Copper


Issue 51

Issue 51Opening Salvo

Welcome to Copper #51! We've passed New Year's, we've passed CES, and the whole world seems to be recovering from the flu. We hope you're either well, or on the mend. Our...

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Cables: RCA Interconnects

Issue 51FEATURED

There is no magic to good cables; it is adherence to strict design rules that also encompass those “magic” tertiary variables. In the three-part series, Cables: Time is of the Essence, ...

Nat King Cole: For Sentimental Reasons

Issue 51MUSIC TO MY EARS

In 1926 Nathaniel Adams Cole was 7 years old and US Route 66 was established as a part of the US Highway System.  I don’t have to go into where...

One Down, One to Go

Issue 51INDUSTRY NEWS

Starting in  Copper #40, there have been several occasions when we’ve looked at the activities of two companies that historically have been truly important to the worlds of audio and music—though not...

Tom Fine, Part 3

Issue 51THE COPPER INTERVIEW

[Tom Fine is an archival/recording/mastering engineer, and if if his name sounds familiar, it’s likely because he’s the son of Robert Fine and Wilma Cozart Fine. One of the rare husband-wife teams in...

CES: A Look Around

Issue 51FEATURED

Our little world is categorized as “High-Performance Audio” (HPA) by the Consumer Technology Association, the group that puts on CES every year, and I think that’s a far better term than...

David Myles

Issue 51... AND INDIE FOR ALL

David Myles is a Halifax-based singer/songwriter with a smooth and tender voice, a vaguely retro look and sound, and an insatiable love of many types of music. At 36 years...

15,000 Pages!

Issue 51VINTAGE WHINE

I started reading when I was 3. I say that not to evoke any particular reaction in the reader, but just to make clear the fact that I’ve been reading...

The Deal (or: How Adolf Hitler Bought Me a Jaguar)

Issue 51MUSIC'AL NOTES

Reading the deed in the Grundbuch (land registry) in East Berlin was chilling. It showed that my grandmother had purchased a property in Lichtenberg in 1932. In 1941 a swastika...

Climbing to the Audio Summit Part 1: Turntables

Issue 51TWISTED SYSTEMS

I want to thank you all for your comments on the “Great ’67 Psychedelic Shoot-out”.  [In case you missed it: Part 1 Part 2  Part 3  Part 4  Part 5   The Winner!  —Ed.]  Spoiler alert!: The winner was Pink...

Loudness

Issue 51QUIBBLES AND BITS

It was Lee Atwater, a controversial campaign strategist for Bush Sr.’s successful 1988 presidential campaign who coined the phrase “Perception is Reality”.  Unfortunately for Bush (but more so for Atwater, it must...

In the Land of the Surreal, Is Realism Relevant?

Issue 51THE AUDIO CYNIC

I despise dogma—especially when it comes from me. So when I find that pretty much everything I say regarding CES has become strident and predictable—it worries me. Enough so that I may have to...

Danny Thompson

AND OTHER ILLNESSESAUDIOIssue 51MUSIC

While writing the last few chapters, I talked on occasion to Rick Turner. He suggested that I should write about someone who it turns out is a favorite upright bass...

Searching For Big

Issue 51TOO MUCH TCHAIKOVSKY

I’ve been listening to, or watching, a lot of new opera lately. Saw Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel at the local multiplex, via Met HD; listened to the live Pentatone recording of Jake Heggie’s It’s...