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Issue 104

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Copper has been moving to increase its audio-related articles. We intend to bring you more about audio tech, interviews and company profiles, show reports and other audio subjects. That said, our...

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Ohm Acoustics, Part Two: An Inside Look

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The Columbia Street Waterfront District of Brooklyn is technically in Cobble Hill, but it is partially separated from the rest of the neighborhood by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Access can be...

Border Crossings and Power Plays

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WKBW Buffalo Out of radio station CHAM and still living in Canada, I snagged a part-time on-air job for my former program director from Pittsburgh who had moved to Buffalo,...

Secrets of the Phono Cartridge, Part One

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Phonograph disc reproduction cartridges (phono cartridges as they’re known to you and me) all contain transducers consisting of coils of wire, iron and permanent magnets. They can be divided into...

Expanding Horizons

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Copper has been moving to increase its audio-related articles. We intend to bring you more about audio tech, interviews and company profiles, show reports and other audio subjects. That said,...

Confessions of a Setup Man, Part One

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This is the first in a new series about my misadventures in setting up audio systems. I’ve been an audiophile since the 1970s and have done uncountable setups for myself,...

Adventures in Audio: AT&T and Me

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Way back in the very early days of the World Wide Web, there were things called Newsgroups. Remember them? There was rec.audio.high-end, for those of us who love this tweaky,...

An A1 Speaker System

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The mighty Altec Lansing Voice of the Theatre A1 speaker system, 1945 catalog. I'll bet he's thinking, "With a little work, it could be adapted for home use..." They knew...

Crate Digging, Part II

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More crate digs, and leading off with a couple of notable comedy albums. Yeah, I know, it’s not music, but still listenable, enjoyable, and very collectible. And some of it,...

Mr. Don and the Delinquents

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During the 1970s I had an opportunity to teach a class of motivated fourth grade students interested in learning through music and the other arts. At least that's what I...

Friends from Sunrise to Sunset

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Taken at the Santa Fe Ranch, Nogales, Arizona.

Bear: The Owsley Stanley Story, Part Two

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As reclusive and protective of his identity as Owsley “Bear” Stanley had been, one can’t manufacture the purest LSD on the planet and personally turn on half of the state...

Cop Tales

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First Phone Call: “Let me speak to Mary.” “I’m sorry, wrong number.” I replied. The phone rings again. An agitated voice speaks.“Let me speak to Mary. I know she is...

Cleveland Rocks. Does the Rock Hall?

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The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum began as an idea, became a building, and is now an argument. There was only the idea, and it seemed a...

Beethoven: Recent Piano Concerto Recordings

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It’s come at last, after months of industry hype: the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth year. As you might imagine, I could devote this column to new Beethoven recordings for...

Band of Brothers: Kings of Leon

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Hard to believe, but it was 20 years ago when three brothers and a cousin from the Followill family of Oklahoma and Tennessee formed a band and named it Kings...

Beethoven Begins

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When did Beethoven become Beethoven? That is, when did he decisively put aside student exercises and astonish listeners with something quite different? A lot of us think we know the...