Welcome to Copper #42! An all-too-brief vacation in the smoky Pacific Northwest brought to mind that classic album by Paul Siebel (which...
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In the previous two articles, I wrote about encountering Jack Casady and Phil Lesh as a teenager. Of course, I...
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You've probably already figured this out, but I am innately distrustful of fads, buzzwords, and whatevers du jour. I never...
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[Please note: this piece was originally run in Copper #6,  when distribution of MQA and MQA-encoded files was still very...
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Upgrading your Hi-Fi equipment can be both deeply satisfying, and deeply unsatisfactory, and both at the same time. Satisfying, because...
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Back in Copper #31, I wrote about the subject of Tone, and how it seems to have vanished as a...
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“I don’t know why I am telling you this. “ said the large woman who a short while ago had...
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At the ripe old age of 17, Alice Phoebe Lou decided she’d had enough of life in her native South...
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January 1, 1901 was a Tuesday in steamy New Orleans.  There were folks, mostly muttering vagrants and journalists, who would...
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I want to talk about British and Irish folk music. And I’d like to start with Henry Purcell. Wait, what?...
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Back in Copper #27, we reported legal woes at Samsung  and made mention of that company's purchase of Harman International....
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[In the last issue of Copper, Jason Victor Serinus introduced us to the beauty and communicative power of art song....
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The popularity of martial arts has grown exponentially in the US in recent years. The sale of the UFC for...
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The Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association -- better known as CEDIA -- holds an annual show for audio/video installers...
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