic music instrument until now. The module is based on a circuit from a paper called "A simple chaotic circuit with a light-emitting diode" written by Volos, Wang, Jafari, and Kapitaniak.

Diode Chaos produces 3 phases of interrelated morphing voltages including a chaotic trigger out. The range is 20-30 seconds a cycle up to audio rate, although only the X out and TRIG out go up to audio rate. The frequency is controlled by the RATE knob. Each output exhibits different behavior at different rate settings. X,Y, and Z outs like to stay in the 4vpp range although at different RATE settings the outs can reach 10vpp. The TRIG out chaotically releases 0-10v triggers although sometimes it will spit out smaller voltage peaks.

LED soldermask windows provide constant display of positive and negative voltage crossings.

Differences between chaos and random(some quoted and summarized material from Ian Fritz's site):

Chaos is "highly irregular, but still contained within a finite region (the "strange attractor")"

Chaos occurs in 3 dimensions.

Chaos needs a non-linear element (with Diode Chaos the nonlinear element is a red LED, and the chaos is directly visible and useable at the TRIG out).

Review: Those who've been paying close attention will know that Alex 'Omar' Smith has been mixing things up musically of late, veering away from the deep Detroit house he's famed for in order to explore a wider range of influences. New album "You Want" doesn't exactly reverse this trend, but it is far more rooted in his particular brand of seductive, off-kilter deepness and techno-tinged hypnotism than recent singles. That's undeniably a good thing, because nobody does crunchy, machine driven club jams better than the Motor City producer. There are nods towards Italian style piano house, disco, broken beat, jazz funk, Masters at Work and - more surprisingly - industrial techno (see the filthy closing cut) - but the resultant cuts don't sound like anything other than tried-and-tested Omar-S club jams.

Review: 'You Must Believe In Spring' is the celebrated 70th studio album from pioneering jazz pianist Bill Evans. Now remastered by the legendary artist of the trade Kevin Gray for Concord, the smoking, kiss-curled jazz piano great gets a full-on reminisce in stereo, this time charting his dextrous, chromatic ivory-straddling as part of a trio, with Eddie Gomnez on bass and Eliot Zigmund on drums. Soft, pining and full of harmonic curiosities and indistinct tempi, it includes a range of Evans' originals and covers, including Frank Laico's 'You Must Believe In Spring' and Johnny Mandel's 'Theme From M*A*S*H*'.

Review: The Flaming Lips' 2002 album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is being reissued as 6CD and 5LP 20th anniversary box sets - with both featuring demos, B-sides, radio sessions and more. Containing a godlike 100 or so tracks on it, it includes lost rarities like 'Psychedelic Hypnotist Daydream (Demo)' and 'The Deterioration Of The Fight Or Flight Response" (B-side Fight Test UK CD 1)' and Flaming Lips fans surely have their work cut out for them. A must for all obsessive collectors of the UK psychers' work, hoping to salvage their most obscure sonic trips - the ones that never came back.

Notes: - Works as a messenger style bag or a backpack
- Space for cables and AC adapter
- Built-in loop for attaching the bag to a suitcase handle

*Photographed Reface unit NOT included*

Notes: Warna is a very useful utility module that helps you to manage control voltages in the system. Crammed in just 6 hp, there are five normalled sections: two buffered mults, two inverters, and a summing mixer. Each multiple routes the input signal to separated outputs without loss in voltage. Warna is designed for unity gain - if you apply a specific voltage to any input, it remains the same on the respective outputs. Inverters are hardwired to mults and invert the polarity of the signal applied to them. Both mults are also normalled to the mixer section via inputs. Patching anything to these inputs breaks the normalization.

The top and the bottom section both are buffered 1-in-4 multiples. The input can be inverted with a switch, i.e. its polarity will be changed by 180 degrees. Four inverted copies are then available at the outputs, meaning you can use these two sections as inverter. Bi-polar LEDs display whether the signal is positive or negative: yellow = negative, red = positive. The centre section is a four-input summing stage with amplification factor 1, a so-called unity-gain mixer. The multiples are normalized to the mixer which can be deactivated by patching.

Notes: Poti II expander notable features:

- per-channel input and output attenuation for the SINE and ASSGN outputs
- per-channel shape modulation with switchable destination (wave folding, shape switching, PWM)
- stores settings during a power cycle
- LED indication of the discrepancy between the stored setting and current pot position
- 4HP
- +10/-0mA from Batumi II

Notes: An expander for Zadar, adding one more assignable input for each Zadar channel and manual triggers.