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Happy Landings!

Issue 90Opening Salvo

Welcome to Copper #90! By the time you read these, the 50th anniversary of the moon landing will have come and gone, and my landing in Oakland for the California Audio Show will also...

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The Rise, Fall, and Resurgence of the Vinyl Record

Issue 90REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE

Two of the world’s leading chip manufacturers have recently announced moving on to 5 nm manufacturing. Nanotechnology and micromachining are becoming hot keywords in technical and scientific publications. Micro Electro...

Spandau Ballet

Issue 90OFF THE CHARTS

The London punk scene was wearing some musicians out. People like songwriting guitarist and keyboardist Gary Kemp, who wanted to seem like a rebellious musician, but not in the same...

We All Shine On, Redux

Issue 90MUSIC AUDIO AND OTHER ILLNESSES

49 years ago, in the first international worldwide television broadcast, John Lennon sang to us, “There’s nothing you can do but you can learn how to play the game –...

30 Years

Issue 90QUIBBLES AND BITS

I am an ex-Pat Brit, living in Canada for the last 30+ years. During that time I have been back to the UK many times, but this year I spent...

The Dave Clark Five

Issue 90TWISTED SYSTEMS

When writing this column, I frequently close my eyes and go back to certain times in my life – in this case 1964 post Beatles arrival – and try to...

A Turntable of my Own, Part 1

Issue 90IN MY ROOM

Copper #72, #73, and #74. In that series of articles, Ken described how he cut down trees on his property, milled, planed, and cured the lumber, then built his listening...

Django, Act 4

Issue 90MUSIC TO MY EARS

In 1940 the Nazi war machine engulfed France and Paris in a cloud of black smoke. Misery came to freedom lovers everywhere, not just the continent. The silver lining was...

Guillaume de Machaut

Issue 90SOMETHING OLD / SOMETHING NEW

His poetry was admired by Geoffrey Chaucer, he survived the Black Death, and he wrote the most-recorded Mass of the 14th century. That’s a decent thumbnail bio of the multi-talented Guillaume...

Quintessence

Issue 90VINTAGE WHINE

Sometimes you encounter stories where it turns out that the story you think you want to tell, is just a very small part of a much bigger story. This is one of those stories-within-stories....

The Jewish Cemetery

Issue 90MUSIC'AL NOTES

The Jewish cemetery in Shettleston, Glasgow is a miserable place. Not because of what it is but because of its location. For some reason it is always raining in this...