Quibbles and Bits

    Quibbles and BitsIssue 65

    If No One Ever Reads This Column…

    …did I actually write it? There is a catchy phrase,…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 74

    Beethoven’s Last Christmas

    In 1825 and 1826, Ludwig van Beethoven was nearing the…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 75

    The Volume Of A Pizza

    Numbers, and the mathematics that describe them, can help you…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 73

    Information

    6: “What do you want?” 2: “Information.” 6: “You won’t…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 72

    40 Most Beautiful Arias

    I wouldn’t normally give a “Rack Filler” CD a moment’s…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 70

    Oh, I Bumped Into Elton John Today…

    Actually, it was in 2002, but that’s okay. I was…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 71

    The Lion and Albert

    From the 1920’s through the 1950’s, one of the most…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 69

    Lost Boys

    John MacCormick My family moved to the city of Leicester,…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 68

    John Corigliano: Symphony No. 1

    In the world of classical music, you typically need to…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 67

    Building Teams

    I spent the latter half of my career as an…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 66

    “Are you SURE you want to do this?”

    In Copper issues 60 and 61, I interviewed Princeton University…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 76

    Audiophile Haiku

    A haiku is a traditional Japanese form of poetry, although…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 64

    Goodnight, Irene

    I do enjoy a Single Malt scotch … the good…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 63

    Command and Control

    I have just read what is without hesitation the most…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 62

    Me and Kenny Dalglish

    I was born in Glasgow, Scotland.  At age 10 my…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 61

    Dispersion

    “Knowledge increases by diffusion, and grows by dispersion” – Daniel…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 60

    Musicians, Restauranteurs, Plumbers

    You read a lot of brouhaha within the audio community…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 59

    Au Revoir, Dutoit

    About ten years ago I shared an airplane ride with…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 56

    Hi-Fi Shows

    I was tasked by Editor Leebs to cover my local…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 58

    De Vriend’s Beethoven Cycle

    I wrote in the last issue of Copper about how…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 57

    Roll Over, Beethoven

    If you were a professional orchestra conductor – or even…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 55

    Much Ado About Nothing

    Sometimes the dumbest questions can be the toughest ones to…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 87

    Everest

    This year, so far at least, eleven people have died…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 138

    DSD – Is It PCM, Or Isn’t It?

    A few weeks back, a prominent person in the audio…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 100

    Contemplating Eternity

    When I first started writing for Copper, my mandate was…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 96

    A Survey of Recordings of Shostakovich Symphony No. 4

    Back in Copper #39 I wrote a piece on the unsung…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 95

    Going to Hong Kong

    British Land Forces, Hong Kong 29th August, 1949 Hello Jock,…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 94

    Ancestry

    A while back, I started messing about researching into my…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 92

    The Sound Of Music

    The entirety of the field of Philosophy arises from two…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 91

    Sounds Good to Me

    What attributes should an item of equipment in a sound…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 90

    30 Years

    I am an ex-Pat Brit, living in Canada for the…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 89

    To Sleep. Perchance to Dream.

    What do we do, as a society, when we are…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 88

    20th Century Classical Music – the “Navel Gazing” Era?

    In the world of Classical Music, the end of the…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 54

    That Whose Name May Not Be Spoken

    In every corner of life there are guilty secrets, ancient…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 86

    Does Science Have to Make Sense?

    The origins of science, and the scientific method, have to…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 85

    A Murder of Symmetry

    Ronnie McGill received a note, mysteriously signed “Michael Schumacher”, which…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 84

    21st Century Schizoid LP

    It was all the way back in the 1980’s that…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 83

    Lasers

    Ever wondered how lasers work?…Wondered what it is that gives…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 82

    Great Opera

    Here’s what I wrote back in Copper 72: “Many people…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 81

    Monty Python’s 3rd Symphony

    “He’s done something no other composer has attempted. He’s placed…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 80

    The Mikado

    Our great Mikado, virtuous man, when he to rule our…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 79

    Audiophile Science

    There is one consistent misconception that non-scientists have about science,…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 78

    Quantum Theory

    Quantum Theory troubles many people, even some of those who…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 77

    The Life of Brian

    Havergal Brian was one of the most prolific English composers…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 21

    A Case of the Jitters

    Let’s take our good old standby, the Red Book standard…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 32

    Jack the Dripper

    Most aspects of modern life at the personal level tend…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 31

    Doh! A Deer!

    When I was a kid, growing up in a rough…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 30

    The Final Frontier

    Consider for a moment the Fourier Transform, which I discussed…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 29

    Did Fred Flintstone Have Digital Audio?

    I am listening to one of the earliest high-resolution digital…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 28

    The Absolute Sound

    Let me describe something I was very fortunate to be…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 27

    Preposterous Nonsense!

    Back in Issue 22, in response to my column “Purer,…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 25

    A Brief History of Life, The Universe, and Everything

    Episode IX – Apocalypse Now? It is my contention that…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 24

    Taking FLAC

    You hear and read a lot of strange stuff in…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 23

    Cardinal Sinc

    PCM encodes audio as a set of samples, each representing…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 22

    Purer, More Perfect Sound

    I have spent a lot of time focusing on the…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 33

    Sample Rate Conversion

    Question:  How does sample rate conversion work?  I get asked…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 19

    To Be or Not To Be Lossless

    What does “lossless” mean in audio terminology?  It seems like…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 20

    Fifty Years After

    Back in 2000, Dr. Michael Unser of the Swiss Federal…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 18

    Transformation

    What is the biggest, most fundamental difference between Mathematics and…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 17

    Sigma–Delta Modulators – Part III

    At this point I promised to conclude my mini-series on…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 16

    Sigma Delta Modulators Part II

    In my last column, I wrote about how a SDM…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 15

    Sigma–Delta Modulators – Part I

    I have mentioned Sigma–Delta Modulators (SDMs) in this column before.…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 14

    The Pepsi Challenge

    With the rise of computer-based high-end audio playback, a very…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 1

    The Digital Revolution

    Digital Audio has revolutionized music playback. It was originally conceived…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 13

    Conversion Conversation

    Today’s DACs, with a few very rare (and expensive) exceptions,…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 11

    My Kingdom for a DAC

    One of the nice things about digital audio is that…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 43

    Of Mirrors, and Combs

    Mirror, mirror, on the wall… Here’s a quick challenge for…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 53

    Cross-country Skiing

    I expect all of you will be well familiar with…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 52

    Bates—Mason, Not Norman

    I have recently been introduced to the American composer Mason…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 51

    Loudness

    It was Lee Atwater, a controversial campaign strategist for Bush…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 49

    Brainz the Size of a Planet, Part 3

    I have been describing the free-access crowd-sourced music metadata database…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 48

    Brainz The Size of a Planet, Part 2

    In the last edition of Copper, I introduced MusicBrainz, a…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 47

    Brainz The Size of a Planet, Part 1

    There is a seismic shift underway in the manner by…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 46

    Close Your Eyes

    All too often, as audiophiles, we are torn between listening…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 45

    Like a Circle in a Spiral

    On a piano keyboard, most of us know that all…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 50

    “The Japanese Beethoven”

    Modern popular music differs most significantly from classical music in…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 44

    Lord of the Ring

    Sir Georg Solti was one of the preeminent conductors of…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 12

    Cocktail Party

    You will all know the old chestnut where, if you…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 42

    Value For Money?

    Upgrading your Hi-Fi equipment can be both deeply satisfying, and…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 41

    What Is a Symphony?

    Most of you who do not make a habit of…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 40

    Two’s a Compliment

    [The article deals with two’s complement, but the title was…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 39

    Whack-a-Mole

    As 1936 dawned in Soviet Russia, Joseph Stalin had already…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 38

    Tim’s Vermeer

    Not long ago, I watched a documentary on Netflix from…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 37

    Happiness is a Warm Bun

    At least it can be, when that bun is freshly…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 36

    The Thrill of the Chase

    I had a friend named Steve (not his real name).…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 34

    Not Patently Obvious

    And now for something completely different – a brief detour…
    Quibbles and BitsIssue 35

    Why Moore’s Law Should Blow Your Mind

    Most of you will be familiar with Moore’s Law, formulated…
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