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Issue 62
Electric City
So: what does a professional audio nerd do on a…
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Issue 73
50 Ways to Read a Record Part 8
In earlier installments of this series, we’ve focused upon the…
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Issue 72
50 Ways to Read a Record Part 7
We’ve looked at a variety of methods of making music—or…
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Issue 71
50 Ways to Read a Record Part 6
As we know from old issues of Popular Science and…
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Issue 70
50 Ways to Read a Record Part 5
In our last installment, we saw the beginning of the…
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Issue 68
50 Ways to Read a Record Part 4
In our last installment, we looked at the range of…
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Issue 67
50 Ways to Read a Record Part 3
It’s difficult to explain the basics of a highly-technical process…
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Issue 66
50 Ways to Read a Record Part 2
In his last column, Jay Jay French mentioned the optical…
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Issue 65
50 Ways to Read a Record Part 1
I’ve spent half a century immersing myself in the history…
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Issue 64
What Will Be “Vintage” in 2068?
As I’ve discussed/ranted many times in this column, to me,…
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Issue 63
“New Old”?
The first time I heard the word “oxymoron,” I thought…
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Issue 74
50 Ways to Read a Record Part 9
In Copper #73 we discussed an interesting but purely theoretical …
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Issue 61
What’s a Speaker? And What’s a Driver?
You know how annoying it is when you’re surrounded by…
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Issue 60
The More Things Change….
Oh, you think you’re so smart, Mr. 21st Century Hi-Tech…
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Issue 59
Nagra
The history of Nagra begins, as is often the case…
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Issue 58
Hadley Labs
At Axpona a few weeks ago, friend and mentor Richard…
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Issue 57
More Stuff About Old Stuff
Within the span of a couple weeks, I went from…
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Issue 55
Vintage Voltage: A Photo Feature
Researching and writing theoretical and historical pieces is a lot…
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Issue 56
What’s Past Is Prologue
The older I get—and at this point, I’m as old…
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Issue 54
Speakers Are Exhausting
“For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.”…
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Issue 53
A Serious Hobbyist
In Copper #52 we began poring through a collection of…
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Issue 87
Empire, Part 3
[Previous installments on Empire were in Copper #84 and #86—Ed.]…
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Issue 96
Drive, He Said Part 5
In Part 4 of this series, the last turntable mentioned was…
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Issue 95
Drive, He Said Part 4
In previous installments of Vintage Whine, we’ve looked at belt-drive…
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Issue 94
Drive, He Said Part 3
Part 1 of this series in Copper #92 covered idler-drive…
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Issue 93
Drive, He Said Part 2
In Part 1, Copper #92, we looked at idler-wheel turntable mechanisms.…
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Issue 92
Drive, He Said Part 1
Vintage Whine has previously looked at the micro-mechanics of record…
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Issue 91
Paper
It’s everywhere. We take it for granted, blow our noses…
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Issue 89
Fairchild, Part 5
We’ve spent a fair amount of time and pixels on…
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Issue 90
Quintessence
Sometimes you encounter stories where it turns out that the…
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Issue 88
The Fire
I’m going to deviate from the standard Vintage Whine topics…
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Issue 52
The Mysterious Binder
I wrote about ephemera back in Copper #37. In that…
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Issue 86
Empire, Part 2
Our first installment on Empire mentioned the beginnings of the…
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Issue 84
Empire, Part 1
The primary reason I began writing these articles (and a…
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Issue 82
Fairchild: Sidebar
As I indicated in my first installment on Fairchild, back…
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Issue 80
Vintage, Vintage Whine
There was a time in my life, not so long…
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Issue 79
New Old Stock
Newbies to the audio world encounter a lot of puzzling…
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Issue 78
Fairchild, Part 4
The last three Vintage Whine columns have looked at the…
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Issue 77
Fairchild, Part 3
As I’ve indicated in the previous installments of Vintage Whine…
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Issue 76
Fairchild, Part 2
In Copper #75, we began the story of the remarkable…
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Issue 75
Fairchild, Part 1
I truly enjoy the research involved in these pieces, refreshing…
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Issue 20
Weathers
There are some brands whose influence extends far beyond their…
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Issue 30
Kits!
It’s often said that we don’t build anything in America…
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Issue 29
The Old Ways
There is a certain pleasure to be found in driving…
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Issue 28
Spica, Part 3
[We started our look back at speaker manufacturer Spica in…
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Issue 27
Spica, Part 2
In the last issue of Copper we briefly looked at loudspeaker…
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Issue 26
Spica
There are some brands that linger in the memory with…
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Issue 25
Quads: 60 Years Young
For at least as long as I’ve been aware of…
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Issue 24
The Original QUAD ESL
The first question that will probably come to mind is,…
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Issue 23
Everything You Ever Wanted
In last issue’s Vintage Whine I ran through my personal list…
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Issue 22
All I Want For….
If you could ask for one piece of vintage gear…
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Issue 21
Weathers, Part 2
In the last issue , we discussed the initial appearance…
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Issue 31
The Mother Of All Speakers (MOAS)
I had begun writing a piece about the history of…
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Issue 19
Mass, Massive, Massless
I’m fascinated by materials, which I ascribe to a childhood…
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Issue 18
The Once and Future Tweeter
Back in the day, I had many an asthma attack…
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Issue 17
VPI: 38 Years and Counting
Harry Pearson, founder of The Absolute Sound, contributed to the…
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Issue 16
Versa Dynamics
Every now and then a new company appears in the…
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Issue 15
Where Are They Now?
For anyone who has been around audio for any length…
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Issue 14
Are We Keeping Up? (With Inflation)
This issue we’re going to take a slight detour from…
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Issue 13
Stan White: An Overlooked Visionary/Part 2
A fundamental principle of scientific enquiry was stated most famously…
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Issue 1
What Is Vintage?
What’s wine got to do with us? As is often…
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Issue 11
Jensen: The Man, the Company, Conclusion
In Parts 1 and 2 we discussed Peter Jensen’s journey…
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Issue 41
Bang & Olufsen, Part 2
Continuing from Part 1 , we’ll look at more legacy Bang…
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Issue 51
15,000 Pages!
I started reading when I was 3. I say that…
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Issue 50
Equal Time
In Copper #48 I began the perusal of a hefty…
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Issue 49
Editor’s Choice
No, not this Editor. Continuing from my last column, inspired…
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Issue 47
Fractured
While sight-seeing around the uncommonly-empty campus of the University of…
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Issue 46
Is Older Always Better?
My daughter Emily has a habit of being brutally frank,…
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Issue 45
Materials Science
I’ve danced around this subject before, with my discussions of…
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Issue 44
Stereo at Sixty
We’ve heard a lot about anniversaries in 2017, with it…
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Issue 43
Tone Control (or lack of it)
I’ve previously mourned the death of tone in modern audio…
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Issue 42
Wood
Back in Copper #31, I wrote about the subject of…
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Issue 12
Stan White: Visionary? Or…?
This column is different from previous installments of Vintage Whine,…
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Issue 40
Bang & Olufsen, Part 1
In 2013 I was fortunate to have a consulting gig…
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Issue 39
Nostalgia Ain’t What It Used to Be
I’ve previously mentioned audio icon Henry Kloss’ time at AR…
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Issue 38
Torture
Audiophiles are experts at self-torture: “Is the VTA just a…
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Issue 37
Ephemera
Back in the ’70’s, Ron Gilbrech, then a salesman at…
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Issue 36
Horns, Part 5
In response to last issue’s installment, a reader quite accurately…
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Issue 35
Horns, Part 4
We wrapped up our last installment with the end of World…
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Issue 34
Horns, Part 3
In our last issue we concluded with a mention of…
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Issue 33
Horns, Part 2
In our last issue we looked at the historical and…
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Issue 32
Horns!
If there’s a more contentious topic in audio than that…
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