Copper


Issue 16

Issue 16Opening Salvo

Welcome to Copper #16! We’re excited by our recent additions. Many of you read Darren Myers’ first installment of Make It Yourself, on building an interconnect. Darren’s back with the first steps in reviving vintage components....

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Wait A Minute!

Issue 16FEATURED

We interrupt our regularly scheduled Subwoofery series for a Special Announcement! In the past couple of weeks, as I voiced several systems around the country and conducted set-up classes at my RoomPlay...

Amplified & Equalized

Issue 16FEATURED

Having generated a few milli- or micro-volts by our humble little cartridge, we now have to equalize by applying the inverse of the RIAA curve that was applied when the...

Felix Pappalardi, Nantucket Sleigh Ride

Issue 16MUSIC TO MY EARS

A band named Mountain, that in its most potent form lasted from 1970-1972, was the absolute and undeniable Father of Heavy Metal. I usually leave some room for argument, I like to...

Vinyl, baby!

Issue 16IN MY ROOM

Being a vinyl type of guy, with CDs to fill in the gaps, I have assembled a system that I think pays tribute to that unique vinyl sound. I play...

Versa Dynamics

Issue 16VINTAGE WHINE

Every now and then a new company appears in the audio world, seemingly out of nowhere, with high aspirations and novel technology. Versa Dynamics was one such company, appearing in...

How to Make a Vintage Component Sing Again

Issue 16MAKE IT YOURSELF

Part 1: The power supply capacitors It’s not a secret that one of the more economical ways of building a HiFi system is to purchase used or vintage gear. There’s...

How Much Power Do I need?

Issue 16BACK TO BASICS

Power amplifiers, whether standalone or built into a receiver, integrated, or even our mobile phones, drive our speakers and headphones so we hear sound. Amplifiers produce Watts and, if you’ve ever...

Twist And Shout

Issue 16MY TURN

The rebirth of interest in LPs—vinyl records— has brought many newbies to the field, often with a rather iffy survival rate. Paul Epstein and wife Jill are no latecomers, having...

Sigma Delta Modulators Part II

Issue 16QUIBBLES AND BITS

In my last column, I wrote about how a SDM might be used to faithfully reconstruct an incoming signal, even if its output is constrained to an apparently hopelessly reduced...

That’s Show Biz!

Issue 16THE AUDIO CYNIC

In Copper #7, I wrote about the passing of Richard Beers, the promoter of THE Show-Newport. In #8, I asked, “how many shows are too many?” Consider this column the...

Two Kinds Of Hits

Issue 16MUSIC AUDIO AND OTHER ILLNESSES

We have a hit. We’ve been hit. Both are true. Everybody wants a hit record; everybody. It’s money, it’s acknowledgment, and it means more work, all those things. The  Tuesday...

Organizers and Decorators

Issue 16TOO MUCH TCHAIKOVSKY

Isaiah Berlin gave us foxes and hedgehogs. Classical Greece offered Apollo and Dionysius. Not to be outdone, Ned Rorem came up with his own slam-dunk binary oppositions, French/German. (Example: cats are...

End Of Summer Storm

Issue 16PARTING SHOT

Life on the Eastern Plains outside of Boulder can often be as dramatic as thunderstorms that look like alien spaceships descending from the heavens. Close encounters?