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Baobab-Audio Memories of a long road of true passion of vintage audio and diys

Welcome to Baobad Audio.com. This site is inspired by a personal long experience in listening to various sources of sounds and musics.

Born in TOGO (West Africa) in the late 1950s from parents addicted to not really music, but rather good sounds. I grew up with various tube amplifiers and radios. I still wake up some nights with the sounds of those valve gears in my ears. It’s really just like yesterday. None of my parents was musician but we were brought up in sounds and music environment . I was 2 years old but still have vibrant memories of a Bar ( Pub ) called Delima. I don’t really know what speaker system they had at that time. but it was quite loud and I can still whisper the sounds of my childhood which the tropical wind carries to my ears some nights of the early 1960s from the PA speaker system of Delima. My Dad was manager in the post colonial national railways sector and my beautiful Mum was in trading business. They use to be home early on Fridays. So that we can enjoy very intense family reunions around a dinner with sounds of records, especially HIGHLIFE from neighbouring Ghana, or listening to shortwave broadcasting from BBC , Voice of America, Radio Canada , Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation 1 and many other short and long wave broadcasting Stations.

Yes, it’s still is a big family if I recall that we were 18 brothers and sisters in the early 1980s. I don’t have any memory of lacking anything I wished. N.ot only me but all my brothers and sisters.

Well you are wondering how a single woman managed to have such a large family ?. The truth is that my Dad married two wifes and despite this fact we were a very happily united family in those memorable days.

What’s an ultimate pleasure watching glowing valves?...

« GOD Surrounded HIS creations with analog waves. How faithfully will man kind, reproduce the authenticity in sound trought digital media , so that I dare witness, that human musical civilation has pleased my ears to the extend that I ever have the privilege to forget for a second, the sounds of well designed valve amplification and vinyl records >>

( A memory of my last conversation with my Dad from Paris 1987)