Copper


Numerologist’s Delight

Issue 61Opening Salvo

Welcome to Copper #61! Someone, somewhere will undoubtedly be able to extract immense meaning from the numerological confection that is the date of this issue: 6/18/18. That person is not me. I...

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RootMasterSound

AND OTHER ILLNESSESAUDIOIssue 61MUSIC

By now, it’s no secret that THE Show a few weeks ago was a mild bust. Too many events scheduled for the same place at the same time, etc. I...

AT&T Cleared to Take Over Time Warner; Mixed Ne...

Issue 61INDUSTRY NEWS

While things are momentarily quiet in the audio biz itself, one monumental deal will likely change the landscape of media (including music) and business, forever. Federal District Judge Richard Leon cleared...

Our Annual Summer Edition

Issue 61TOO MUCH TCHAIKOVSKY

Sweet summer! Calendar-wise, it’s not quite here, but musically it’s already available, via new recordings of two seasonal favorites. Also on tap: a masterpiece for all seasons, freshened through the...

Belmont Park

Issue 61MUSIC'AL NOTES

She was a head taller than everyone else, and moved like a real thoroughbred. If anyone truly belonged at Belmont, it was she. I once owned a racehorse. To be...

Guitar Influences, Part 5: Mick Ronson

Issue 61TWISTED SYSTEMS

So now you are saying….”So how do you go from all these blues masters to Glam hero Mick Ronson?” Fair enough. As much as the Beatles were the “Big Bang”...

What's a Speaker? And What's a Driver?

Issue 61VINTAGE WHINE

You know how annoying it is when you’re surrounded by a group of surgeons or securities traders or physicists or whatEVer and you realize that their conversation is filled with...

Queen in the '70s

Issue 61OFF THE CHARTS

Now that the first trailers have been released for Bohemian Rhapsody, a biopic about Freddie Mercury and the band Queen, the extraordinary song that the movie was named after is back to selling like...

Restoring a Historic Pipe Organ on a Budget

Issue 61FEATURED

[John Seetoo‘s interview with Kamel Boutros appeared in Copper #60. This article goes into the details of some of Boutros’ work at the historic Calvary Episcopal Church in New York–-Ed.] Calvary Episcopal Church was founded in...

Hollywood Nights

Issue 61HAND PICKED

[And now for something completely different: at the heart of each and every one of Christian’s columns will be audio from his radio show in which he dissects and analyzes...

You May See Me Tonight With an Illegal Tweak

Issue 61FEATURED

As I threatened to do in my last column , I wrote a long review on power conditioners and power cords. What I left out of that story though, because I ran out of...

Conversing With Choueiri: Part 2, Going to the ...

Issue 61THE COPPER INTERVIEW

In Part I of my conversation with Professor Edgar Choueiri, he laid out the basis of how we perceive a three-dimensional soundscape, and what the cues were that our ear/brain...

Dispersion

Issue 61QUIBBLES AND BITS

“Knowledge increases by diffusion, and grows by dispersion” – Daniel J. Boorstin One thing that audiophiles regularly fail to grasp adequately is how a sound wave propagates away from a...

Anti-social Media

Issue 61THE AUDIO CYNIC

Despite appearances—and perhaps despite my self-description as a cynic—I try to be a live-and-let-live type. I am careful to NOT describe myself as “easygoing”; I once did so in the...