Copper


…and the Hits Just Keep On Comin’…

Issue 20Opening Salvo

Welcome to Copper #20! I think this is a particularly interesting issue, and I'm happy to tell you that we have some surprises and new contributors lined up in the next few issues. The title above...

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Subwoofery: The Finale

Issue 20FEATURED

Electronic Adjustments  Ok, now that we’ve accomplished the bassic (pun intended, sorry!) steps, we are on the home stretch.  These final steps require personal choice/taste as well as some technical adjustments. In...

Leon

AND OTHER ILLNESSESAUDIOIssue 20MUSIC

2016 has been a helluva year. You know: the list of musicians and music-related people who have passed, in any one year, would be too much; David Bowie, Paul Kantner, George Martin, Prince, all of...

Do You Even DIY, Bro?

Issue 20FEATURED

Darren Myers’ Make It Yourself articles, run in Copper issues 15, 16, and 17, are among the most popular articles we’ve ever run. Unfortunately, projects take time to develop: plotting, postulating, obtaining parts, documenting the project, building...

Sacred Ground

Issue 20IN MY ROOM

This room is our masterpiece. A two-channel haven for playback of what we record at Sacred Grounds Studios in North Hollywood, California. Resolution was the main design parameter in our...

Growin' Up Together: Stevie Wonder

Issue 20MUSIC TO MY EARS

I remember vividly the first time I heard ‘Sir Duke’ from Songs in the Key of Life.  It was the fall of 1976 and I was driving across the bridge between...

Bad Manners

Issue 20TOO MUCH TCHAIKOVSKY

We were just sitting there, listening to music. My friend Bernard the Cellist had come to town and I couldn’t help showing off my system. Someone suggested we hear some...

Weathers

Issue 20VINTAGE WHINE

There are some brands whose influence extends far beyond their ownership base. When it comes to cars, I think of Alfa Romeo: nearly everyone has some sort of emotional connection...

Black Friday

Issue 20THE AUDIO CYNIC

I wondered when the term “Black Friday” came to mean the launch of the Christmas/Hanukkah selling season on the day after Thanksgiving. In my mind, “Black Friday” referred to the...

Vøringsfossen

Issue 20PARTING SHOT

Vøringsfossen is located at the top of Mårbødalen on the western slopes of Norway's Hardangervidda National Park. A blend of two exposures. "After having shot the base exposure I lifted...

Fifty Years After

Issue 20QUIBBLES AND BITS

Back in 2000, Dr. Michael Unser of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, published an interesting technical paper entitled “Sampling – 50 years after Shannon”.  In this paper...