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Table of Contents – Issue 217
“I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.” – Igor Stravinsky In this issue: We conclude our report on Florida Audio Expo 2025....
The Vinyl Beat, AXPONA Edition: Audiophiles Jus...
By the time this is published, it will be four days away from opening day at AXPONA. I am one of those show attendees who simultaneously dreads and looks forward...
Celebrating National Heart Month
Last February was National Heart Month, so I decided to go for a PET scan. Shortly thereafter, my physician referred me to a cardiologist, who said I needed a stent...
Kraftwerk Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Autoba...
Kraftwerk pretty much invented electronic pop, and the “pretty much” part may be an unnecessary qualifier. After having released three previous albums of experimental-leaning music, 1974’s now-classic Autobahn found the...
The New York Dolls: David Johansen Looks Back
"We might as well been called the Tehran Dolls." Last February I got an e-mail via long-ailing but resilient New York rocker Jesse Malin and the Sweet Relief Musicians...
Florida Audio Expo 2025, Part Two: The Sound of...
In Issue 216 I offered my initial coverage of Florida Audio Expo 2025. To briefly recap, it’s become a major event with a lot of rooms and exhibitors. As has...
Octave Records Presents Love in the Moonlight: ...
Octave Records’ latest release, Love in the Moonlight: Operatic Fantasies for Violin and Piano by Susan Paik and Teddy Niedermaier, offers unique interpretations of beloved opera favorites, adapted for violin...
Rescuing Music With X-Rays
This article was originally published by Paul Scherrer Institute and in AAA Magazine. Copper has an exchange program with selected magazines, where we share articles, including this one, between publications. Following is...
A Film Review:Becoming Led Zeppelin
I’m writing this review of the documentary film Becoming Led Zeppelin from the lobby of The Edgewater hotel in Seattle, Washington. Why, you may ask? Many a rock star has...
Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers’ Blood on th...
When Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band rolled through Pittsburgh last August, the night wouldn’t have been complete if he didn’t invite out the city’s own favorite son to...
From The Audiophile’s Guide: Sample Rates and T...
PS Audio CEO Paul McGowan has launched The Audiophile’s Guide, a 10-book set of the knowledge he’s garnered over the years. It’s a comprehensive collection of practical information, from understanding...
Good Vibrations With a Collection of IsoAcousti...
Next up for this photo column are a collection of vibration management products from IsoAcoustics, located in the Canadian city of Markham, Ontario. I used the company’s footers, stands, and...
Book Review:The Musical World of Paul Winter
Paul Winter is a name familiar to most jazz and world music aficionados as a saxophonist, musician and composer across a variety of genres, and also as a dedicated environmentalist....
How to Play in a Rock Band, Part 10: When Good ...
As a musician I can tell you that nothing equals the excitement of playing a live gig. When you’re feeling good and the band is firing on all cylinders, it’s...
The Genesis MuseumCollectors Exhibit
One might think that, by superfan standards, Adam Gottlob was bitten by the Genesis bug relatively late in the band’s career, around 1981. Peter Gabriel had left the group in...
The People Who Make Audio Happen: Thoughts on C...
When Nancy Burlan and I headed to this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, it was with a mix of curiosity, and confusion. Ostensibly, our primary interests were in audio, digital imaging,...
Back to My Reel-to-Reel Roots, Part 16: Stalkin...
A slight departure this time, as a wonderful event – directly related to tape pursuits – took place on May 29th, 2022, After two years and three months, the Tonbridge...
PS Audio in the News
7 Review was extremely enthusiastic about the Aspen FR10 loudspeaker. The author of the review began by noting, “Not surprisingly, [speaker designer] Chris Brunhaver scaled down the FR10 from the...
Laser-Focused
The French Teppaz company made some very nice-looking portable record players and electronics from the 1930s until around the 1960s...? There's not much information about the company online, even...
How to Post Comments on Copper
We get queries on how to post comments at the end of Copper articles. Here's how to get set up to leave comments: To comment at the end of an article, you...
Air and Ground Transport
Taken in Lowell, Arizona, site of a daytime UFO sighting in the mid-1990s. Lowell was once a...copper mining town. It's now known for its vintage automobiles parked throughout the town.