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Issue 11
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Welcome to Copper #11! Wherever you are, we hope it’s…
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Issue 1
Birth Of A Child
The birth of a child is always a cause for…
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Issue 13
Welcome to the lucky thirteenth edition of Copper!
As is probably clear by now, we’ve decided to shake…
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Issue 14
…almost World Series
As we draw nearer to the time of the World…
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Issue 15
Future And Past
Welcome to Copper # 15! Our contest in issue #13…
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Issue 16
Back By Popular Demand
Welcome to Copper #16! We’re excited by our recent additions.…
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Issue 17
More, and Better
As we approach the annual Rocky Mountain Audio Fest, our…
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Issue 18
Welcome Back, My Friends…
Anyone who has been around rock music at all knows…
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Issue 19
Too Mean To Die
Welcome to Copper #19! Believe me, no one is more…
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Issue 20
…and the Hits Just Keep On Comin’…
Welcome to Copper #20! I think this is a particularly…
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Issue 21
Where Did the Year Go?
Welcome to Copper # 21! It’s hard to believe that 2016…
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Issue 48
Happy Holidays!
Welcome to Copper #74, the second of three December issues, and one…
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Issue 23
Good Riddance, 2016!
Happy New Year, and welcome to Copper #23, and 2017!…
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Issue 24
A New Year’s Resolution
Happy New Year to all, and hope my colleagues are…
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Issue 25
The More the Merrier
Neither rain nor snow nor CES crud nor car crashes stays…
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Issue 26
So Much for Punxsutawney Phil!
I would never overtly diss a legendary Groundhog, but six…
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Issue 27
Happy Birthday to Us!
It honestly, really, truly came as a shock to me…
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Issue 28
Second Verse, Same as the First
The first year of Copper saw the mag start from…
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Issue 29
…Out Like a Lamb?
The bizarre year proceeds apace as here in Boulder, we’ve…
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Issue 43
It’s Showtime!
Welcome to Copper #93! By the time you read this, the…
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Issue 31
Beyond the Listening Room
By the time you read this, Axpona will be over.…
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Issue 32
It’s a Big, Big World
Welcome to Copper #32! If you’re a reader of fine…
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Issue 33
On the Road Again….
As you read this, I’ll have just returned from the…
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Issue 34
Wiser? Or Just Older?
Welcome to the 34th issue of Copper! As I approach…
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Issue 35
Retro-Introspection?
Welcome to Copper #35! Lately, I’ve been blathering a lot…
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Issue 36
Across the Chronographic Divide
Welcome to Copper #36! I recently crossed the Continental Divide,…
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Issue 37
…But It’s a DRY Heat….
Welcome to Copper #37! As temperatures topped triple digits in…
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Issue 38
Changes
Welcome to Copper #38! Just as there are continual changes…
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Issue 39
Summer’s End
Welcome to Copper #39! For many of us, it’s almost…
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Issue 40
After the Eclipse
Welcome to Copper #40! The old expression “a miss is…
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Issue 41
Fire and Rain
Welcome to Copper #41! The title isn’t to announce a James Taylor…
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Issue 42
Woodsmoke and Oranges
Welcome to Copper #42! An all-too-brief vacation in the smoky Pacific Northwest…
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Issue 44
Trick or Treat!
Welcome to Copper #44! I hope you were able to…
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Issue 45
Fall Has Fallen….
…and it can’t get up! Welcome to Copper #45! The year ticks…
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Issue 46
Thanks!
Welcome to Copper #46! For music lovers, it is the…
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Issue 47
December??
Welcome to Copper #47! I’m alarmed at how rapidly 2017…
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Issue 49
Happy New Year!
Welcome to Copper #75, and welcome to 2019! It truly is difficult…
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Issue 50
We’re Golden!
Welcome to Copper #50! It’s hard to believe we’ve reached…
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Issue 51
Area 51
Welcome to Copper #51! We’ve passed New Year’s, we’ve passed CES, and…
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Issue 52
So Many Holidays!
…and yet, I have to work on Lincoln’s Birthday, Valentine’s…
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Issue 53
Happy Anniversary to Us!
Welcome to Copper #53! Our very first issue appeared on…
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Issue 54
Happy St. Pat’s!
Welcome to Copper #54! Beannachtai Na Feile Padraig Oraibh! —which is allegedly,…
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Issue 55
Happy Passover/Easter/April Fools’ Day!
Welcome to Copper #55! It’s a little odd when holidays…
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Issue 56
See You in Chicago?
Welcome to Copper #56! With the recent Montréal Audio Fest,…
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Issue 57
The Winter of Our Disc Content
Welcome to Copper #57! One last gasp of winter’s wrath in Chicago,…
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Issue 58
May Day, May Day, May Day!
Welcome to Copper #58! Every May I wonder how the phrase “May…
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Issue 59
Munich and Everything After
Welcome to Copper #59! Blame any errors in this issue on jet…
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Issue 60
Summer, Already?
Welcome to Copper #60! Ye Olde Editor may still be…
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Issue 61
Numerologist’s Delight
Welcome to Copper #61! Someone, somewhere will undoubtedly be able to extract…
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Issue 62
The Endless Summer (Cold)
Welcome to Copper #62! My daughter Emily believes that men…
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Issue 63
High Heat
Welcome to Copper #63! This issue’s menu offers summer reading ranging…
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Issue 64
On the Road Again
Welcome to Copper #87! Family business had me on a plane…
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Issue 65
August Heat
Welcome to Copper #91! Having left the relatively-balmy temps of the…
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Issue 66
Moving On
Welcome to Copper #66! Summer ends, fall begins, change abounds.…
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Issue 67
Every New Beginning
Welcome to Copper #67! It may be my Irish heritage…
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Issue 68
Falling Into Showtime
Welcome to Copper #68! By the time you read this, the first…
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Issue 69
Autumn
Welcome to Copper #69! The aspens are starting to turn yellow here…
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Issue 70
Snow Comes; Snow Goes
Welcome to Copper #70! The Rocky Mountain Audio Fest took place October 5-7,…
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Issue 71
Vote!
Welcome to Copper #71! The leaves have mostly passed peak color here…
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Issue 72
It’s Summer Somewhere
Welcome to Copper #72! It’s a cliche’ that travel expands the mind,…
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Issue 73
Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
Welcome to Copper #73! While the saying, “days drag, years fly by”…
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Issue 76
Without CES, Does January Exist?
Welcome to Copper #76! —here we are, halfway through January already, and…
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Issue 77
Blood Wolf WHAT?
Welcome to Copper #77! I hope you had a better view of…
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Issue 79
From -6 to 86 and Back Again
Welcome to Copper #79! This issue features my walkaround of the first-ever Florida…
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Issue 80
Leather? Really?
Welcome to Copper #80, our Third Anniversary issue! Some investigations require more…
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Issue 81
Welcome to Spring?
Welcome to Copper #81! This is being written on the first day…
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Issue 82
It Might As Well Be Spring
Welcome to Copper #82! I’ve never been good with ambivalence.…
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Issue 83
Every Day is Earth Day?
Welcome to Copper #83! I rarely react to PR pronouncements with…
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Issue 84
A Long Time Ago….
Welcome to Copper #84! Being the picayune sort, it annoys me…
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Issue 85
Another Day, Another Plane
Welcome to Copper #85! It seems like only yesterday when I…
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Issue 86
June Means No More Snow—Right?
Welcome to Copper #86! A week or so ago, here in…
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Issue 88
Half a Year, Half a Year, Half a Year Gone
Welcome to Copper #88! The day this magazine goes live, July…
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Issue 89
All Fingers on Deck
Welcome to Copper #89! I hope you emerged from the 4th…
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Issue 90
Happy Landings!
Welcome to Copper #90! By the time you read these, the…
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Issue 92
See You in September
Welcome to Copper #92! With the last gasp of summer comes…
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Issue 94
In the Air Tonight
Welcome to Copper #94! As this issue goes live, I’ll have…
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Issue 95
10-4, Good Neighbor
Welcome to Copper #95! This is being written on October 4th—or…
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Issue 96
96 Tears
Welcome to Copper #96! One thousand, three hundred and twenty-three days…
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Issue 97
The Editors, They are a changin’
I’m thrilled and honored to be named the new editor…
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Issue 98
Better Living Through Music!
First of all, I want to give a huge thank…
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Issue 99
Music Appreciation
We’re in the midst of the holiday season, a time…
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Issue 100
One Hundred Issues and Counting!
This holiday season marks a major milestone for the magazine…
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Issue 101
Happy Musical New Year!
Numbers have been on my mind lately: 97, 98, 99,…
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Issue 102
“I Got a Fever…”
It’s 102 – I got a fever and the only…
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Issue 103
Audio Diversity
I’ve been thinking about this lately and seeing Paul McGowan’s…
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Issue 104
Expanding Horizons
Copper has been moving to increase its audio-related articles. We…
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Issue 105
Building Community
(With a tip of the hat to the Hank Stone…
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Issue 106
Not Fade Away
This issue’s cover: conductor Leopold Stokowski (1882 – 1977). One…
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Issue 107
All Together Separately
Cover: violinist Jascha Heifetz (1901 – 1987). Many consider him…
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Issue 108
Write On
This issue’s cover: of course, the Beatles in their iconic…
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Issue 109
Balancing Act
This issue’s cover: Judy Garland (1922 – 1969). One of…
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Issue 110
Changing Perspectives
This issue’s cover: Amy Winehouse (1983 – 2011) and Tony…
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Issue 111
Imaginations Real
(With a tip of the hat to Dave Davies for…
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Issue 112
Tiptoe Through the Tweeters
This Issue’s Cover: Bob Dylan (born 1941). The times they…
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Issue 113
Peonies en Regalia
This issue’s cover: Joni Mitchell (1943 –). Riding on the…
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Issue 114
They’re Back!
We are thrilled to announce the return of Patti, Louie…
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Issue 115
You Can’t Think of Everything
Sometimes even the most perceptive of us can have a…
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Issue 116
Only Two More Days Till Tomorrow
“Baby, there’s only two more days till tomorrow.” That’s from…
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Issue 117
Ridin’ the Storm Out
This was the hardest issue I’ve ever had to put…
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Issue 118
I Leave My Fortune
I recently got a fortune cookie that said, “Music melts…
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Issue 119
Take 22
This is my 22nd issue of editing Copper. 22 issues…
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Issue 120
Name That Column Contest!
PS Audio recently launched its record label, Octave Records. (Read…
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Issue 121
A Question of Time
Do you sometimes feel like we’re living in an alternate…
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Issue 122
Light Up the Sky
The music world has lost an icon with the passing…
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Issue 123
Learning to Fly
Every day is an opportunity to learn something. Even when…
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Issue 124
Octave Pitch and Other Notes
We have a new president and vice president-elect. I and…
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Issue 125
Anniversaries and Appreciations
Thanksgiving has come and gone in the US (and Brazil…
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Issue 126
Hope for the Holidays
The term “Happy Holidaze” has become a cliché, the progenitor…
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Issue 127
Hoping All the Verses Rhyme
Goodbye 2020 and here’s to a better 2021. Anything else…
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Issue 128
Things Change With Time
Things change with time, as my very close friend likes…
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Issue 129
Keep Your Eye on the Prize
It’s hard to believe – or maybe not – that…
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Issue 130
Clickbait-Free Zone
Clickbait has become pervasive. It’s not hard to see why,…
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Issue 131
Is There a Thinking Cap?
I wonder if artificial intelligence is the natural result of…
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Issue 132
Headspace
You can only put so much of an input signal…
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Issue 133
Oh, Look!
Copper has a new look! So does the rest of…
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Issue 134
Only Two More Days Till Tomorrow
With Copper’s new format, long “Opening Salvo” intros take up…
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Issue 135
Moonlight Feels Right
Found inside a fortune cookie: “Because of your melodic nature,…
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Issue 136
With Age Comes Wisdom
I was hanging at the assisted living facility and an…
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Issue 137
Accountability
When you’ve been paying your dues, after a while you…
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Issue 138
Glitch Transitions
Since moving to the new Copper platform, there have been…
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Issue 139
Copy That
Copper’s writers and I strive for excellence, and work hard…
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Issue 140
Platinum Award
We’re proud to announce that Copper writer Alón Sagee, chief…
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Issue 141
We Remember Art
I recently had the honor of attending an event in…
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Issue 142
Dust
Is there a reader among us who doesn’t dig ZZ…
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Issue 143
Should You Accept Cookies?
One of the features readers like Randy Vogel and others…
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Issue 144
Magic and Loss
I and so many of us are saddened by the…
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Issue 145
Sunset Over the Rocky Mountains
Recently we received an e-mail stating that “Rocky Mountain Audio…
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Issue 146
The Write Thing
“Writers write.” – Dave Kindred. “Nuff said.” – Stan Lee.…
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Issue 147
Do It Now!
Readers may know I’m a fan of weird fortune cookie…
Opening Salvo
Issue 148
Dreamtime
“A dream goes on forever.” – Todd Rundgren I’ve been…
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Issue 149
Ripples in Time
“Sail away, away/Ripples never come back.” – Genesis, “Ripples” Remember…
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Issue 150
Milestones
This is the 150th issue of Copper! We are thrilled…
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Issue 151
Holiday Wishes
Happy holidays, everyone. We at Copper wish all of you…
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Issue 152
To a Brighter Future
All of us at Copper once again wish all of…
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Issue 153
Make It Easy on Yourself
Happy New Year! I have a perhaps selfish New Year’s…
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Issue 154
Audio to the Max
The audio world has lost another legend with the passing…
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Issue 155
Never to be Forgotten
It is with great sadness that we report the loss…
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Issue 156
Unreal Reality
The English rock band Everything Everything announced that their upcoming…
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Issue 157
Getting a Read
Sometimes I forget that people actually read this magazine. Just…
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Issue 158
Springtime Solace
For me, music always has been, is, and will be,…
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Issue 159
Time Passages
It is with deep sadness that we report the passing…
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Issue 160
Two is Better Than One
According to a recent article in The Hearing Review, acoustics…
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Issue 161
On With the Show
AXPONA, Audio Expo North America, is happening as you are…
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Issue 162
Showgazing
As you might have seen or heard, AXPONA 2022, Audio…
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Issue 163
We All Belong…
Thanks, mom. For everything. “La, la la la, la la…
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Issue 164
The Space Between the Notes
Sometimes, music is good. Other times, silence is good. It…
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Issue 165
Here Comes the Sun
As a bandmate likes to say, a day without the…
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Issue 166
Seeking Enlightenment
I’ve noted before that I’m a connoisseur of silly fortune…
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