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Issue 105

Issue 105Opening Salvo

(With a tip of the hat to the Hank Stone Band’s song of the same name.) The world of audio is diverse – we can choose from analog, digital, tubes, transistors,...

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Building Community

Issue 105

(With a tip of the hat to the Hank Stone Band’s song of the same name.) The world of audio is diverse – we can choose from analog, digital, tubes,...

Key West

Issue 105MUSIC'AL NOTES

“Go immediately to the emergency room. I can’t help you here,” said the doctor in Urgent Care. It was my first day of vacation in Key West (about a week...

Industry Viewpoint: Are Audio Dealers in Trouble?

Issue 105

Introduction by Paul McGowan, PS Audio: Magnepan and its loudspeakers are legends in our industry. It was a pair of Maggies that Stan Warren and I used as a reference...

A Classic Turntable's Forgotten Roots: the AR XA

Issue 105

When the AR XA turntable came out in 1961, it was an instant classic – almost immune to external shocks and vibrations, low in rumble, and priced at a shockingly...

The Ecstatic Music Of Alice Coltrane Turiyasang...

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I can’t remember exactly when I first heard of Alice Coltrane, but it’s over 45 years ago. But I do remember the first album I got - her collaboration with...

It Came from LA...

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Moderate size and cost" must have meant something different at the end of the 1950s. From Audio, December 1958. Anyone remember these? Guess their moment has come and gone. From...

Secrets of the Phono Cartridge, Part Two

Issue 105

At the heart of all phono cartridges we will find a transducer that translates mechanical motion – the movement of the stylus and cantilever as the stylus traces the record...

Bear: The Owsley Stanley Story, Part Three

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By accounts, in early 1967 Owsley “Bear” Stanley (click on the links for Part One and Part Two of this series) had stashed away $225,000 in a safe deposit box...

The Tice Clock and the Endless Search for the H...

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Back in the good old high-end audio days of around 1968 – 1971, things used to be a lot simpler. I would walk into one of my local haunts in...

Joshua Redman’s Sun on Sand

Issue 105

We’re taking a break from Beethoven Plus One in order to address a more urgent concern: How’re ya fixed for Happy Dances? Do you even have one? Of course you...

Bang, Zoom! Confessions of a Setup Man, Part Two

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The higher the resolution of an audio system, the more that attention to detail matters. Nowhere was this more evident than in the main audio system at The Absolute Sound....

We're an American (Prog) Band

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There are many more American progressive rock bands than you might think – and a surprising number are from the Midwest. The biggest, in terms of commercial success and recognition,...

The Lowdown

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Chris Crepps backing up country singer Dale Watson.

Alison Krauss: Reinventing Bluegrass, Reanimati...

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For many people, the soundtrack for the Coen Brothers movie O Brother, Where Art Thou in 2000 served as an introduction to the multitalented Alison Krauss. Her singing of “Down...

Gene Krupa: Drummin' Man

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Not every great musician gets to reinvent his instrument the way Gene Krupa did. Under his sticks, a drum set became both more powerful and more integral to the music...