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Table of Contents – Issue 212
RIP Phil Lesh, Grateful Dead bassist and vocalist and one of the greatest musical titans who ever walked the Earth. Grateful Dead fans and millions of us offer boundless tribute...
Jamie Howarth of Plangent Processes: Making Rec...
Plangent Processes offers a unique playback system that corrects for the wow and flutter present in the master tape of a recording, to provide speed stabilization. It’s a combination hardware...
AES 2024 Show Report: The Future of Audio, Today
The 2024 AES (Audio Engineering Society) convention took place in the Javits Center in New York this past October, in conjunction with the NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) convention, which...
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings: Woodland
That Old-Time, New Style Roll and Rock You're sitting on a porch in the Shenandoah Valley, or maybe the hills of West Virginia, where freight trains are as common as...
Octave Records’ Jeremy Mohney Puts a Modern Twi...
Octave Records’ latest release is Pennies from Heaven by vocalist and alto saxophonist Jeremy Mohney. The recording features 10 selections from the Great American Songbook in a swinging style that takes...
Dandelion Therapy
The kids in the area called our neighbor’s boy “40 watt” because he wasn’t very bright. Like the rest of us, Danny lived in poverty, but he didn’t realize it because...
Thurston Moore: From Sonic Youth to Flow Critic...
Today, having a sense of daring is something anyone who chooses a life in rock and roll must possess in large quantities. There are few fast tracks to the top,...
McIntosh SESSIONS, Volume 1: The Peter Erskine ...
There is a captivating quality to music recorded on analog tape and released on vinyl during the 1970s, in particular, that has been seared into the memories of countless music...
The Vinyl Beat: the Doobies, Rhinos, Secret Ide...
Welcome to the November Vinyl Beat! This month might be all about elections and (for those of us in the United States) tryptophan from too much Thanksgiving food, but at...
Playing in a Rock Band, Part 5: What Kind of Mu...
So, you want to play in a rock band. An obvious question is, what kind of music do you want to play? Maybe you don’t want to play rock at...
Lou Reed, Joey Ramone, and Growing Up Jewish
Recently, Copper contributor Larry Jaffee, the co-founder of record industry conference Making Vinyl, gave a talk at Long Island University called “The Ambivalent Jewish Lives of Two Rock Gods.” Jaffee...
In the Audience with frontRow Reserve Cables
Audience, located in San Marcos, California, mostly designs and manufacturers home audiophile products. These include cables, power conditioner products, a few system accessories, a loudspeaker, and other items. Though the...
For J: Songs of Love
"I hope these songs bring back happy memories. You will know why I picked them. Every day we were together was the best day of my life. I will love you...
50 Years of PS Audio: 1997 and New Beginnings
When I asked folks to tell me what bit of PS Audio history they'd like to have me tell the story of, one of the most popular was that of how...
Back to My Reel-to Reel-Roots, Part 11
High Crimes and Misdemeanors Nobody ever accused the record labels of unnecessary largesse. While the audiophile companies like Impex, Analogue Productions, Mobile Fidelity, Speakers Corner, Intervention and others show care...
PS Audio in the News
The Tracking Angle called the Stellar Strata MK2 “a no-nonsense utility integrated amp with exceptional sound.” Review Evan Toth liked its resolution, soundstage capabilities, and “a detailed and accurate view...
A RadioShack Extravaganza!
We rocket into November with an all-RadioShack edition of "Audio Anthropology." The Shack was a retail store familiar to audio, electronics, musician, DIY and computer hobbyists from 1921...
Cactus Cornucopia
Speakers aren't the only things that can have spikes. Here are barrel cacti in a garden in the Catalina Foothills near Tucson, Arizona.