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Issue 103

Issue 103Opening Salvo

I’ve been thinking about this lately and seeing Paul McGowan’s recent related post on the subject made it hit home: no two audio systems are alike. Think about all the source components,...

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Some Assembly Required

Issue 103AUDIO ANTHROPOLOGY

In 1962 Allied Radio and Masonite partnered to offer this “hi-fi wall” kit. Audio components not included! From Radio-TV Experimenter, fall 1962.   “…an apartment dweller can assemble this ultra-modern hi-fi wall,...

Ohm Acoustics’ John Strohbeen: Audiophile Engin...

Issue 103THE COPPER INTERVIEW

New York City’s Brooklyn is famous for a number of things. It has some of the most expensive real estate in New York; some of it with a higher square...

NAMM: An Audiophile’s Perspective

Issue 103FEATURED

The National Association of Music Merchants has been around in one form or another since 1901. It started as an organization for piano merchants, but soon expanded to include other...

Lou Reed’s Berlin – Its Music from a Fresh Pers...

Issue 103FEATURED

With the exception of Foley artists or people who collect sound effects, I think it’s safe to assume that the vast majority of audiophiles are also music aficionados. As such,...

Nancy Wilson: Eight Great Tracks

Issue 103TRADING EIGHTS

When Nancy Wilson was growing up in Chillicothe, Ohio, in the 1940s, her father bought every Nat “King” Cole and Billy Eckstine album that came out. Besides the record player...

Bear: The Owsley Stanley Story, Part One

Issue 103MUSIC TO MY EARS

In this new three-part series, you and I will explore the life and times of Owsley Stanley, who early on financed the Grateful Dead with money he made as a...

Vacuum Tubes: A Brief History

Issue 103REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE

Vacuum tubes, also known as thermionic valves, or just valves in the UK, are electronic devices whose operation is based on thermionic emission. This is defined as the emission of electrons from the surface...

The Rise, Fall and Rise of Rod Stewart

Issue 103OFF THE CHARTS

Born in 1945 in North London, Rod Stewart grew up listening to a variety of music, from Al Jolson to Little Richard. When he got his first guitar at age...

On the Necessity of a Power Plant

AND OTHER ILLNESSESAUDIOIssue 103MUSIC

I know there’s a policy of having us writers not write about PS Audio products. But sometimes it’s something that’s just screaming at us (well, me) to do. Paul McGowan’s recent video/pod-thingy about...

Steve Waksman, Rock Musicologist: Part Two

Issue 103TOO MUCH TCHAIKOVSKY

(Author’s note: In our interview with Steve Waksman in TMT #102, he discussed the shifting social role of the electric guitar in American life; then we talked about Bill Hanley, the...

Mythical Stature: Gentle Giant, Part Two

Issue 103FEATURED

In the first installment of this two-parter, the three Shulman Brothers, along with Gary Green, Kerry Minnear, and John Weathers had completed recording their fourth album, Octopus, in 1972. They began...