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Issue 31

Issue 31Opening Salvo

By the time you read this, Axpona will be over. With the blessings of the pixel pixies, we'll have a feature next issue. We seem to be well and truly into Spring,...

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Spring has sprung

Issue 31PARTING SHOT

Spring is finally here and in many parts of the world, it's still cold as we wait for summer (at least in this hemisphere). A last minute warm-up in a...

American Symphonies

Issue 31TOO MUCH TCHAIKOVSKY

Writer Philipp Meyer said something worth repeating a couple of weeks ago: Literature—or any art—should move you before you understand why. It should feel as if you’re in the presence of something...

Big Bang For Bucks

Issue 31IN MY ROOM

Feeling a bit inspired about low-fi and mid-fi based upon the Paul’s Posts series this past week, I thought I would send some shots of my latest room to give...

hhgregg Shuts Down and Neil Young Returns

Issue 31INDUSTRY NEWS

hhgregg to Liquidate Assets [Never a big player in audio beyond the HTIB (home theater in a box) segment, Gregg is yet another once-sizable CE chain biting the dust. It...

More Q & A on Getting Better Sound

Issue 31FEATURED

Continuing with our questions & answers series, I have two that have always caused some contention.  In that respect, I hope you find them interesting: Why you should be sour...

What’s the Warmth in Tube Amps?

Issue 31FEATURED

Why are we, as audiophiles, entranced by the reproduction of music using vacuum tubes? As it turns out, noise is traditionally thought of as something to be minimized in all...

Damaged Bug/Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Issue 31SOMETHING OLD / SOMETHING NEW

Album: Bunker Funk Artist: Damaged Bug Release: Castle Face Records, March, 2017 As the needle drops, Bunker Funk oozes through the speakers and brings me back right where Damaged Bug’s 2016 album Cold Hot Plumbs had left...

Johnny B. Goode: Johnny Winter

Issue 31MUSIC TO MY EARS

The car went over a heave in the road and the radio came on.  There was something wrong with the wiring in your dad’s ’28 Studebaker, it didn’t like East...

Brendan Maclean

Issue 31... AND INDIE FOR ALL

In Baz Luhrmann’s 2013 movie The Great Gatsby, the small role of party-crasher Ewing Klipspringer was played by singer-songwriter and fellow Australian Brendan Maclean. Although it was not a singing part,...

The Mother Of All Speakers (MOAS)

Issue 31VINTAGE WHINE

I had begun writing a piece about the history of horn loudspeakers (still to come, don’t panic) when MOAB—the Mother Of All Bombs—appeared in the news. That triggered a memory...

Doh! A Deer!

Issue 31QUIBBLES AND BITS

When I was a kid, growing up in a rough area of Glasgow, we were all taught music at elementary school.  I have a memory going back to about age...

Whatever Happened to Tone?

Issue 31THE AUDIO CYNIC

During  the way-too-many years that I’ve been involved with audio, a number of terms that were first used by JGH, HP, JA , and other initialed Editors,  have risen to...

The Minimalist Groove of Nik Bärtsch

AND OTHER ILLNESSESAUDIOIssue 31MUSIC

I first heard of composer Nik Bärtsch from director Robert Harmon around the time of Bärtsch’s earliest ECM releases. A little while after that, my friend Pete Devine started raving...

When Pop Music Meets Politics...

Issue 31TWISTED SYSTEMS

..things may not go as planned. The recent presidential elections highlighted the use of pop music by candidates, and the controversy that the use of the music caused. This article...

Simple Acoustics, Complicated Spouses

Issue 31FEATURED

When I was a teenager, I told a girl that I loved her so much that I would die for her. She replied that if I died, she’d no longer find...