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Issue 132Opening Salvo

You can only put so much of an input signal into an amplifier before it won’t deliver any more output. The amplifier starts clipping. If you look at a sine...

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Nils Lofgren – A Retrospective Look at a Musici...

Issue 132FEATURED

Once upon a time, I was a young assistant manager at Globus Brothers Studios in New York City. They were the creators of the Globuscope 360, a servo motor scan...

Totally Transparent

Issue 132FEATURED

When it comes to conversation, occasionally we may preface what we say with, “To be honest, I….” This figure of speech seems totally natural to us and endeavours to add...

Josquin des Prez – A New Approach to Musical Ex...

Issue 132SOMETHING OLD / SOMETHING NEW

Music history often points to particularly innovative and influential composers as bridges from one stylistic era to another. There’s Beethoven, breaking through his elegant and rule-bound classical training to practically...

Don’t Fear the Streamer

Issue 132STREAMING SESSIONS

We live in good times. As I sit here in front of my system this evening, I appreciate what decades of progress have brought us. I discovered an artist on...

Alicia Keys – She’s Ready

Issue 132OFF THE CHARTS

From grooving on Chopin and Satie at the piano and listening to her mom’s jazz records as a girl to selling 12 million copies of her first pop single when...

Getting High

Issue 132NEW VISTAS

I have come to believe that the solo traveler exploring this planet, unburdened by the constraints, sensibilities or itineraries of others, is able to attract a certain serendipity as a...

Open Reel Tape – The Ultimate Analog Source?

Issue 132DEEP DIVE

With the advances in digital audio technology of recent years, is there still a role for analog audio?  In my previous article (in Issue 131), I argued that many recordings made during...

Hitchhiking with Alice Cooper

Issue 132TRUE-LIFE ROCK TALES

It was late 1968 when my friend, the late Barry Byrens, said to me, “Linc,” (he loved calling me that), “you need to get rid of that motorcycle and get...

Octave Records Goes Jazz: Gabriel Mervine’s Say...

Issue 132OCTAVE PITCH

Octave Records just issued its latest release on March 5: its first jazz album, Say Somethin’ by trumpet player Gabriel Mervine. The album of originals and standards was recorded live with no overdubbing...

Where Were You When The Lights Went Out?

Issue 132TWISTED SYSTEMS

You probably wished you were hanging out with me…read on… Recently, as I was walking through an antique store in Geneva, New York, I came upon a box of old...

Bob Dylan – 1970 50th Anniversary Collection

Issue 132WAYNE'S WORDS

In 1969, Beacon Books released a collection of essays called Rock and Roll Will Stand, edited by Greil Marcus. It’s mostly interesting or not scribblings by Marcus, America’s unmatched culture critic on...

John Mayall Part Two – The Turning Point

Issue 132MUSIC TO MY EARS

As mentioned in a previous column (Issue 130), John Mayall was traveling back and forth between England and America, where he became enamored with the Los Angeles lifestyle. In 1969 he...

The Big Move, Part Two

Issue 132REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE

In Part One (Issue 131), J.I. Agnew wrote about the difficulties of moving an entire recording and mastering facility, complete with machine shop, grand piano, literal tons of equipment and...

Cable Design and the Speed of Sound, Part Three

Issue 132DEEP DIVE

In Part One of this series (Issue 130), Galen Gareis of ICONOCLAST cables and Belden Inc. began an extensive exploration into a critical but not often discussed aspect of cable...

Jorma Kaukonen: Playing Fur Peace

Issue 132DISCIPLES OF SOUND

Jorma Kaukonen has been wowing live audiences for decades with his remarkable guitar skills and his unique take on American roots music, blues, Americana, and of course rock and roll....

Nicky Hopkins: An Unsung Musical Hero

Issue 132SITTING IN

Nicky Hopkins is hardly an unknown entity in the world of rock music. A stellar piano/keyboard player, even the most modest rock fan is likely familiar with his work. Think...

Three Excellent New Albums By Bands That Had Fl...

Issue 132TO BE DETERMINED

Mogwai – As The Love Continues Mogwai is a Scottish band that formed in 1995 in Glasgow; founding members Stuart Braithwaite and Dominic Aitchison first toyed with forming a band a few...

Tale of the Tape

Issue 132AUDIO ANTHROPOLOGY

John Seetoo saw this TEAC 4300 tape deck on a Brooklyn street corner, with a note that says, "COVID-19-free – needs a tune up." One person's trash is indeed another...

High-Performance Driver

Issue 132PARTING SHOT

The last ray of the setting sun catches Jimmie Johnson setting a new lap record during qualifying as he enters Turn #1 at nearly 185 mph. Phoenix International Raceway, Avondale,...

Talking With Andrew Hoffman of Audiophile Archi...

Issue 132FRANKLY SPEAKING

Audiophile Archive and Grading Services (AAGS) is a vinyl record-grading and archiving company. They clean, inspect and grade records, certify their grading and record a high-resolution digital audio backup, among other...