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Cables: Time is of the Essence, Part 2

[In the last issue of Copper, we began a series of articles by Belden engineer Galen Gareis on the science involved in the design of audio cables. We continue here with Galen’s explanation...

Editor’s Choice

No, not this Editor. Continuing from my last column, inspired by the arrival of a big batch of old issues of The Absolute Sound, The Editor referred to is TAS‘ founder, HP—Harry Pearson. For...

Eating

“If you touch me again,” I yelled, “I will kill you”— and I meant it. I travel quite a lot, and often the high point of the day is eating...

Still More of the ’67 Psychedelic Shootout!

Both the Beatles & The Rolling Stones released 2 albums in 1967. For the purpose of this face off (and because I, alone, make the rules) we are only dealing...

Brainz the Size of a Planet, Part 3

I have been describing the free-access crowd-sourced music metadata database MusicBrainz over the course of the last two issues of Copper.  I started out by describing the need for what I...

What Will Be New, in the New Year?

It’s been 141 years since Bell’s first call over the device that became the telephone. 140 years ago, Edison’s phonograph became the first device that could play back recorded sound....

What Is a Bass? Part 3: Alternative Materials

In the first two installments, I talked about a bit of the history of electric basses, and covered the innovations that came from Alembic. This time, I want to discuss...

Special Effects

It’s holiday season as I write this, and I can’t help feeling grateful for the bread I’ll break and the people with whom I’ll break it. This year I also...