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Table of Contents – Issue 202

Issue 202Opening Salvo

Happy New Year everyone, from all of us! Copper contributor Howard Kneller, founder of The Listening Chair, has launched a new Facebook group. As he notes, “This group is a...

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2023: My Year in Music

Issue 202Featured

Looking back at 2023, I realized it was a fairly good year for me musically. I don’t buy many new recordings, but I caught up on some reissues from the...

Rhino High Fidelity: A Vinyl Series to be Recko...

Issue 202Frankly Speaking

In 2023, record label Rhino launched its Rhino High Fidelity series, dedicated to releasing high-quality vinyl reissues of classic Warner Music album titles. As Rhino notes, all the album lacquers...

A Visit to the Paris Audio Video Show

Issue 202Natural Born Kessler

“We'll always have Paris...” Ken Kessler dons a trench coat and fedora to retrace Bogie’s footsteps with a visit to the Paris Audio Video Show. It’s been six years since...

The Rumble: Keeping the Funk Going, New Orleans...

Issue 202Disciples of Sound

In case you missed it, funk is back and may be poised to be even stronger than it was in the 1970s. Ignited by a connection to the jam band...

The Folk/Rock Artistry of Dan Fogelberg

Issue 202Copper Classics: Off the Charts

There was a time when Dan Fogelberg’s albums sold like crazy, but a lot of people made fun of his sappy sound. The fact is, he churned out a lot...

Sublime Moments

Issue 202Copper Classics: Featured

I was cutting into a mango last night – it was a small variety known as Champagne, one that I have been smitten by for years. Its curvy shape can...

Capital Audiofest 2023: A Show Grows in Maryland

Issue 202Show Report

The most recent Capital Audiofest took place where it has for the past few years, at the Hilton Rockville in Rockville, Maryland. It’s grown from a casual affair in 2010...

The waVox Museum – A Monument to Willi Studer a...

Issue 202Featured

Copper has an exchange program with AAA (Analogue Audio Association) magazine of Switzerland (and other publications), where we share articles, including this one.     Willi Studer.   Willi Studer's life's work...

Stenheim Unveils a New Speaker at New York’s Fa...

Issue 202Frankly Speaking

I first became aware of Switzerland’s Stenheim loudspeakers at the 2019 New York Audio Show, where their Alumine Three loudspeakers impressed me, as much for their understated elegance and obvious...

Analogue Productions Reissues Genesis: Selling ...

Issue 202Frankly Speaking

In 1973 I was a freshman at the State University of New York at Albany. One night I was lying in bed in our dorm room, drifting off, when my...

Chapell the Band: Making Music Through a Legal ...

Issue 202The Copper Interview

A clichéd admonishment that practically every musician has heard during their developmental years is “don’t give up your day job.” The odds for most aspiring musicians to be able to...

The Impact of Music Streaming Services on Sound...

Issue 202Paul's Place

The story of music streaming is a tale of both technological evolution and cultural shifts. It all kind of kicked off in the late 1990s with the advent of MP3...

Treasures from the Vinyl Vault, Part Two

Issue 202Featured

Copper has an exchange program with selected magazines, where we share articles, including this one, between publications. This one's from PMA Magazine: the Power of Music and Audio.    Welcome to my series, Treasures from the Vinyl...

The Road Not Taken

Issue 202Parting Shot

Few tourists take a photo from this point in Zion National Park because the road is narrow and there is no pullout at this location. But on a motorcycle, one can...

Wilco's Jeff Tweedy: Author! Auteur!

Issue 202Wayne's Words

Wilco's front man has a new album and book almost all the time   Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording With Wilco, Etc., (2018)...

The Audio Video Show 2023 from Warsaw, Poland

Issue 202Show Report

Copper has an exchange program with FIDELITY magazine (and others), where we share articles, including this one, between publications.   The Right Kind of DifferentFounded 27 years ago, the Audio Video Show in...

On the Air Tonight

Issue 202Audio Anthropology

    It might be low in cost, but we bet it sounds good. From Electronics World, September 1959, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/public domain.     How can something as utilitarian...

PS Audio in the News

Issue 202News and Reviews

TheaterByte.com offers a review of the AirLens music streamer. Lawrence D. Devoe, MD noted, “BlueCoast’s DSD256 recording of Australian pianist Fiona Joy Hawkins and violinist Rebecca Daniel treated my ears...