Copper


August Heat

Issue 65Opening Salvo

Welcome to Copper #91! Having left the relatively-balmy temps of the Bay area and returned to the high-altitude frying pan of Colorado, I was reminded of the classic story and radio play,...

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Reel to Real

Issue 65TWISTED SYSTEMS

“Hey Jay Jay,  how about an audio column for a change?” YOU GOT IT! Several years ago, a mutual friend introduced me to Ken Kessler. I’d been reading Ken’s reviews and...

A Monster Story, and Sonos Goes IPO

Issue 65INDUSTRY NEWS

Noel Lee was an engineer at the Lawrence-Livermore Laboratory and a drummer when he  started his company Monster Cable in 1979, thus becoming one of the founders of the US audiophile cable...

Customers Behaving Badly

Issue 65FEATURED

Customer: “There’s a violin in it.” Sales Manager: “What did you say?” “I just heard a beautiful piece of music on the radio. It had a violin in it. I...

Who Are You?

Issue 65HAND PICKED

HELLO! In this installment of “Hand Picked” we’re going to do a little bit of the ol’ “Cross-Promotion.” Over on her “Off The Charts” column this issue, Anne E. will be discussing some...

The Who

Issue 65OFF THE CHARTS

They’re one of the defining bands of rock music, but even The Who had songs that didn’t hit the big time, even when they were at the height of their influence. Some...

If No One Ever Reads This Column…

Issue 65QUIBBLES AND BITS

…did I actually write it? There is a catchy phrase, “Perception is Reality”, which is often thrown about as a pithy epithet, although at times it shows up as a...

What’s In the Box?

Issue 65THE AUDIO CYNIC

There is no mystery in the world today. –That’s not entirely true.  There’s plenty of mystery, mostly related to the inexplicable fame of certain individuals, famous for…being famous. The mystery...

Bert van der Wolf

Issue 65TOO MUCH TCHAIKOVSKY

[Bert van der Wolf is a distinguished Netherlands-based engineer/producer with over thirty years’ experience in developing and advancing high-resolution, multichannel classical recording. Recently he agreed to share his thoughts with...

Hitting Bottom

AND OTHER ILLNESSESAUDIOIssue 65MUSIC

Mark Malboeuf, alias badbeef, asked me to comment on a thread in the PS Audio forums about PS’ AN-series speakers in development, and as I thought about it, I realized I...

50 Ways to Read a Record Part 1

Issue 65VINTAGE WHINE

I’ve spent half a century immersing myself in the history of recorded sound. Recently I’ve had to go back to the very beginning and start over: I’m in the process...

Sinai

Issue 65MUSIC'AL NOTES

The muezzin woke us up with the Adhan (The Muslim call to prayer). It was dawn in Jerusalem and we had spent the night in my favorite hotel, The American Colony...