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The Audio Cynic
Issue 63
In Search of Meaning, Where There Is None
First off, don’t look at the title and image above…
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Issue 73
Immaterial Science
Back in Copper #66, I wrote a Cynic column entitled…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 72
Music in the Air
Somewhere over Brazil, 11/10/18: When we write about listening to…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 71
Liminal Messages
I rarely notice ads, other than to be irritated by…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 70
Glossolalia
If you don’t know the meaning of the babbling brook…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 69
Humility and Hubris
As a kid in Minnesota during the early to mid-’60s,…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 68
When Sharing Isn’t Caring
It is probably evident at this stage of our relationship—and…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 67
Welcome to the Machine
Pop music has always had machines: groups of people who…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 66
Nothing New Under the Sun?
Having entered my allegedly-golden years, I have little tolerance for…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 65
What’s In the Box?
There is no mystery in the world today. –That’s not…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 64
“It’s All About the Music”
When I encounter an audiophile or a show-exhibitor with a…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 74
All I Want For Christmas…
…is Peace. And no, I don’t even mean the large-scale,…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 62
Diminishing Returns (Or: The Clock Radio Dilemma)
While at the Munich High End Show last month, I…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 60
David Wilson: RIP
The first 60 issues of Copper have featured 6 Audio…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 59
“The Price is the Product”
Way back in 1999, the late Brian Cheney of VMPS…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 58
A Tale of Two Shows
It was the best of times… Scrap that. I’ve written…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 61
Anti-social Media
Despite appearances—and perhaps despite my self-description as a cynic—I try…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 57
Made By Hand
As a late Boomer (as well as a late bloomer)…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 56
Ergonomics and Other Gooey Messes
In my teen years, my reading was wide-ranging and varied,…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 55
How Do You Know When To Quit?
No, don’t worry—I’m not planning on retiring any time soon.…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 54
This… Is Not That
There’s a term that both guides and haunts any human…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 52
What the Hell is Going On?
Back in my school-days, I found the subject of history…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 84
Is There a Right Size?
Second-guessing is at the heart of online forum behavior, and…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 96
So Long to the Cynic
Over the last 95 issues of Copper, it’s been mentioned…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 95
Getting to the Bottom of Things
I recently had the opportunity to spend an afternoon listening…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 94
Inevitability
I recently had an interesting conversation with a Very Famous…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 92
Back to Basics
I had a minor-league epiphany, courtesy of Waylon Jennings and…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 91
The Long Goodbye
Over the last few years of writing this column, I’ve…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 89
Been Down So Long, It Seems Like Up To Me
As a parent, I’m used to my references being met…
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Issue 88
Is Audio Seasonal?
I’ve been a salesman or worked with salespeople most of…
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Issue 87
Objective/Subjective: Here We Go Again
“Seeing as ‘objective review’ is an oxymoron, ‘subjective review’ is…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 86
The Madness of Crowds, the Wisdom of T-shirts
It has probably become evident after 85 (!!) of these…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 85
Consolidation
Is there such a thing as economy of scale? If…
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Issue 51
In the Land of the Surreal, Is Realism Relevant?
I despise dogma—especially when it comes from me. So when…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 83
Schrödinger’s Show
To an exhibitor at an audio show, the show simultaneously…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 82
A Familiar Story
This story has nothing to do with audio. It does,…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 81
Credit? What’s Next—Money??
Last issue’s Audio Cynic discussed the ongoing battle to gain…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 80
Who Are the Real Cynics?
In the three years I’ve written this column, there have…
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Issue 79
Did the Grammys Ever Matter?
Somewhere in the hazy past, I wrote that nostalgia ain’t…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 78
Music is the Space Between the Notes
Depending upon whom you believe, that statement was made by…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 77
Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup
There are days for haute cuisine, hipster toy food, meals…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 76
No CES For You!
Yes, it’s that time again. Time for Leebs’ annual rant…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 75
2018 Was Really Something
Over more decades in audio than I care to dwell…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 20
Black Friday
I wondered when the term “Black Friday” came to mean…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 30
Bad Sound
…is in the ears of the beholder. I chose the…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 29
Who’s Minding the Store?
Much has been made of the decline in number of…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 28
Murders and Acquisitions
As a callow child waaay back in the early ’60’s,…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 27
Persistence of Memory
Uncle Jim was a chemist who worked for General Mills…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 26
The IoT is Not For Me
I’ve worked in tech fields most of my life: high-performance…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 25
Leaving Las Vegas
Here’s Leebens’ Law of Life: Things Change. Period. THAT’S IT. You…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 23
Ken Furst: RIP
It’s no secret that 2016 sucked. I’ve already written about…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 24
Creation and Recreation
After writing this column for issue #22, which pondered why…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 22
Why Do We Do What We Do?
Aside from the fact that it sounds like the chorus…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 21
“Snakebit”
A few decades ago I went through the rough patch…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 31
Whatever Happened to Tone?
During the way-too-many years that I’ve been involved with audio,…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 19
Where Will We Go?
Gentrification. Some view it as imperialism incarnate, a way for…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 18
RMAF: Lucky 13
I promise to step away from the topic of audio…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 17
RMAF Past, RMAF Present, RMAF Yet to Come
In years past I looked forward to RMAF as an…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 16
That’s Show Biz!
In Copper #7, I wrote about the passing of Richard…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 15
Wes Phillips: RIP
This has been a terrible year for musicians— we all…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 14
It’s the (Crappy) Music, Stupid
As may be obvious after 13 of these columns, I…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 13
Letting Facts Get in the Way of a Good Story
If the internet is good for nothing else, it’s great…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 1
I am So Over CES
I remember the first time I was called a cynic.…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 11
It’s No Contest
The long-running television show American Idol was often accused of…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 40
Intelligence Inside
Way back in Copper #26 I wrote “The IoT is…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 49
What Will Be New, in the New Year?
It’s been 141 years since Bell’s first call over the…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 48
An Embarrassment of Riches
Leave it to an indy hipster musician with several different…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 48
Charley Hansen: RIP
Ayre Acoustics posted the following on the company Facebook page…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 47
Arnie Nudell: RIP
At the very beginning of 2017, I wrote about the…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 46
Who Sampled Whom?
Back in Copper #3, I asked the question, “When is…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 45
Geezerpalooza
Back at the dawn of the grunge era in 1991,…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 44
Dangerous Work
If 2016 was Snakebit, in terms of the number of…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 43
Plus Ça Change….
The full expression is of course, plus ça change, plus c’est…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 41
Show on Show on Show
The title is of course an allusion to “In the…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 42
Immersion
You’ve probably already figured this out, but I am innately…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 12
Is It Worth It To You?
During election season, we hear a lot of talk about…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 39
Everything Matters; Nothing Matters
Audio is art and science. It is art. It is…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 38
Is It Worth It?
I want to consider a topic seriously, minus my usual…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 37
Multiple Personality Disorder
A few years ago I spotted a bizarre trend in…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 36
They Have to Hear It to Want It
Following last issue’s column on audio evangelism, I’ve spent a…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 35
Believing Our Ears
There are times when I regret having named this column…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 34
Shhhh….
What was that movie— where if you fell asleep, you…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 53
Are We Having Fun Yet?
A newbie wandering onto almost any audio website or forum…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 33
Why Do We Even CARE??
After a zillion years in this business, you’d think I’d…
The Audio Cynic
Issue 32
Cynically Yours
I won’t beat around the bush: putting Copper together is…
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