Copper


Munich and Everything After

Issue 59Opening Salvo

Welcome to Copper #59! Blame any errors in this issue on jet lag, following the Munich show. We've got a brief photo feature on the show here, and we have a video chock...

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New Editor at Inner Fidelity/AudioStream; Pro-J...

Issue 59INDUSTRY NEWS

Industry News recently reported the sale of Stereophile and its associated magazines and websites. In the wake of the sale, a number of staffing changes occurred, with the departures of longtime Stereophile Music Editor Robert Baird, AudioStream Editor Michael Lavorgna,...

Nagra

Issue 59VINTAGE WHINE

The history of Nagra begins, as is often the case in audio, with the tinkerings of one man. Stefan Kudelski was a Polish emigre’ whose family fled the Nazis and eventually landed...

"The Price is the Product"

Issue 59THE AUDIO CYNIC

Way back in 1999, the late Brian Cheney of VMPS loudspeakers wrote a piece called “The Price is the Product”. I was a little shocked to find it online on Audiophile Audition; frankly, I...

Electric Guest

Issue 59AND INDIE FOR ALL

When I first added Electric Guest to my schedule for this column, the duo was an indie band, and had been since forming in 2011. In the intervening weeks, the two musicians...

Guitar Influences, Part 3: Eric Clapton

Issue 59TWISTED SYSTEMS

As common as it is to read statements from rock n roll musicians that “When I saw The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show, I knew I wanted to be...

Listening, Not Hearing

Issue 59MUSIC AUDIO AND OTHER ILLNESSES

A few days ago, I was lying on my couch, reading a book online from the Los Angeles Public Library (The Holy, by Daniel Quinn). On the hi-fi system played...

Why Messiaen (Still) Matters

Issue 59TOO MUCH TCHAIKOVSKY

This is not a Messiaen Year. It would be the 110th anniversary of his birth, but I haven’t heard of any celebrations coming up. Apparently we pretty much maxed out...

Hoagy Carmichael, Part 2

Issue 59MUSIC TO MY EARS

Back at IU Hoagy was going to class and stopped in at the old Book Nook and sat down at the piano.  He’d been thinking about melody, how there was...

Jerusalem

Issue 59MUSIC'AL NOTES

The pilgrim, after saying some prayers, prostrated himself on the Stone of Anointing, removed a small plastic bag from his coat, emptied its contents and rubbed them on the stone....

Au Revoir, Dutoit

Issue 59QUIBBLES AND BITS

About ten years ago I shared an airplane ride with Charles Dutoit, the former conductor of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.  Dutoit had been principal conductor of the orchestra since 1977,...