Copper
Schiit Goes B & M; RIAA Releases Music Sales St...
Schiit Reimagines the Company Store (Seriously) [Schiit is a love-it-or-hate-it force in the audio world. Mike Moffat and Jason Stoddard have been around the audio world for a good long while (especially Mike, who’s older than dirt),...
The San Diego Music and Audio Guild San Diego C...
The San Diego Music and Audio Guild is the largest and most active audio club in San Diego County. The 200+ member San Diego Music and Audio Guild is titled the...
Chant: Sacred and Profane
Scholars help us understand what chant is. That’s been true for a long time. As musical tastes changed starting in the Renaissance, the old chant melodies were “corrected” by well-meaning...
Bebop Deluxe
Mankind astounds with creativity, stupidity, ingenuity, and levity. The same species that invented the super-collider will drink beer with buddies in his garage and drop a frozen turkey into a...
Anaïs Mitchell
If you were to judge purely by her quiet, breathy voice and earnestly clipped diction, you might think Anaïs Mitchell was just another mousy folk singer. You would be wrong....
Kits!
It’s often said that we don’t build anything in America anymore. That’s clearly bunk; we just build different things than we used to. The same could be said of Americans:...
The Final Frontier
Consider for a moment the Fourier Transform, which I discussed back in Copper # 18. Hands up if you think they’re tough to understand! I want to open your eyes to the...
Bad Sound
…is in the ears of the beholder. I chose the image above because for me, the worst kind of bad sound is that which has a massive amount of harmonic...
Ducks In a Row
For about six months of my life, around the time of my 18th birthday, I played in a cover band—six sets a night, and finished at 2 AM. The band’s “home...
Professor Schenbeck Goes to a Show
Last month I was in Montréal for a professional meeting when Bill Leebens texted me: “Larry. Listen: there’s a hell of a good audio universe next door!” He was right,...
Chasing the Dragon
How owning an audio system is like “Chasing the Dragon” A old friend of mine became a gambling addict. His thing was Off Track Betting. He is extremely intelligent and...
David Chesky
[David Chesky is a co-founder of audiophile label Chesky Records and download site HD Tracks. He’s established an impressive list of credits as a classical composer, jazz pianist, and producer, and is well-known as an...
Schoenberg After Pierrot
I haven’t said much so far about Arnold Schoenberg’s craft, i.e., how he pulled the notes out of his hat. You’ll get some of that this time. It matters to musicians, who...
The Final Frontier
Consider for a moment the Fourier Transform, which I discussed back in Copper # 18. Hands up if you think they’re tough to understand! I want to open your eyes...
Schenna
I took the attached photograph in the town in Sudtirolean Italy where my mother was born. Because of the bright sunlight bleaching out the display on the back of my...