Copper


...But It's a DRY Heat....

Issue 37Opening Salvo

Welcome to Copper #37! As temperatures topped triple digits in much of the US, I flashed back to the days when I kept physical media in my car. In the cassette era,...

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The Castle on the Coast

Issue 37PARTING SHOT

An ancient castle still stands guard on the coast of Ireland.

McIntosh Group Adds Co-CEO

Issue 37INDUSTRY NEWS

[As discussed in Industry News in issues #25 and #26 . there have been a number of changes recently at McIntosh Group, the umbrella group for McIntosh Laboratory, Audio Research, Sonus faber, Sumiko, Wadia, and Pryma....

Interpreting Purcell

Issue 37SOMETHING OLD / SOMETHING NEW

Henry Purcell (1659-1695) lived at an expansive time in British music history, when artistic freedom had been restored after a generation of repressive Puritan control. Somehow this allowed Purcell to...

Controversy Corner ?

Issue 37FEATURED

Part One:  Past 50? Is your hearing still good enough to worry about your system’s sound quality? I’ll never forget these intertwined events. It was in the early 1980s. I...

Has Music All Been Downhill Since 1969?

Issue 37FEATURED

Some 30 years ago, I was involved in a debate with a younger co-worker on another magazine – let’s call him “Martin T”– about something I had posited, and with...

Hey! Hey! It’s the Monkees!

Issue 37MUSIC TO MY EARS

In 1966 I was 12 and the world was 9. I had no truck with those so-called rockers The Beatles from England with cute voices only partly because the girls my age...

Adrian Crowley

Issue 37AND INDIE FOR ALL

Adrian Crowley might as well be the love child of Lou Reed and Leonard Cohen. The Dublin-based songwriter has the intense introspection, cracking baritone voice, and distaste for sentimentality that...

Ephemera

Issue 37VINTAGE WHINE

Back in the ’70’s, Ron Gilbrech, then a salesman at Opus 2 in Memphis, said to me, “y’know, as much as you’ve spent on magazines, you could’ve bought a killer system by...

The Wong Way

Issue 37MUSIC'AL NOTES

“Dear Roy, Thank you for email. Our guy would like meet you 30 minutes before boat time. The meeting place in selling tickets place in CHINA Ferry Terminal 2f. The...

Happiness is a Warm Bun

Issue 37QUIBBLES AND BITS

At least it can be, when that bun is freshly baked and straight from the oven.  And, happily for me, my wife bakes a pretty mean bun!  But can you...

Multiple Personality Disorder

Issue 37THE AUDIO CYNIC

A few years ago I spotted a bizarre trend in popular music. I’m not sure if it’s “blue car syndrome”—how if you talk about blue cars, suddenly it seems as...

Net Neutrality

Issue 37MUSIC AUDIO AND OTHER ILLNESSES

Net Neutrality – the Why, but mostly the Why Not Today, July 12th, I’ve received a dozen emails with subject lines like “Today we save the internet”, and “One Day...

Fireworks and Fizz Water

Issue 37TOO MUCH TCHAIKOVSKY

Hey there, classical fans. Let’s talk shallow pleasures! Excuse me? Didn’t we do “fun” last month? Look, it’s midsummer. Temperatures in the 90s. No shade anywhere. We had a Glorious...

Steve Hoffman, Part 2

Issue 37THE COPPER INTERVIEW

[In the first part of this interview, Steve and John Seetoo discussed Steve’s beginnings in the mastering world, his mentors, and some of his favorite projects. Thanks to Steve for taking the...