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Sounds Good to Me

Issue 91QUIBBLES AND BITS

What attributes should an item of equipment in a sound reproduction chain possess in order to meet the objectives of high-end audio playback? One attribute we tend to think of...

Paper

Issue 91VINTAGE WHINE

It’s everywhere. We take it for granted, blow our noses on it, wipe…. and yet, paper has been a vital part of sound reproduction from the earliest days. Despite the...

So You Think You Love The White Album?

Issue 91TWISTED SYSTEMS

Probably not as much as Rutherford Chang. This is how I first heard about a collection of the Beatles’ White Album: “Hey Jay Jay, there is a store somewhere that sells...

The Long Goodbye

Issue 91THE AUDIO CYNIC

Over the last few years of writing this column, I’ve had to write “RIP” in titles several times as friends and colleagues have passed away. Being a typical male, I’ve...

The Mystery of The Making, Redux

Issue 91MUSIC AUDIO AND OTHER ILLNESSES

I never think about how mysterious the process of contemporary record making is, or was, to the people who buy those records. Which, when you think about it, is really...

The Sound of Recorded Music

Issue 91REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE

Different time periods in history are associated with particular architectural trends, building techniques and construction materials, different stages of technological development, as well as different styles and forms of musical...

Five New Releases, No Losers

Issue 91TO BE DETERMINED

Tom Gibbs' record reviews to Copper. Tom has reviewed records for years, but may be better known to most readers for his gear reviews. We're happy to have him stick...

Billy Taylor: Eight Great Tracks

Issue 91TRADING EIGHTS

Pianist and composer Billy Taylor (1921-2010) grew up in Washington, DC, where he took classical piano lessons with a man named Henry Grant. Grant’s other claim to fame in jazz...

A Turntable of my Own, Part 2

Issue 91IN MY ROOM

Copper #90---Ed.> Here we see the finished laminated fiberglass plinth sitting atop the 1 ½” thick machined aluminum sub-plate. You will notice the ¾” thick grey MDF pieces sitting between...

Django, Act 5

Issue 91MUSIC TO MY EARS

On January 29, 1947, Django Reinhardt landed in New York. Because of poor communications, Django was a late add to the new tour and Ellington didn’t have the arrangements for...

Hall Sounds

Issue 91TOO MUCH TCHAIKOVSKY

Late this May I fulfilled a longstanding wish—to attend Choral Evensong at King’s College Chapel, Cambridge. Director Stephen Cleobury retired at the end of June; this was one of the last...

Steve Winwood & the Spencer Davis Group

Issue 91OFF THE CHARTS

It was 1963 in Birmingham, UK, when guitarist/songwriter Spencer Davis convinced Muff Winwood and his little brother Steve, only 14 years old, to join him in a band. With the...

Budapest

Issue 91MUSIC'AL NOTES

I was sitting on a bidet in Budapest, thinking of Sam Tellig. Sam had told me about the Gellert baths many years ago. It’s a massive building decorated in Art...