Build notes, restoration deep-dives, and release news.
We need to talk about Whatnot. For the uninitiated: Whatnot is a live auction app where a charming person holds up a record, talks very fast, and a countdown timer performs psychological warfare on…
Drop a needle on a worn record and two things happen at once. You hear the music — and the Kraken sees everything else. Today we’re showing off a feature we’ve been quietly polishing…
New arrival day at the bench, and this one set a record. Ten minutes. That’s the time from the delivery driver’s thump on the porch to Kraken Vinyl Elixir running the new V2+ engine…
Quick update from the bench, typed slightly louder than necessary because my ears are ringing and I’ve lost all sense of volume. This is what happens when “one more listening session” becomes a lifestyle.…
Let’s get the headline out of the way, plainly and without spin: The Kraken Vinyl Elixir invitational beta is officially moving from late Q3 to TBD Q4 2026. Here’s the thinking, and it’s the…
Hello. My name is Richard, and I’m an audio junkie. (“Hi, Richard.”) It’s been zero days since my last critical listening session. I own more headphones than a person has ears. I have opinions…
A confession from the bench: the house chores are not getting done. The new Elixir Engine V2 is deep in testing, and here’s the thing — every single record I drop is data. Each…
Regular readers know the drill by now: tracking pages open, diesel-engine hearing engaged, productivity conveniently relocated to the room with the best window angle on the street. The mail truck cometh, and this week’s…
Time for a development update — the honest kind, with real issue numbers from the tracker. The in-house beta squad has been putting KVE through daily use, the feedback is flowing, and this is…
Two big events at KVE this week. First: the bench got cleaned. Actually cleaned — cables coiled and labeled, the DAC pile organized into something resembling a filing system, the cardboard mountain finally hauled…