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Issue 53Opening Salvo

Welcome to Copper #53! Our very first issue appeared on March 7, 2016. It's hard to believe that we've been at this for two years now; we've come a long way since...

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The Big Rock Show

Issue 53

Some friends of mine have been putting on a big rock show annually for the last few years, under the name Wild Honey, as a benefit for the Autism Think...

Sony CEO Steps Down; More Challenges for Gibson

Issue 53INDUSTRY NEWS

Sony Corporation laid out major management shifts in a recent press-release.  CEO Kaz Hirai, widely credited with the company’s return to profitability, began his career at CBS/Sony Music, worked through the video...

Climbing to the Audio Summit Part 3: Speakers a...

Issue 53TWISTED SYSTEMS

As I bring this “Climbing to the Audio Summit” exercise to a close I am not just taken aback by the total amount of gear that I purchased over the...

Cross-country Skiing

Issue 53QUIBBLES AND BITS

I expect all of you will be well familiar with skiing, that glamorous sport that involves hurtling from the top to the bottom of a snow-capped mountain, while dressed in...

Piano Club

Issue 53AND INDIE FOR ALL

Their lead singer and songwriter goes by the cool-cat name of Anthony Sinatra, so you know they take pop vocal music seriously. Still, Piano Club, which has been recording and performing...

Move It On Over: Rockabilly, Part 1

Issue 53MUSIC TO MY EARS

Dave turned onto 13th Ave that runs west out of Ames Iowa, and into the farm country for a Sunday drive with Penny.  Dave’s dad had recently bought a ’56 Chevrolet...

Are We Having Fun Yet?

Issue 53THE AUDIO CYNIC

A newbie wandering onto almost any audio website or forum might ask, after a brief perusal, “Jeez, why so serious? Why are they all so ANGRY?? “Is anybody having FUN??”...

QED, Bitches!!

Issue 53FEATURED

Agnostics are often assumed to be wishy-washy—that they dither and um when asked about greater things. But actually, an agnostic has a firm belief: they do not have enough information...

Fort Peck

Issue 53MUSIC'AL NOTES

“You won’t find a hotel room anywhere for the next 300 miles.” We had stopped in a town called Glasgow, Montana, to gas up. I hail from Glasgow, Scotland, and...

The Big Rock Show

Issue 53MUSIC AUDIO AND OTHER ILLNESSES

Some friends of mine have been putting on a big rock show annually for the last few years, under the name Wild Honey, as a benefit for the Autism Think Tank ....

Daughters, Part 1

Issue 53TOO MUCH TCHAIKOVSKY

  Choose your parents carefully. That’s probably the best advice anyone can offer a young person who wants to become a composer. It helps a lot if your mom or...

Audio Fidelity: Bobby Palomino of The Teemates,...

Issue 53THE COPPER INTERVIEW

[We’ve previously written about the pioneering audiophile label Audio Fidelity on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the release of the first single-groove stereo record by the label, and in John Seetoo’s interview with Andrea Bass,...

A Serious Hobbyist

Issue 53VINTAGE WHINE

In Copper #52 we began poring through a collection of audio ephemera gathered by Dr. James McVay, the grandfather of fellow columnist Duncan Taylor. Dunc brought in a binder full of material from the...