Copper

Bob Lehman, a classically-educated retired electrical engineer and long-term audiophile, asked some very good questions upon reading my column in Issue 110, “Vinyl and Absolute Polarity: A Technical Exposition.” What follows... Read more...

Tiptoe Through the Tweeters

This Issue’s Cover: Bob Dylan (born 1941). The times they are a changin’ indeed. Issue 112...evoking Route 112 on Long Island and another memory flash from around 30 years ago... Read more...

Attack of the 20-Foot Tweeter

Editor’s Note: Chris Brunhaver is the senior speaker design engineer at PS Audio. We asked him about what inspired him to become involved in the audio industry. On a typical... Read more...

How I Met Buck Dharma of Blue Öyster Cult

When I was a teenager I wanted to be a rock star. Every month, the magazines Creem and Circus came out and I devoured them, windows into that mythical rock and roll world I... Read more...

Axiom Audio Celebrates its 40th Anniversary

Canadian loudspeaker and electronics manufacturer Axiom Audio is celebrating their 40th anniversary this year. Located in Dwight, Muskoka, Ontario, the company offers a range of wired and wireless speakers, systems and amplifiers.... Read more...

Songs of Praise From Unlikely Artists, Part One

Sex, drugs and rock and roll – the phrase is a catchall euphemism for the debauchery and revelry associated with the music industry. Tales of Dionysian excess, wild drunkenness, partying,... Read more...

A Quartet of Outstanding New Releases

I’ve been away for a few issues; and besides, there haven’t been an exceptional number of interesting new releases coming out during the pandemic — not too many artists in... Read more...

Tales of an Audio Forum Administrator, Part Three

My last installment gave an in-depth look at what many forum moderators experience on a day-to-day basis. It isn’t the most glamorous job, but it’s ultimately rewarding enough that they... Read more...

Diving Into Dire Straits

It was the late 1970s in London. Two guitar-playing brothers from Newcastle, Mark and David Knopfler, had been active in the music scene. Sometimes they crossed paths with bass guitarist... Read more...

Lee Morgan: Eight Great Tracks, Redux

[FYI: from Columbia University’s Jazz Glossary—yes, there is such a thing: “Also ‘trading fours,’ etc. Soloists taking turns at improvising, playing for eight (or four, etc.) bars at a time.” In the wee hours of a snowy February morning in 1972, Helen Morgan entered Stub’s Saloon in New York City’s East Village and shot her husband dead. She couldn’t take any more of his drug use and infidelity. Sadly for American music, she’d silenced a spectacularly unique jazz mind. Trumpeter Lee Morgan was only 33 years old. His main legacy in... Read more...

Donovan’s Muse: an interview with the Real Jennifer Juniper

For those who don’t know, Jenny Boyd is a former model and was a big part of the 1960s British rock scene. She’s also Pattie Boyd’s sister. (Pattie was... Read more...

Little Richard: The Architect of Rock and Roll

This incredible story is about one of the most influential vocal stylists of our generation and generations to come. Giants will remember Little Richard and the debt owed to his... Read more...

Fiona Apple: Fetch the Bolt Cutters

I knew I was all in with the new Fiona Apple album was when I had my “Shameika” moment. “Shameika” is the first single and second song on Fetch the Bolt... Read more...

Passed Down Through Generations

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