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Table of Contents – Issue 201

Issue 201Opening Salvo

All of us at Copper wish everyone a happy and healthy holiday season and new year, and peace on Earth in these difficult times. Beginning with this issue you’ll see...

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Long Island’s Audio Den Opens a New Listening Room

Issue 201Featured

The Audio Den has been one of the New York Metro area’s top dealers since 1976. Like so many other retailers, they expanded into home theater and custom installation in...

High-End Audio Luminary Michael Fremer Produces...

Issue 201Frankly Speaking

Michael Fremer needs little introduction to Copper readers. He’s been a stalwart of the high-end audio industry for decades, and is currently the editor of The Tracking Angle and editor...

On the Scene at AES New York 2023

Issue 201Show Reportweb-2517

As Frank Doris and John Seetoo noted elsewhere in this issue, AES New York 2023 was a rousing success. The conference always has something for everyone; it’s a trade show...

Deko Entertainment: Keeping Current With Legacy...

Issue 201The Copper Interview

Our original intention was to revise and update the article and interview Ray Chelstowski did previously, to make it current for Deko’s activities in 2023. That updated article appeared in...

Octave Records Welcomes the Holidays with Guita...

Issue 201Octave Pitch

Octave Records celebrates the holidays with The Spirit of Christmas by internationally-renowned guitarist Alfredo Muro, who brings a heartfelt intimacy and virtuoso performances to a wide range of seasonal favorites....

Charlie Brown Goes to The Nutcracker With theRo...

Issue 201Octave Pitch

Octave Records warmly invites everyone to celebrate the holiday spirit with Charlie Brown Goes to The Nutcracker by the Ron LeGault quintet. The band puts a jazz spin on the...

The Kinks: The Journey – Part 2: Wrapping Up a ...

Issue 201Frankly Speaking

I’ve never made a secret of the fact that I’m a Kinks fan. I’m in good company – they’re one of the most beloved and important bands to come out...

More Coverage from the AES 2023 Convention

Issue 201Show Report

Immersive audio was the unequivocally hottest topic at AES New York, and both long-established companies and newly-formed ones were all touting their latest offerings to appeal to immersive sound aficionados....

Winter Wonderland

Issue 201Parting Shot

This photo was made in the foothills of the Patagonia Mountains of Southern Arizona. The Patagonias are the northernmost terminus of the Sierra Madre Occidental range, which runs all the...

AES New York 2023: The Audio Engineering Societ...

Issue 201Show Report

Because of COVID, I was unable to attend the Audio Engineering Society’s (AES) annual convention in 2022, so I was particularly stoked to go to AES New York 2023, held...

Johann Adolph Hasse: 18th Century Opera Star

Issue 201Copper Classics: Something Old / Something New

When your wife is a famous soprano and your best friend is Europe’s most sought-after librettist, you’re likely to have one heck of an opera-writing career. That certainly held true...

Tokyo Jazz Joints: Immersion in a Parallel Univ...

Issue 201Featured

Copper has an exchange program with FIDELITY magazine (and others), where we share articles, including this one, between publications.   That smell! Nothing compares! Old record sleeves, the dust of decades past.  ...

Rockin' the Holidays

Issue 201Audio Static

Warmest wishes for a happy and healthy holiday season and new year, from all of us at Copper.

Can You Hear Me Now?

Issue 201Audio Anthropology

    In 1991 The Absolute Sound decided to do its first Guide to High-End Audio Components. I was on staff and it was my first experience working on a...

Comedy of Errors

Issue 201Copper Classics

If you’re human, you make mistakes. Sometimes they are driven by emotion, sometimes by ignorance. But you’re never going to escape them, and you’ll always be sorry you didn’t, or couldn’t,...

PS Audio in the News

Issue 201News and Reviewsweb-2517

Positive Feedback has a review of the Stellar Phono preamplifier in Issue 130. Michael Laurance said, “It's exciting when a component makes a tremendous difference the moment it becomes a...

The Seeker

Issue 201The Run-Out Groove

  This cartoon was first published in Issue 132.