Yet another great review of Django XL in the Taiwanese audio magazine Audio Art. We had a bit translated and one of the sentences went something like “We can’t even imagine a competitor to Marten Django XL”
If you understand the language, you can download a pdf of the review here.
Thank you very much:)
Now, this is pretty cool. When we took part in the Munich HiFi Show earlier this year, the guys from Nagra brought this little old school gadget called Nagra SN ‘Série Noire’ recorder. I had a chat with Matthieu Latour and found out some interesting facts about it.
Nagra started making it back in the early sixties on a request from the CIA. The CIA used it solidly for about a decade and so it didn’t exist to the rest of the world. However, technology eventually caught up and spies started using detection devices that read frequencies that the ‘Série Noire’ recorder used and in the end it was fairly common to use both the recorder as well as the detection device.
There’s a story about an American spy meeting a Russian ditto that started chatting about their Nagra gadgets without any other introduction, they just both knew they both were wired. Probably a similar conversation to what goes on today, comparing iPhones and other gadgets.
When it was released to the general public it became very popular with film making as it’s so small that the actors can fit it in a pocket and then record their lines. It was also used by NASA in space travel.
When it’s closed it looks like it could have been made by Apple, only 50 years earlier. An inspiration for the macbook perhaps?
I really wanted to sneak it into my pocket and ‘borrow’ it but I guess that would’ve been downright stealing, not sneaking. I’m surprised none else did. Maybe the prospect of having the CIA after you scared people off:)
We are participating at the brilliant Hong Kong HiFi Show this year together with our distributors in Hong Kong; Ronnie & Danny. It will be a lot of fun and you are more than welcome to come and see us. We’re in room: X03. If you’re in the area, please come for a visit.
