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Issue 106

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This issue's cover: conductor Leopold Stokowski (1882 - 1977). One of the greatest conductors of all time, Stokowski helmed the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NBC Symphony Orchestra and other top musical...

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Desolate Landscape, Storybook Bliss

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Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National Park, California.

Haunted: Confessions of a Setup Man, Part Three

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When I was Harry Pearson’s setup man at The Absolute Sound, equipment would break down all the time. I’m not talking about a tube going bad every once in a...

The Digital Sound of Vinyl

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In a recent video in his “Ask Paul” online video series, PS Audio’s Paul McGowan offers his theory of why new vinyl LPs sound more “digital” and less “analog” (“Why...

The Changing Audio Consumer and the Future of A...

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While many of us focus on high-performance two-channel audio systems, which are more or less the result of decades of development and art, we’re not typical consumers. A lot has,...

The Last Station

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Finding myself in Syracuse, New York and out of work once again, I sent resumes out and networked very seriously. I did get a bite via a friend in Minneapolis....

Are Audio Dealers in Trouble? Readers Respond

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In Issue 105 we featured an Industry Viewpoint column from Magnepan marketing manager Wendell Diller. He asked: are audio dealers in trouble? Where can a consumer go to listen to...

Linearity in Audio, Part One

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In my previous article on vacuum tubes in Issue 103, I talked about linearity. One of our readers requested a more thorough explanation of how linearity relates to audio and...

Kiss and Tell

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It's the morning after the July 11, 1976 concert in Hyannis Port's Cape Cod Coliseum. Once again the limousine doesn’t show. Annoyingly, this has become a regular theme on the...

Not Fade Away

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This issue's cover: conductor Leopold Stokowski (1882 - 1977). One of the greatest conductors of all time, Stokowski helmed the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NBC Symphony Orchestra and other top musical...

John Dowland: Renaissance Composer, Lutenist an...

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If you’ve ever strummed a guitar while singing, you can thank English composer John Dowland (1563-1626) for helping to popularize the accompaniment of voice with a fretted string instrument. His...

A Taste of Bread

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Although Bread was a Los Angeles band, its roots stretched over the state line into Oklahoma. In the vibrant Tulsa music scene of the 1950s, singer and guitarist David Gates...

Bear: The Owsley Stanley Story, Part Four

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In 1976 Steely Dan released The Royal Scam, their fifth album. One of my all-time favorite songs, “Kid Charlemagne,” is on this disc. Donald Fagen would describe the lyrics as...

CanJam NYC 2020 Show Report, Part One

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Ever since the Sony Walkman became a private music listening platform sensation in the late 1970s, headphone design and specs have continued to improve, with the consumer, professional and audiophile...

Four New Records of Introspection...and a Littl...

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All the albums I’m reviewing this time express in some way qualities of introspection, melancholy, despair, and disillusionment; there’s no intended theme here, it just worked out this way! It...

Casual Listening

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We can never be this cool. From Audio, September 1966. One wipe preserves high-fidelity! Author's collection. Wonder if Brian Wilson owned one? From Audio, October 1958.

Beethoven (and Other) Landscapes

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I’m pretty sure I discovered Ludwig van Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony as a sixth grader. There it was, an LP in a hardware-store rack in my little town, and I bought...