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Issue 173Opening Salvo

We are saddened by the loss of Loretta Lynn (90), one of the most iconic and groundbreaking country music artists of all time. Immortalized in the movie Coal Miner’s Daughter,...

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Instrument Designer Rick Turner: A Life

and Other IllnessesAudioIssue 173Music

These days, I struggle, aside from dealing with my illness, with taking in what else happens in the world around me. Like the death of Rick Turner at age 78....

Unlikely Beauty

Issue 173Parting Shot

Solar flare? Cosmic egg? A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope? No. This is simply an oil stain on pavement. Sometimes beauty is found in unlikely places.

The Prospects Are Good

Issue 173Audio Anthropology

How many of these has anyone seen? It’s a circa 1960s JVC Nivico SRP-471E turntable. Not much information is available about these online.   Detail shot of the SRP-471E. It...

Piper Payne: A Mastering Engineer For Next-Gene...

Issue 173The Copper Interview

After establishing her reputation as a mastering engineer over the past decade in Oakland, California for such artists as Third Eye Blind, The Go-Go’s, and LeAnn Rimes, Piper Payne merged...

Long Live Rock

Issue 173Featured

For a while now, I have been thinking about how classic rock will look in its last stages. Artists are quickly aging, and surviving members of the great old bands...

The Best of CES Awards

Issue 173Featured

On the top floors of 30 Rockefeller Center sits the Rainbow Room. It’s a lovely restaurant and sometimes event space that offers a breathtaking view of Manhattan. It even has...

Classical Music for a Desert Island, Part Two

Issue 173Featured

Part One of this series on desert island classical music albums appeared in Issue 172. To recap: this list reflects my taste. Yours may be entirely different. In fact, it’s very...

Around the World In 80 Lathes, Part 23

Issue 173Revolutions Per Minute

Having visited Japan and their disk recording lathes in previous issues (see Issue 171 and Issue 170), it is now time to travel back to Europe, this time to a...

Pilgrimage to Sturgis, Part 31

Issue 173New Vistas

Written by B. Jan Montana The Bhagwan hopped off the picnic table and walked around it, shaking his arms. He stepped into his Airstream and came out a few minutes...

Back to My Reel-to-Reel Roots, Part 24: The R2R...

Issue 173Natural Born Kessler

Ken Kessler assesses the increase in the reel-to-reel presence at the Tonbridge AudioJumble. Only five months have passed since the previous AudioJumble, but cataclysmic events have taken place in that...

Octave Records Debuts The Audiophile’s Guide: T...

Issue 173Octave Pitch

PS Audio’s Octave Records now offers its latest release, The Audiophile’s Guide: The Loudspeaker, a book and companion SACD/download that tells listeners exactly how to get the most out of...

Phantom of the Stereo: Creating a Convincing Ce...

Issue 173Speaker Stories

If, like me, you are truly determined to get the best presentation from your stereo system, and specifically, desire the ultimate in clarity and center imaging from vocals, what are...

Complete Recovery: Unusual Takes on Others’ Son...

Issue 173Complete Recovery

Sometimes a performer is so taken with another artist’s song that they just have to do their own recording of it. These cover versions can range from faithful portrayals of...

Simple Minds’ Jim Kerr: Following the Direction...

Issue 173Disciples of Sound

Some music sounds as fresh today as it did the moment it was first released. This has always been the case with Simple Minds. Their sound has always had muscle...

The 1980s: The Music Was Unfairly Maligned

Issue 173Deep Dive

Leave it to an unexpected COVID-driven quarantine to reassess one’s affinity for an entire decade of music. The impetus for this rabbit-hole deep dive was my Australian Facebook friend Katie...

Neil Young’s Time in the Ditch: A Retrospective

Issue 173Idle Chatter

There is something extraordinary about listening to a legendary artist hit their absolute creative peak, pumping out quality music seamlessly, in a manner that makes it seem almost too easy....

The NAMM Show 2022, Part Two

Issue 173Show Report

Part One of Copper’s NAMM 2022 Show report ran in Issue 172. Sony is a company whose presence was all over NAMM 2022, similar to how Adobe impacts any photography...

Pat Metheny: Versatile Jazz Guitar Virtuoso

Issue 173Trading Eights

Jazz fusion and contemporary jazz guitarist/composer Pat Metheny is the only person to have won Grammy awards in 10 different categories. And while his cache of 20 Grammys is not...

Dracula and the Dancing Plagues

Issue 173The Mindful Melophile

During the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries a few villains and events emerged that wouldn’t be out of place if you found them in episodes of TV’s American Horror Story....

The History of A&M Records, Part Eight: Jaz...

Issue 173Featured

Like almost every well-known record label, A&M Records also made some forays into the jazz world. Some would be more of a relaxed style of pop-jazz, while others would come...

Buffalo Springfield: Progenitors of Psychedelic...

Issue 173Off the Charts

There was folk. There was rock and roll. There was blues, coming back home via the 1960s British scene. But thanks to innovative groups like Buffalo Springfield, all those genres...