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OJAS is the creative pen name of Devon Turnbull. As a university student studying Audio Engineering he started using the name across a variety of disciplines including graffiti, music, graphic design and clothing design. In 2003 Turnbull co-founded the clothing brand Nom de Guerre with Isa Saalabi, Wil Whitney and Holly Harnsongkram. For the next decade, while primarily working in fashion, the name OJAS was kept alive on sound sculptures Turnbull was crafting for himself and a growing number of audio enthusiasts around the world. With a particular interest in high efficiency speakers and low powered tube amplifiers, Ojas audio equipment aims to bring realistic, natural sound to the listener. These products are the result of two decades of experimentation, engineering and explorations in the audio underground.
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The Nature of Sound


Sound is considered to be of two kinds, one a vibration of ether the other a vibration of air.
The vibration of ether which cannot be perceived in the physical sense, is considered the principle of all manifestation the basis of all substance the “music of the spheres” it forms permanent numerical patterns which are the basis of the worlds existence, this kind of vibration is not caused by physical shock as are audible sounds. It is therefore called anahata “unstruck”, the other kind of sound is an impermanent vibration of air, an image of the ether vibration. It is audible and always produced by a shock. It is therefore called ahata or “struck”.
Struck sound is said to give pleasure. Unstruck sound leads to liberation (Narada Purana).

MJ Spring 2026, HPLRD No.3, Special Edition

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In 2022, as an accompaniment to the HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No.1 exhibition is Lisson Gallery, Devon Turnbull wrote a first hand account of his lifelong love of DIY audio, and the creation of the system. It was intended to be a submission to the legendary Japanese audio magazine, MJ Radio and Experiment. Initially unable to get them to publish the piece in MJ, it was published by Lisson as a zine. Four years later, Turnbull is a staff writer at MJ, so when when HiFi Pursuit Listening Dream No.3 opened at Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, he was able to perform the same writing exercise directly in the magazine. In order to address the non-Japanese speaking, English speaking market, MJ produced this special edition, complete with a HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No.3 dust jacket and an insert with the original English text that appears only on Japanese in the magazine. 

MJ Spring 2026, HPLRD No.3, Special Edition
MJ Spring 2026, HPLRD No.3, Special Edition
MJ Spring 2026, HPLRD No.3, Special Edition
MJ Spring 2026, HPLRD No.3, Special Edition
MJ Spring 2026, HPLRD No.3, Special Edition
MJ Spring 2026, HPLRD No.3, Special Edition
MJ Spring 2026, HPLRD No.3, Special Edition
MJ Spring 2026, HPLRD No.3, Special Edition
MJ Spring 2026, HPLRD No.3, Special Edition
MJ Spring 2026, HPLRD No.3, Special Edition