Copper


Happy Passover/Easter/April Fools' Day!

Issue 55Opening Salvo

Welcome to Copper #55! It's a little odd when holidays come in clumps of threes---but then, I'm not sure if April 1st could properly be considered a holiday. Whatever. Be safe, and...

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Stereophile, What Hi-Fi? Sold

Issue 55INDUSTRY NEWS

Consolidation in the publishing world is nothing new, but it is nonetheless an odd coincidence when the sales of two major English-language audio magazines are announced on two sequential days....

My Helios

Issue 55MUSIC AUDIO AND OTHER ILLNESSES

I’ve been asked a couple times about the recording / mixing console I own (with a friend). So I thought I might write a little about it. Helios began at Olympic...

I. Don't. Know.

Issue 55FEATURED

I’ve been involved in theater most of my life—my parents ran an amateur English theater group, performing everything from David Mamet to William Shakespeare to Neil Simon to Harold Pinter...

Vintage Voltage: A Photo Feature

Issue 55VINTAGE WHINE

Researching and writing theoretical and historical pieces is a lot of work, and can get a little dry. As a change of pace, I present pics from Vintage Voltage, a local...

Charlie Patton: Father of the Delta Blues

Issue 55MUSIC TO MY EARS

It’s June 1929.  A young man in his early thirties takes the long train ride, 750 miles, from Jackson, Mississippi, to Richmond, Indiana.  It’s so hot in the coach compartment...

The F16s

Issue 55AND INDIE FOR ALL

Chennai, capital city of the state of Tamil Nadu on India’s southeastern coastline, is home to the five men who make up The F16s. Billing themselves as a “Madras/Bangalore-based Dance/Punk...

Macy’s

Issue 55MUSIC'AL NOTES

“What did you say to Mr. Segal?” My boss grabbed my arm and pulled me aside. “Who’s Mr. Segal?” I asked. Through some fudging about my education on my resumé,...

A Very Twisted Tower Tale

Issue 55TWISTED SYSTEMS

The response to my tone control/ equalizer article brought out the inner fight in many of you. I would hope that high-end manufacturers are listening, and reading many of your...

How Do You Know When To Quit?

Issue 55THE AUDIO CYNIC

No, don’t worry—I’m not planning on retiring any time soon. It just ain’t an option. Besides which, I’m having fun— at least as much fun as a morose, depressive upper-Midwesterner...

Daughters, Part 2

Issue 55TOO MUCH TCHAIKOVSKY

Talk about in medias res. In “Daughters, Part 1” we stopped virtually mid-sentence after introducing Milica Djordjević (b. 1984), Serbian composer now based in Berlin. The waves she’s making in Europe are only...

Lalo Schifrin

Issue 55THE COPPER INTERVIEW

Hailing from Buenos Aires, Argentina, composer Lalo Schifrin has had an incredibly diverse career over the past six decades.  With numerous classical and jazz compositions inspired by South American music and his...

Much Ado About Nothing

Issue 55QUIBBLES AND BITS

Sometimes the dumbest questions can be the toughest ones to answer.  Take this one, for example: “What does space look like if you take everything out of it?”.  On the...

Cables: Speaker Cable Design, Part 1

Issue 55FEATURED

In this series, we've discussed the basics of audio cable design (Part 1 Part 2 Part 3), RCA and XLR interconnect design, and now we look at speaker cables. These...