Copper


Issue 56

Issue 56Opening Salvo

Welcome to Copper #56! With the recent Montréal Audio Fest, the western hemisphere's spring show season is officially underway. Our resident Montréalais Richard Murison took a look around the show, and his report is here. Soon...

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The Sound of Microphones

AND OTHER ILLNESSESAUDIOIssue 56MUSIC

Specifically, Neumann LDCs, or Large Diaphragm Condensers. You know how they sound. Everybody knows how they sound. They’re the most ubiquitous recording mics there are. But just in case: You...

Mykonos

Issue 56MUSIC'AL NOTES

“Aren’t you Morag and Elspeth from Arbroath?” The flight to Greece was uneventful but cramped. In the early eighties my wife Rita and I had little money but we wanted...

Hi-Fi Shows

Issue 56QUIBBLES AND BITS

I was tasked by Editor Leebs to cover my local high-end audio show, whose formal name is “Salon Audio Montréal Audio Fest”, a name only a mother could love.  The show has just...

Michelle Zauner

Issue 56... AND INDIE FOR ALL

Michelle Zauner’s domain name uses neither a dot-com nor a dot-net. It has a dot-rocks. Seriously, her website is JapaneseBreakfast.Rocks. And if you click on the tab labeled “Quest,” you...

Schubert's Winterreise

Issue 56SOMETHING OLD / SOMETHING NEW

When Franz Schubert first played his song cycle Winterreise (Winter Journey) for a few friends in 1828, they were amazed by how dark and grim it was, with most of the songs...

Show Report: Montréal Audio Fest

Issue 56FEATURED

When Editor Leebs asked me to do a show report for the Montréal Audio Fest, I thought nothing of it. I’ll be going anyway, so why not just take some notes and write...

Violin+Orchestra, Part 2

Issue 56TOO MUCH TCHAIKOVSKY

So many concertos, so little time. When I decided to devote two whole TMT columns to (ahem!) Violin Concertos After Beethoven, my aim seemed simple: I would sort through a...

Ergonomics and Other Gooey Messes

Issue 56THE AUDIO CYNIC

In my teen years, my reading was wide-ranging and varied, aided by access to the million-volume Morris Library at Southern Illinois University. It was originally a handsome building done in...

Debt Is Death (Sometimes)

Issue 56INDUSTRY NEWS

Our focus this time in Industry News will be on a thread that connects a number of businesses that have been in the news, including mentions in this column. Businesses run on...

What's Past Is Prologue

Issue 56VINTAGE WHINE

The older I get—and at this point, I’m as old as dirt— the more I become aware that there is very little objective judgment in life. The one thing I...

Cables: Speaker Cable Design, Part 2

Issue 56FEATURED

Part 1 of this article in the previous issue ended with the design brief for conductors in a speaker cable. I described why I chose a star-quad geometry using a  20-mil wire...

Rikki Farr, Part 1

Issue 56THE COPPER INTERVIEW

[Rikki Farr had a long career as a raconteur and concert promoter, starting with the Beatles ‘way back at the dawn of time—well, the early ’60’s, anyway. Son of Tommy...