Welcome To The Team Alberto Pittaluga, Thank You Slater!

We would like to welcome Alberto Pittaluga to our team of 8. He hails from Italy and complements our European chapter. In the same breath we would like to thank Slater for his contributions to the blog and wish him much fun in his “retirement”. You will still see a lot of Slater on Head-Fi.

Alberto, in his own words…

Bologna, Italy. Head-Fier “Hooga” since 2020. Alberto is a part-time music and audio lover. He’s got limited time to concede himself to listening to music, and that’s why his primary focus is min-maxing his audio enjoyment sessions. To  make things further complicated, due to family compromises he stays away from airing music on room speakers and dedicates himself exclusively to in- or over-ear drivers.

Be as it may, min-maxing audio enjoyment is not an easy task: the market is flooded with ever developing new products and finding the “good” ones – adequate to one’s tastes, well built, and subjectively affordable – is a problem.

A technology enthusiast since he was a kid, Alberto is not overly attracted by novelties for the sake of themselves, he’s indeed not a compulsive gear roller, and is indeed mainly interested in understanding why and how a given piece of equipment produces better or worse results.  His articles are about sharing his experience with the hope that it may be useful to others on the same quest.  

In real life he is Italian, in his mid fifties, works as a sales&marketing executive, and his other main technical competence is IT.

Alberto’s Tonal Preference

Alberto is mainly fond of acoustic jazz, and even more in particular of cool jazz, bebop, and its developments (hard bop, post bop, avantgarde). He also listens to a few other genres mainly progrock, folk, and songwriters, and some pop, yet cool jazz plays the lion’s part and as a consequence he strives for his primary gear timbre to be as neutral as possible, with carefully calibrated fast transients, extremely controlled mibass, extended sub-bass as as airy and defined trebles as possible, without scanting into screechy exagerations – in short, not an easy target at all.