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Issue 50Opening Salvo

Welcome to Copper #50! It's hard to believe we've reached our 50th issue---and thanks to all of you for supporting us, and helping us to reach this milestone. Even more unbelievable is...

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Tom Fine, Part 2

Issue 50THE COPPER INTERVIEW

[Tom Fine is an archival/recording/mastering engineer, and if if his name sounds familiar, it’s likely because he’s the son of Robert Fine and Wilma Cozart Fine. One of the rare husband-wife teams in...

Qobuz Comes to the US; Circuit City Returns?

Issue 50INDUSTRY NEWS

If CES is good for nothing else, it’s good for generating press-releases. As we can read in the press-release that will follow, Qobuz (koh-BOOZ, if you’re French; KO-buzz, if you’re...

Mozart Chamber Music

Issue 50SOMETHING OLD / SOMETHING NEW

Mozart’s string quartets and sonatas are deservedly adored members of the classical canon. But he wrote many other genres of chamber music as well. Three recent recordings remind us to...

Cables: Time is of the Essence, Part 3

Issue 50FEATURED

[We began this series of articles by Belden engineer Galen Gareis in Copper #48 , and continued it in Copper #49. We now present the conclusion of  Time is of the Essence, on time-based distortions in audio cable design,—Ed.] 7) Dielectric...

The River Runs Through It: Rick Hall

Issue 50MUSIC TO MY EARS

Trains and rivers run through America like blood brooding through the veins of a thoroughbred.   There are few things more magical to a working man than looking down that track...

Yellow Light Machine

Issue 50AND INDIE FOR ALL

When you hear the word “indie,” you probably think of New York. Or Toronto. Maybe Seattle. Even Reykjavik. But what about Nairobi, Kenya? There’s a burgeoning indie music scene there,...

Equal Time

Issue 50VINTAGE WHINE

In Copper #48 I began the perusal of a hefty box of old issues of The Absolute Sound, kindly sent by Australian reader Ian Lobb (and again, goodonya, mate!). Last issue I focused on the influence of TAS‘ founder...

Jazz

Issue 50MUSIC'AL NOTES

“God bless you honey, God bless you”, said Alberta Hunter to my mother. Greenwich Village in the seventies was dirty and gritty. Crime was rampant and bodies floating in the Hudson...

The Final Countdown!

Issue 50TWISTED SYSTEMS

We’ve arrived at the finals of the ‘67 Psychedelic Shoot-out!!! There was no way of knowing how this whole exercise was going to peel out. It really just started as...

“The Japanese Beethoven”

Issue 50QUIBBLES AND BITS

Modern popular music differs most significantly from classical music in that the original performance is considered to be the definitive expression, and any others that follow are generally considered to...

What Is a Bass? Part 4: Electronic Guitars

Issue 50MUSIC AUDIO AND OTHER ILLNESSES

I want to wrap up this attempt to answer the question of what goes into a bass (a question only asked by one person) by talking a little about the...

Voices

Issue 50TOO MUCH TCHAIKOVSKY

Whenever people talk seriously about recorded music, sooner or later the matter of scale comes up. Some musics and musical experiences get big. Others win by staying small. So, public versus intimate. Meta...