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Time Passages

Issue 159Opening Salvo

It is with deep sadness that we report the passing of WL “Woody” Woodward, one of Copper’s most beloved writers, and director of operations at PS Audio. His singular writing style and...

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John Sloman: Rocking With Lone Star, Uriah Heep...

Issue 159Idle Chatter

We recently dug in with veteran front man and dynamic rock vocalist, John Sloman, a man whose career in music has spanned nearly fifty years, and one who remains as...

A Music Lover’s Journey

Issue 159Sitting In

I’m serious when I tell you this stuff keeps me up at night. The following recounting of musical experiences and personal reference points is not meant to be a boastful...

10 More Great Music Documentaries

Issue 159Featured

A lot of people turned to binge watching during the pandemic lockdowns. Although I wasn’t binging, I did take the opportunity to check out a number of documentaries about bands,...

The Day the Music Died

Issue 159Featured

Dear intrepid reader: I’m sure when you first saw the title of this article, you naturally assumed I would work Don McLean’s song of the same name into it. Sorry,...

The SweetVinyl SugarCube SC-1 Plus, Part Two

Issue 159FROM THE SWEET SPOT

I have had the SweetVinyl SugarCube SC-1 Plus going on three months now.  In my last article about the SC-1 Plus (Issue 154), I explained the SugarCube’s functions, and gave my initial impressions of how...

Back to My Reel-to Reel-Roots, Part 11

Issue 159Natural Born Kessler

High Crimes and Misdemeanors Nobody ever accused the record labels of unnecessary largesse. While the audiophile companies like Impex, Analogue Productions, Mobile Fidelity, Speakers Corner, Intervention and others show care...

Using EQ With Speakers: Some Limitations

Issue 159Speaker Stories

In a previous article (Issue 158), we considered how it would possible to make meaningful adjustments to the in-room frequency response curve of our loudspeakers, by the use of a parametric EQ....

Still Got the Knack: Rock Bassist Prescott Niles

Issue 159Disciples of Sound

The Knack officially arrived on the scene in June of 1979 and set the music world on fire with their mesmerizing rocker “My Sharona.” It was Capitol Records’ fastest Gold record debut...

Around the World In 80 Lathes, Part Nine

Issue 159Revolutions Per Minute

Previous installments covered the earlier history of Neumann lathes. Neumann record-cutting lathes came with a groove inspection microscope, which slid across the platter on a monorail guide with a rack...

Jim Anderson and Ulrike Schwarz: Immersive Audi...

Issue 159The Copper Interview

With multiple Grammy Award wins and nominations to their credit, as well as European awards such as the Echo Klassik and Le Diamant d’Opera, Jim Anderson and Ulrike Schwarz have...

Octave Records Releases Audiophile Masters, Vol...

Issue 159Octave Pitch

Octave Records has released Audiophile Masters, Volume V, the latest in its series of reference-quality music sampler discs. Volume V features world-renowned cellist Zuill Bailey playing a selection from the Bach Cello Suites, plus jazz...

The Murky Landscape of Music Creation and Owner...

Issue 159Deep Dive

The origins of music are generally linked to mythological, religious, and/or philosophical beliefs. Ancient Chinese musical instrumentation, for example, was used in order to appeal to the supernatural, for dance,...

Three Days With Frank Sinatra, Part Two: Gradua...

Issue 159Featured

It had been a year since I saw Frank Sinatra last. (Part One of this series appears in Issue 158.) The sauce-making story got plenty of mileage and I felt like...

Pilgrimage to Sturgis, Part 17

Issue 159New Vistas

Some of the seniors dropped in briefly for coffee after Lonnie Many Bears and his grandson left the saloon by the trout pond. Other than that, it was quiet for a couple of hours until a...

"Time," Part Two

Issue 159FROM THE SWEET SPOT

As if from The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd… Spinning away the CDs that make up a bright dayHall and Oates play in the hours that make up the...

Head Land

Issue 159Parting Shot

This photo is called Head Land because of the dreamlike cloud formation and its heady feel. Taken at Gara Point, South Devon, UK, at the mouth of the Yealm estuary,...

Something for Everyone

Issue 159Audio Anthropology

Make that more than 100 years. 1975 ad for the imaginatively-named Garrard Zero Tracking Error Tonearm. When it comes to vinyl playback, everyone’s got an angle.   Ken Kessler: in...

Clarinetist Don Byron: You Can't Pin Him Down

Issue 159Trading Eights

Some things in this world are impossible to pin down. Clarinetist Don Byron’s favorite genre seems to be one of them. Jazz? Yes, but jazz is a whole universe of...

Copper and PS Audio's WL "Woody" Woodward: In M...

Issue 159Frankly Speaking

It was the kind of message you never want to get. On March 16, 2022, Paul McGowan informed me that Copper writer and PS Audio director of operations WL “Woody” Woodward had...

The Mystery of the New York Acoustics Nova 1 Lo...

Issue 159To Be Determined

Roy Brunjes was a petroleum engineering graduate of Penn State University, and worked for thirty years with Texaco, including a ten-year stint in England as part of the North Sea...

Everything but the Girl: British Sophisti-Pop

Issue 159Off the Charts

On Beverly Road in Hull, England, there used to be an old furniture shop called Turner’s. Its slogan was painted across the front awning: “Everything but the girl.” Two young...