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Stereo Buying for Audio Idiots: Three Quick Tips
Stereo Buying for Audio Idiots: Three Quick Tips
I once bought two hefty speakers at a yard sale and stuffed them into the backseat of my four-door Mazda. It was like loading R2D2 into an X-wing fighter –... Read more...
CTI Records, Part Five: Guitar Greatness
CTI Records, Part Five: Guitar Greatness
CTI Records was home to many artists, among them a handful of guitarists who backed other artists and led their own recording dates, along with a bassist whose decades-long career... Read more...
Ulrike Schwarz, Jim Anderson, and Their New Paradigm for Remote Interactive Recording (with Jane Ira Bloom) – Part One
Ulrike Schwarz, Jim Anderson, and Their New Paradigm for Remote Interactive Recording (with Jane Ira Bloom) – Part One
High-resolution recording of music for immersive audio requires the utmost attention to detail in order to capture pristine tones and reproduce the hyper-realistic sound of music performed live from a... Read more...
Lounging with In-Ear Monitors, Part One
Lounging with In-Ear Monitors, Part One
If one of the greatest limitations to getting good stereo sound is the dominating effect of your room’s sonic and tonal personality, then what might be a better way of... Read more...
The Many Sides of David Chesky
The Many Sides of David Chesky
Located in the former Time Warner Building, now The Deutsche Bank Center, is Dizzy’s Club. Along with Rose Hall and The Appel Room, the three venues comprise Jazz at Lincoln... Read more...
Lou Reed’s Spirit Remains in New York, On Record, and On Stage
Lou Reed’s Spirit Remains in New York, On Record, and On Stage
Lou Reed passed away on Oct. 27, 2013 but interest in him remains high, as evidenced this past June by the opening of an exhibit at the New York Public... Read more...
How I Learned to Stop Kvetching and Make Nice With Handel’s Messiah
How I Learned to Stop Kvetching and Make Nice With Handel’s Messiah
Christmas is approaching with all the subtlety of a runaway tanker train. Pop-up ads, doorbuster sales, inflatable plastic figures on people’s lawns, and the Christmas music machine, starring saints, snowmen,... Read more...
Opera for Operaphiles
Opera for Operaphiles
Opera is definitely not everyone’s cup of tea. My own children and at least one of my brothers detest it. I understand. At first, it can seem very artificial, almost... Read more...
Lori Lieberman’s Truly Dives Into Jazz (and Audiophile Sound)
Lori Lieberman’s Truly Dives Into Jazz (and Audiophile Sound)
In 1971, the critical acclaim and double platinum sales of Joni Mitchell’s Blue sparked a rush from other record labels to sign their own long-tressed, vulnerable-sounding acoustic folk-based singer-songwriters whose... Read more...
Analog Recording is Alive and Well: Audio-Technica’s 60th Anniversary Event
Analog Recording is Alive and Well: Audio-Technica’s 60th Anniversary Event
On the eve of the 153rd Audio Engineering Society convention in New York City, Audio-Technica threw a 60th anniversary party at a restaurant in Koreatown. [Full disclosure: I do some... Read more...
Amoeba Music: What’s In My Bag?
Amoeba Music: What’s In My Bag?
Considering my advanced years, I am way too old for musical prejudices, but I still experience knee-jerk reactions when confronted by the unknown, “Indie folk rock? No frickin’ way, man!”... Read more...
The Night Sergio Mendes Came to Town
The Night Sergio Mendes Came to Town
It’s not often that internationally known artists make it to the relatively small town (population about 11,000) in which I live, but the folks who run our local 1930s-era movie... Read more...
Play it Again, Steinway: the Spirio Player Piano
Play it Again, Steinway: the Spirio Player Piano
A few months back, I was hanging out with Ed Gilmore at Gilmore’s Sound Advice auditioning the Steinway Lyngdorf Model D, a digital all-in-one system with powered speakers and a central processor to accommodate... Read more...
Audio Art in NYC: Devon Turnbull’s Listening Exhibition
Audio Art in NYC: Devon Turnbull’s Listening Exhibition
While browsing around Steve Guttenberg’s The Audiophiliac channel on YouTube, I came across several videos featuring Devon Turnbull, a multi-talented audio engineer and former clothing and graphic designer and graffiti artist, who... Read more...
Summer Concerts: Who to See and Where?
Summer Concerts: Who to See and Where?
After an almost two-year continuous drought, it’s quite invigorating to see live music back with a vengeance. Certainly, live streaming was helpful in filling the void, but there’s a different... Read more...
The History of A&M Records, Part Four: R&B and Funk!
The History of A&M Records, Part Four: R&B and Funk!
A&M Records had success with rock, pop and easy listening music – see my previous articles in this series in Issue 160, Issue 161 and Issue 162. There was another facet the successful independent... Read more...
Spending Time With the Grado RS1x Headphones
Spending Time With the Grado RS1x Headphones
I’m willing to bet that most of us with big speakers, bulky amps, and dedicated listening rooms rarely use headphones. I’m not talking about the sweaty loud ones you use... Read more...
The SweetVinyl SugarCube SC-1 Plus, Part Two
The SweetVinyl SugarCube SC-1 Plus, Part Two
I have had the SweetVinyl SugarCube SC-1 Plus going on three months now.  In my last article about the SC-1 Plus (Issue 154), I explained the SugarCube’s functions, and gave my initial impressions of how... Read more...
"Time," Part Two
"Time," Part Two
As if from The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd… Spinning away the CDs that make up a bright dayHall and Oates play in the hours that make up the... Read more...
The Audiophile’s Brain (Or, Why We Do This)
The Audiophile’s Brain (Or, Why We Do This)
Most audiophiles, at one point or another, encounter a skeptic – someone who righteously opines that what we do in this hobby (like spending more on high-end gear than on... Read more...
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