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Table of Contents – Issue 198

Issue 198Opening Salvo

“Wo-oh, what I want to know, where does the time go?” Issue 198 is the 100th issue of Copper I’ve edited. Whoa! I want to thank all the wonderful people...

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Guitarist Ana Vidović Performs a Spellbinding S...

Issue 198Octave Pitch

Octave Records is honored to present internationally-acclaimed classical guitarist Ana Vidović on its latest release, Ana Vidović Live at Hampden Hall. Recorded with impeccable clarity using Octave’s Pure DSD 256...

The Next Voice You Hear

Issue 198Featured

So you had better do as you are told/you better listen to the radio.” (Elvis Costello, “Radio Radio”) Sanyo catalogued the MR2810 2-Band Radio Cassette Recorder in 1982. I received...

A Visit to Piega Loudspeakers

Issue 198Featured

  Copper has an exchange program with FIDELITY magazine (and others), where we share articles, including this one, between publications. Every reason to be in a good mood: The two managing directors, Manuel...

Invasion of the Steely Dan Stans

Issue 198Wayne's Words

"When I was twelve years old, my father, a jazz musician, tried to interest me in the music of Steely Dan," Prof. Michael Borshuk of Texas Tech University in Lubbock...

Wedding Belle Blues

Issue 198Audio Static

  This cartoon originally appeared in Issue 126.

Guitar Influences, Part Four: Albert King

Issue 198Twisted Systems

I woke up a couple of weeks ago and realized that I dreamed that Albert King called me to tell me he was coming over to jam. As Albert died on...

The Healing Power of Music

Issue 198The Run-Out Groove

    This cartoon first appeared in Issue 115.

Portable Audio, 1960s-Style

Issue 198Audio Anthropology

An AR-XA turntable, circa 1960s. As Ivan Berger noted in his article in Issue 105, hundreds of thousands were sold.   Elegant simplicity: the AR-XA pivot and counterweight.   This example...

Henry Purcell’s King Arthur

Issue 198Too Much Tchaikovsky

Merlin waves his Wand; the Scene changes, and discovers the British Ocean in a Storm, AEolus in a Cloud above: Four Winds hanging, &c. . . . AEolus ascends, and the four Winds fly off....

June Millington of Pioneering Rock Band Fanny, ...

Issue 198The Copper Interview

Before the Runaways, before the Go-Go’s, before the Bangles – there was Fanny. David Bowie was quoted in a 1999 Rolling Stone interview about Fanny: “They’re as important as anyone who’s ever...

Down the Rabbit Hole of SACD Ripping and DSD Ex...

Issue 198To Be Determined

I’m a firm believer in fair use when it comes to audio media — if you bought it, you own it, and you’re free to do with it as you...

Back to My Reel-to-Reel Roots, Part Three

Issue 198Natural Born Kessler

Just so there are no misunderstandings, I have to explain to you how focused is my interest in reel-to-reel tape. I absolutely don’t want to be challenged or trolled by...

Two Hands Clapping

Issue 198Featured

It was a lot of money, even with the student discount. He had never been to the symphony, let alone invested in an eighth row center orchestra seat. He wasn’t...

It Started With a 45

Issue 198Eureka Moments

I got my first transistor radio in 1961. It was cheap, made in Japan, and the brand was Lloyd’s — anybody remember that one? I couldn’t wait to listen to...

The Elegant Jazz Piano of Marian McPartland

Issue 198Trading Eights

Britain still had a few more months of World War I to endure when Margaret Marian Turner was born in Slough, England in 1918. By the time World War II...

How Records Are Made, Part One: Disk Mastering

Issue 198Revolutions Per Minute

As mentioned in a previous column (Issue 197), the record manufacturing process actually begins with the composition, arrangement, performance and recording, since these will greatly influence the sound of the final product....

Don't Fence Me In

Issue 198Parting Shot

Eye-catching imperfection, taken in Grant County, New Mexico.