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Why I Quit Buying New Vinyl

Vinyl is a medium which my opinion is torn on. I like the sound, the experience, the large cover art, and the ability to read the liner notes without a...

Cats and Dogs…Well, Mostly Cats (Part Two)

(Cat haters might want to hit the “Next” button, but if you do, you’ll miss a new photo of Otis, my neighbor’s Golden Retriever, formerly the cutest puppy, with three...

Around the World In 80 Lathes, Part 17

In the previous episode (Issue 166), we looked at the work of Flo Kaufmann of FloKaSon in Switzerland, the man who decided to preserve the Neumann disk recording legacy by keeping vintage Neumann lathes...

A Hard Day's Night

Eico Eico

An Eico HF-81 integrated amplifier. With restoration, this unassuming circa 1960s component can sound excellent.   Eico HF-81 rear view showing its EL84 output tubes, generating a mighty 14 watts...

Talking With Larry Jaffee of Making Vinyl, Part...

Copper contributor Larry Jaffee is the co-founder of Making Vinyl, an industry organization dedicated to fostering cooperation among those in the record-manufacturing industry. Larry is also the author of Record Store Day: The Most...

Pilgrimage to Sturgis, Part 25

“Ever been married, Evelyn?” I asked her over breakfast. “Yeah, for about a year. I was 19 and he was 25. He had a red Camaro convertible. In retrospect, I...

Audio Art in NYC: Devon Turnbull’s Listening Ex...

While browsing around Steve Guttenberg’s The Audiophiliac channel on YouTube, I came across several videos featuring Devon Turnbull, a multi-talented audio engineer and former clothing and graphic designer and graffiti artist, who...

Richie Furay: Buffalo Springfield and Poco Foun...

In the promotional trailer for the forthcoming documentary on the life of musician Richie Furay, narrator Cameron Crowe says, “unlike his bandmates and those he influenced who attained international stardom...

Memoirs

Writing memoirs is a strange process. I have written 60-plus stories, but two things happened to curtail my writing. First, I have almost run out of stories to tell. (After...

Getting the Most from an A/V Receiver: Yamaha’s...

In Part One (Issue 166), we briefly covered some of the highlights of the Yamaha Web Editor SetUp online utility, which is designed to get the best sonic performance from an Yamaha...

When Domestic Bliss is an Audio Miss

When you walk into my apartment you stroll past the art in the foyer, and a dining room table, and enter the living room. (It’s the photo above.) Look around....

Experimental Musician Billy Yfantis Explores In...

Recently, I caught up with virtual space traveler, traverser of the celestial world, musician, and author Billy Yfantis. He’s an experimental musician who has released five albums, the latest being The...

The Los Angeles and Orange County Audio Society...

I first met Sunil Merchant at T.H.E. Show in 2021, an audio show that took place in Long Beach, California (as it did in June 2022, and I’ll be reporting...

Reconsider Baby: Elvis, the Movie

Among other things, Elvis Presley invented the rock ’n’ roll comeback. Up until 1968, ”coming back” from a career break barely existed in the new style since most fell short,...

Back to My Reel-to-Reel Roots, Part 19: Reports...

(Please note that this installment relates directly to the previous column, published in Issue 166.) Having established that my comparison between the Tuchel and the four-banana-sockets line-level outputs on the Nagra IV-S...

AES Europe Spring 2022, Part Three

(Copper Issue 166 featured coverage of AES Europe Spring 2022 presentations that included a look at the intricacies of tuning high-performance audio systems for automobiles; a study on the changes in how consumers...

Hooked on Earworms

“An earworm is a song or melody that keeps repeating in one’s mind.” Merriam-Webster Earworms can be found in many of the pieces and songs you enjoy listening to: all you...

Bottled Up

The Exotic Sounds of Madagascar

Most people’s knowledge of Madagascar comes from nature documentaries or Disney’s series of loopy animated movies. But Copper readers may also be intrigued by the music of Madagascar, which is every bit...

Paul Butterfield: Rockin’ the Blues

Have harmonica, will rock. That could have been Paul Butterfield’s slogan. Blues is at the root of rock and roll, but Butterfield’s commitment to the two genres benefited both equally....

Toshiko Akiyoshi: Founder of Big Band’s Rebirth

When one thinks of women in the big band era, it’s normal to picture a female singer backed up by an all-male band. That’s one reason Toshiko Akiyoshi is so...

Play It Like You Mean It

Charlie Parker said, “If you don’t live it, it won’t come out your horn.” Well, Bird nailed it in describing the tight thunder that emanates from the long horns these...

Play It Like You Mean It

Charlie Parker said, “If you don’t live it, it won’t come out your horn.” Well, Bird nailed it in describing the tight thunder that emanates from the long horns these...

Saturday Night in San Francisco on 180-Gram LP ...

In the mid-seventies, Al Di Meola was a young, hotshot jazz fusion guitarist with Chick Corea and Return to Forever. But he’d also developed a deep understanding of Latin music,...