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Changing Perspectives

Issue 110Opening Salvo

This issue's cover: Amy Winehouse (1983 – 2011) and Tony Bennett. Winehouse was one of the most unique new voices to burst upon the contemporary music scene, a voice silenced...

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Getting to the Point

Issue 110PARTING SHOT

Dead Horse Point State Park, Utah. Though the environmental and temperature conditions are extreme, the plants and animals have adapted.

Goin’ to the Bank!

Issue 110AUDIO ANTHROPOLOGY

This is a fax I received from Les Paul in 1992. In it he answers a series of questions I’d asked him in researching an article for The Absolute Sound in...

Bassic Necessity

Issue 110MUSIC TO MY EARS

In his Issue 108 column Dan Schwartz related that Paul McGowan had proposed a series on why a bass instrument was necessary. Drums keep the beat and guitars and other...

Vinyl and Absolute Polarity: A Technical Exposi...

Issue 110REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE

One might think that the whole issue of absolute polarity for vinyl records, a medium essentially invented around 130 years ago, would have been adequately discussed and standardized by now,...

Steely Dan, Redux

Issue 110OFF THE CHARTS

Steely Dan has such a smooth sound, it’s easy to imagine them appearing fully-formed from the musical ether. Needless to say, that wasn’t the case. Singer/keyboardist Donald Fagen had met...

Binghamton

Issue 110MUSIC'AL NOTES

My first impression of America was Binghamton, New York. With the exception of a few hours’ layover in JFK, (Green Acres was playing on the TV and I seriously considered returning...

Day After Day…

Issue 110TWISTED SYSTEMS

Day after day, alone (with a lot of media and a great spouse) on a hill… (What media gets me through these times.) Here I am, living in Manhattan on...

In My Dreams, Redux

Issue 110MUSIC AUDIO AND OTHER ILLNESSES

Sometime in 1995, Bill Bottrell called and wanted me to be on stand-by. He was supposed to meet someone whom he had been putting off, but just in case, he...

Dylan Dials Up JFK, the Wolfman, and Whitman

Issue 110WAYNE'S WORDS

“Murder Most Foul,” Bob Dylan’s newly released song, is long. It is 17 minutes and change, about as long as “Desolation Row” and “Like a Rolling Stone” combined. It is...

I Love LA

Issue 110TRUE-LIFE ROCK TALES

I sank into the plush soft leather seat and snapped on my seat belt. My surroundings were the inside of the private jet owned by WEA (Warner Music Group, at the...

Elitism in Audio and Its Implications

Issue 110FEATURED

Audio and music are passions. They can be a hobby, a vocation, a lifestyle, a love, a way to live or all of these. They are very personal pursuits and...

Tales of an Audio Forum Administrator, Part One

Issue 110INDUSTRY NEWS

Internet forums are a way of life for many of us. We turn to them for information, education, camaraderie, entertainment and friendship. They provide us a place where we can...

Getting It Wrong: Confessions of a Setup Man, P...

Issue 110FRANKLY SPEAKING

Audio system setup is, I feel, as much an art as a science. I suppose one school of thought would insist that there’s only one way to get it “right,”...

Multichannel Hall of Fame Mk I

Issue 110TOO MUCH TCHAIKOVSKY

Recently, I’ve had more time to poke around my “record collection,” i.e., anything I didn’t stream, download or mail-order last week. I focused on multichannel music, because I love it and...

I Got Paid to Count to 50

Issue 110TRUE-LIFE VOICEOVER TALES

Way back in 1976 I was on the air in Montreal radio. I got a call out of the blue from a man who wanted to meet regarding using my voice...