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From Audio Classics in Vestal, New York, here’s a gorgeous, 16-pound Sherwood Electronic Labs S3000 III FM tube tuner from the early 1960s. Sherwood was founded in Chicago in 1953,... Read more...

Piper Payne – A Mastering Engineer For Next Generation Music, Part Three

After establishing her reputation as a mastering engineer in Oakland, California for artists like Third Eye Blind, The Go-Go’s, and LeAnn Rimes, Piper Payne merged her company with Infrasonic Mastering... Read more...

Richard X. Heyman: Still Going at 67,000 Miles an Album

Richard X. Heyman has long had a habit of paying homage to his various influences while simultaneously carving out new and exciting paths ahead. In his earliest days in the... Read more...

What if Elvis Had Lived?

Let’s go back to August 1977. Elvis Presley’s records were not being played much on Top 40 radio. He released one single in the summer of 1977, “Way Down,” that... Read more...

Retail Therapy

I never trained as a psychologist. Instead, in my retail career I maintained an open mind, had probably more patience then than I do now, (but not that much less),... Read more...

Classical Music for a Desert Island, Part Three

Part One and Part Two of this series on desert island classical music albums appeared in Issue 172 and Issue 173. To recap: this list reflects my taste. Yours may be entirely different.... Read more...

Pianist Sarah Cahill: The Future Is Female

Pianist Sarah Cahill has never been interested in the established musical canon. Her whole career, she has sought out composers to collaborate with, most notably Terry Riley and Lou Harrison.... Read more...

Around the World In 80 Lathes, Part 24

J.I. began his overview of Danish-made Lyrec record cutting lathes in Issue 173. All Lyrec disk recording lathes, from the SV-2 to the SV-10, had similar features. They were all... Read more...

The Elusive Del-Vikings

You’d think the Del-Vikings would be pretty simple to research. The popular doo-wop group, formed in 1955, had a few hits over ten years. What could possibly be complicated? As... Read more...

Neighbors

Bukhara. It was the razor wire that really got my attention. The concrete paving of the back garden and installation of a 10-foot perimeter fence was bewildering, but the addition... Read more...

The New York Audio Show 2022, Part Two

Even though Manhattan is the center of the photography universe, amazingly, it’s never had its own major photography festival. Sure, there are events like PhotoPlus Expo, held each fall at... Read more...

Back to My Reel-to-Reel Roots, Part 25: Half-Full – Not Half Empty

Ken Kessler looks again at the availability of reel-to-reel hardware – and drools with envy All it took were the words of a semi-troll/moron replying to an Instagram posting. Up... Read more...

Steven Page (Formerly of Barenaked Ladies): Soaring Higher with Excelsior

Barenaked Ladies (BNL) is a Canadian rock band that helped define the 1990s. As a rock outfit they found a way to marry musicianship and humor in a manner that... Read more...

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Tape vs. Vinyl: An Old <em>Pawnshop</em> Favorite

Tape vs. Vinyl: An Old Pawnshop Favorite

I just received my reel-to-reel tape copy of Jazz at the Pawnshop from AudioNautes Recordings last week. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this recording, who I suspect... Read more...

Pilgrimage to Sturgis, Part 32

The Bhagwan played his sitar for about 20 minutes. Most everyone left for home during that time. When he looked up, he seemed surprised to see that there were still eight... Read more...

The History of A&M Records, Part Eight: Horizon Records

In 1975, A&M Records established a subsidiary jazz label called Horizon Records. John Snyder (who had previously worked with producer Creed Taylor) was the label’s creative director, and left in... Read more...

The Golden Decade for Popular Music…The 1950s?

I belong to a music-listening group consisting of five people who get together once a month. Everyone gets a turn to be the host who provides the playlist, wine, and... Read more...

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