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Table of Contents – Issue 214

Issue 214Opening Salvo

Happy New Year from all of us at Copper! In this issue: Octave Records latest release, Louisa Amend Live at the Muse Performance Space, features jazz singer Louisa Amend and band...

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Sacred Sabbaths

Issue 214Featured

When I was seven, the girl next door talked me into attending her Catholic church. That’s where I first heard Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli. I sat through the whole mesmerizing performance feeling...

Capital Audiofest, Part Two: More Thoughts and ...

Issue 214Show Report

In Part One of Copper’s Capital Audiofest show report (issue 213), I noted that overall, I thought the quality and consistency of the sound in the rooms was better than...

Listening to Miles Davis and Birth of the Blue ...

Issue 214Frankly Speaking

On December 4, 2024 I attended an extraordinary audio and musical event. Acoustic Sounds/Analogue Productions has reissued a set of long-neglected tracks by the Miles Davis Quintet in a new...

The Great Yacht Rock Scare of 2024

Issue 214Wayne's Words

Steely Dan Is/Is Not/Is Yacht Rock Yacht rock! OMG. LMAO. The time I wasted on Twitter arguing about "yacht rock." I don't really wish I had that time back, because...

From The Listening Chair: An Audiophile on the ...

Issue 214From The Listening Chair

The term “personal audio” has several meanings. However, I most often use it to refer to earbuds, headphones, and the components such as digital-to-analog converters (DACs) and amplifiers that are...

Another Look at AES Show New York 2024

Issue 214Show Report

As Copper readers may know, the annual Audio Engineering Society (AES) national conference is one my favorite audio events. The last AES convention, held in late 2024 at the Jacob...

50 Years of PS Audio,Part Six: The PowerPlant C...

Issue 214Paul's Place

Previous installments in this series appeared in Issues 209, 210, 211, 212 and 213.   After having gotten the perfect idea of how to build my own power generating station...

Jamie Howarth of Plangent Processes: Making Rec...

Issue 214The Copper Interview

In Part One of this interview (Issue 212), Jamie Howarth, President of Plangent Processes and I discussed the fundamentals of the company’s audio speed-correction and stabilization technology, how the idea...

How to Play in a Rock Band, Part Seven: Playing...

Issue 214Frankly Speaking

In our last installment (Issue 213) I talked about the challenges of playing on small stages, where you might not even have room to move more than a few inches...

The Vinyl Beat, Special Edition: Miles Davis an...

Issue 214The Vinyl Beat

Much of the audiophile world has been abuzz with this “new” Miles Davis release on Analogue Productions. This package, Birth of the Blue, is a compilation of the four studio...

The Vinyl Beat

Issue 214The Vinyl Beat

Happy New Year everyone! On deck are some recent releases, peppered with a couple of disappointments. After all, not all of our music purchases (vinyl or otherwise) are perfect!  ...

The Roots of Rock and Roll (Sort Of), Part One

Issue 214Featured

Introduction A much-debated topic in popular music is the origin of rock and roll music. Some people credit its beginnings to Bill Haley and the Comets for “Rock Around the...

PS Audio in the News

Issue 214PS Audio in the News

PS Audio components received Gear of the Year 2024 mentions from Future Audiophile magazine. The products listed include the AirLens (Best Music Streamer), StellarGold preamplifier (best stereo preamplifier), and the...

Vintage Voltage

Issue 214Audio Anthropology

    This month we're featuring some very cool gear from Vintage Chief.com, an online seller of restored older audio components, with worldwide shipping from The Netherlands. Here's a Musical...

Back to My Reel-to-Reel Roots, Part 13: Re-Educ...

Issue 214Copper Classics/Natural Born Kessler

After the last two issues’ litanies of sins, by both the tape manufacturers and the end users (but not the vendors), I tried to place myself back in the 1950s...

Octave Records Presents an Evening of Live Jazz...

Issue 214Octave Pitch

Octave Records’ latest, Louisa Amend Quartet Live at the Muse Performance Space is sure to delight jazz fans and audiophiles alike with its beautifully-recorded songs, captured live in an intimate...

How to Post Comments on Copper

Issue 214How to Post Comments on Copper

We get queries on how to post comments at the end of Copper articles. Here's how to get set up to leave comments: To comment at the end of an article, you...

Colors in the Sun

Issue 214Parting Shot

This photograph was taken in Ettore "Ted" DeGrazia’s studio at his Gallery in the Sun in Tucson, Arizona. It’s a detail of his palette and some of his paints. DeGrazia...