Copper

David Wilson: RIP

The first 60 issues of Copper have featured 6 Audio Cynic columns headed “RIP”. One in ten is far too many for my taste; sadly, given the demographics of our industry, I’m afraid that...

Conversing With Choueiri: Part 2, Going to the ...

In Part I of my conversation with Professor Edgar Choueiri, he laid out the basis of how we perceive a three-dimensional soundscape, and what the cues were that our ear/brain...

Conversing With Choueiri: Part 1, It's Not Rock...

High-end audio is not rocket science … but don’t you ever wonder what would happen if a proper rocket scientist were to apply his expertise to the field? I know...

Claudia Schmidt

It’s been almost 40 years since a brainy, clear-voiced multi-instrumentalist from Michigan released her first collection of folksy yet idiosyncratic songs. Claudia Schmidt’s 14th solo studio album – that number doesn’t...

Munich and Everything After

Welcome to Copper #59! Blame any errors in this issue on jet lag, following the Munich show. We've got a brief photo feature on the show here, and we have a video chock...

Nagra

The history of Nagra begins, as is often the case in audio, with the tinkerings of one man. Stefan Kudelski was a Polish emigre’ whose family fled the Nazis and eventually landed...

Up Close and Personal

Listening, Not Hearing

A few days ago, I was lying on my couch, reading a book online from the Los Angeles Public Library (The Holy, by Daniel Quinn). On the hi-fi system played...

A Tale of Two Shows

It was the best of times… Scrap that. I’ve written about my friend and mentor Richard Beers several times, starting ‘way back in Copper #7. While I despise the lingua franca of biz-speak, it would...

Issue 58

Welcome to Copper #58! Every May I wonder how the phrase "May Day" became a distress call. Now I know---and it's a disappointingly mundane explanation. Sometimes everyday life is so...everyday. Our friend Rudy Radelic brings...

Why Doesn't My System Sound Better? Part 2

About half a year ago, in Copper #45, I wrote a bit about my system, and the seemingly neurotic doubts it aroused in me. Well, OK — not seemingly. I wouldn’t be...

Rikki Farr, Part 3

[Copper‘s Dan Schwartz had a lengthy conversation with concert promoter/raconteur Rikki Farr at his office at Riva Audio.  Part 1 appeared in Copper #56; Part 2, in Copper #57. This is the third and final installment of Dan...

Heather Maloney

The town of Northampton, Mass., is a creative hub from way back, attracting the type who make and share art in a scene more hippie than hipster. There are plenty...

It's All In The Materials

Busted!

A Tough Sell

There's a Record Store in Newnan

Newnan, Georgia, is the little town I live in, just south and slightly west of Atlanta. It’s not so little—the census counted 38,000 of us in 2016—but it’s not so...

Another Look at Axpona

What did Rudy find interesting at this year’s show? The 2018 AXPONA show has come and gone. In its new digs at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center, the show has hosted more exhibitors...

Show Report: Axpona 2018

Normally, I’d think twice about visiting Chicago in April—winter has a way of ignoring the calendar around Lake Michigan, and those April showers are often white and fluffy. The lure...

The Winter of Our Disc Content

Welcome to Copper #57! One last gasp of winter's wrath in Chicago, combined with Anne E. Johnson's mention of misheard lyrics elsewhere in this issue, led me to the title above. I hope that...

Musicians, Restauranteurs, Plumbers

You read a lot of brouhaha within the audio community about how musicians are not making any money out of streaming services.  There are so many streaming services available these...

Jerusalem

The pilgrim, after saying some prayers, prostrated himself on the Stone of Anointing, removed a small plastic bag from his coat, emptied its contents and rubbed them on the stone....