Copper


Issue 58

Issue 58

Welcome to Copper #58! Every May I wonder how the phrase "May Day" became a distress call. Now I know---and it's a disappointingly mundane explanation. Sometimes everyday life is so...everyday. Our friend Rudy Radelic brings...

Issue 58

Issue 58Opening Salvo

Welcome to Copper #58! Every May I wonder how the phrase "May Day" became a distress call. Now I know---and it's a disappointingly mundane explanation. Sometimes everyday life is so...everyday. Our friend Rudy Radelic brings...

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A Tale of Two Shows

A Tale of Two Shows

It was the best of times… Scrap that. I’ve written about my friend and mentor Richard Beers several times, starting ‘way back in Copper #7. While I despise the lingua franca of biz-speak, it would...

A Tale of Two Shows

Issue 58THE AUDIO CYNIC

It was the best of times… Scrap that. I’ve written about my friend and mentor Richard Beers several times, starting ‘way back in Copper #7. While I despise the lingua franca of biz-speak, it would...

Why Doesn't My System Sound Better? Part 2

Why Doesn't My System Sound Better? Part 2

About half a year ago, in Copper #45, I wrote a bit about my system, and the seemingly neurotic doubts it aroused in me. Well, OK — not seemingly. I wouldn’t be...

Why Doesn't My System Sound Better? Part 2

AND OTHER ILLNESSESAUDIOIssue 58MUSIC

About half a year ago, in Copper #45, I wrote a bit about my system, and the seemingly neurotic doubts it aroused in me. Well, OK — not seemingly. I wouldn’t be...

Rikki Farr, Part 3

Rikki Farr, Part 3

[Copper‘s Dan Schwartz had a lengthy conversation with concert promoter/raconteur Rikki Farr at his office at Riva Audio.  Part 1 appeared in Copper #56; Part 2, in Copper #57. This is the third and final installment of Dan...

Rikki Farr, Part 3

Issue 58THE COPPER INTERVIEW

[Copper‘s Dan Schwartz had a lengthy conversation with concert promoter/raconteur Rikki Farr at his office at Riva Audio.  Part 1 appeared in Copper #56; Part 2, in Copper #57. This is the third and final installment of Dan...

SME Buys Garrard; Shure Kills Cartridges; Gibso...

SME Limited Acquires the Garrard Audio Brand 1st May 2018 – Steyning, England – SME, the British engineering and specialist Hi-Fi company, has acquired the rights to the Garrard audio brand from...

SME Buys Garrard; Shure Kills Cartridges; Gibso...

Issue 58INDUSTRY NEWS

SME Limited Acquires the Garrard Audio Brand 1st May 2018 – Steyning, England – SME, the British engineering and specialist Hi-Fi company, has acquired the rights to the Garrard audio brand from...

Die Schöne Müllerin

Music history textbooks love to point out that Schubert’s song cycle Die Schöne Müllerin (The Pretty Miller Girl) uses poetry by Wilhelm Müller, the same poet who supplied the text for Schubert’s Winterreise....

Die Schöne Müllerin

Issue 58SOMETHING OLD / SOMETHING NEW

Music history textbooks love to point out that Schubert’s song cycle Die Schöne Müllerin (The Pretty Miller Girl) uses poetry by Wilhelm Müller, the same poet who supplied the text for Schubert’s Winterreise....

Hadley Labs

At Axpona a few weeks ago, friend and mentor Richard Schram of Parasound suggested to me that, given my dual citizenship in the worlds of racing and audio, I should look at...

Hadley Labs

Issue 58VINTAGE WHINE

At Axpona a few weeks ago, friend and mentor Richard Schram of Parasound suggested to me that, given my dual citizenship in the worlds of racing and audio, I should look at...

Hoagy Carmichael, Part 1

Hoagland Carmichael The sound of the neighbor’s rotary mower preceded the screech of the screen door opening.  “Don’t ya slam that screen door young man!!” Bang!  A whisk of a...

Hoagy Carmichael, Part 1

Issue 58MUSIC TO MY EARS

Hoagland Carmichael The sound of the neighbor’s rotary mower preceded the screech of the screen door opening.  “Don’t ya slam that screen door young man!!” Bang!  A whisk of a...

Heather Maloney

Heather Maloney

The town of Northampton, Mass., is a creative hub from way back, attracting the type who make and share art in a scene more hippie than hipster. There are plenty...

Heather Maloney

Issue 58... AND INDIE FOR ALL

The town of Northampton, Mass., is a creative hub from way back, attracting the type who make and share art in a scene more hippie than hipster. There are plenty...

A Tough Sell

A Tough Sell

A Tough Sell

Issue 58FEATURED

There's a Record Store in Newnan

There's a Record Store in Newnan

Newnan, Georgia, is the little town I live in, just south and slightly west of Atlanta. It’s not so little—the census counted 38,000 of us in 2016—but it’s not so...

There's a Record Store in Newnan

Issue 58TOO MUCH TCHAIKOVSKY

Newnan, Georgia, is the little town I live in, just south and slightly west of Atlanta. It’s not so little—the census counted 38,000 of us in 2016—but it’s not so...

Another Look at Axpona

Another Look at Axpona

What did Rudy find interesting at this year’s show? The 2018 AXPONA show has come and gone. In its new digs at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center, the show has hosted more exhibitors...

Another Look at Axpona

Issue 58FEATURED

What did Rudy find interesting at this year’s show? The 2018 AXPONA show has come and gone. In its new digs at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center, the show has hosted more exhibitors...

Guitar Influences, Part 2: Keith Richards, Chuc...

Keith Richards, Chuck Berry &… Mike Kagan?? Yeah…I know. I can hear it now. Who is Mike Kagan?  A legendary American (or British) wizard,  unknown to most of the world...

Guitar Influences, Part 2: Keith Richards, Chuc...

Issue 58TWISTED SYSTEMS

Keith Richards, Chuck Berry &… Mike Kagan?? Yeah…I know. I can hear it now. Who is Mike Kagan?  A legendary American (or British) wizard,  unknown to most of the world...

Alamosa Dunes

Alamosa Dunes

Alamosa Dunes

Issue 58PARTING SHOT

Vikingbåde

“I wish this boat would stop rocking so much,” I groaned to myself as I opened my eyes and looked in the bathroom mirror. It was only then that I...

Vikingbåde

Issue 58MUSIC'AL NOTES

“I wish this boat would stop rocking so much,” I groaned to myself as I opened my eyes and looked in the bathroom mirror. It was only then that I...

De Vriend’s Beethoven Cycle

I wrote in the last issue of Copper about how the Mahler Symphony Cycle has more or less replaced the Beethoven Cycle as the reference standard against which modern conductors and orchestras...

De Vriend’s Beethoven Cycle

Issue 58QUIBBLES AND BITS

I wrote in the last issue of Copper about how the Mahler Symphony Cycle has more or less replaced the Beethoven Cycle as the reference standard against which modern conductors and orchestras...