A short documentary asking the simple question- Why Vinyl? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUIMbwvYVOI A few viewer comments: Buying a CD is like throwing money away. The CD is a dying medium, the sales decline since many years, while downloads, streaming and vinyl sales are growing strong. Who needs a physical copy of digital data anyway and even pays […]
Month: July 2020
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Originally published in 2015 After Wilko Johnson was diagnosed with terminal cancer two years ago, his calm, philosophical acceptance of imminent death made him even more beloved and admired. And then the strangest thing happened: he didn’t die. So now what? Continues HERE
A reader asked us to put the following to Dr. Bews: I am looking for a high-quality battery powered amplifier. I have seen a few listed on eBay from other makers and one from DIY Kits but I figured I would ask to see if such a beast exists. The power to my home is […]
Consists of twelve songs written by various writers and each recording features a guest vocalist.Carla’s track by track notes in the CD’s booklet gives some insight into how this album was created but why is also of interest. Basically the record is a tip of the hat to those that inspired her in her youth. […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BvXBwtrs_k 1,420,259 views so far “This DVD reminded me why I was an REM fan in the first place. Recorded in Germany in 2003, the concert features plenty of hits (Man on the Moon, One I Love), some obscurities (Begin the Begin, Maps & Legends) and some recent songs I hadn’t paid enough attention to […]
Raw Performance at The Boston Music Hall, 26th February 1977 on WBCN-FM Includes the entire broadcast Digitally remastered for greatly enhanced sound quality Background liners At a point in time when Johnny Winter had only recently recovered from past addictions and blues giant Muddy Waters had faced a decline in his career with illness and […]
Gram Parsons and the Fallen Angels were recorded at Sonic Studios in Hempstead, New York on March 13, 1973 during a live radio broadcast from WLIR-FM, a station located in Garden City, New York. The timing of the recording thus sandwiched it between Parsons’ only two solo studio albums, GP, and Grievous Angel released after […]
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Hello Nathalie. How did your interest in music reproduction start? My interest in music is natural; I am as thrilled by the music of nature as I am the sounds of people and their music. From birdsong and wind to industrial rhythms; all sounds interesting me. For a few years I studied music theory and […]
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A Sonny Rollins concert is an event in the world of jazz.Rolling Stone once said that, in the future, people will boast of having seen Rollins perform, much as the lucky few now boast of having seen the great bebop pioneer Charlie Parker. Rollins indelibly wrote himself into the pages of jazz history on June […]
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Abrahamsson Audio – are they still in business? We don’t think so. Here’s what we’ve been able to find so far: “Norwegian manufacturer of high end amplifiers based in Oslo and run by Ola Abrahamsson who some of you might remember from Internet amplifier DIY discussions in the 90’s. Started manufacturing amplifiers using a slightly […]
Rebuilt subwoofer plate amp, every component replaced besides the tranny. All tracks resoldered. Larger Mundorf filter caps and bridge rectifier. This sub digs very deep. The plate amp was always a little underpowered hence on the 2nd hand market they are always blown. This one has been rebuilt. It would have been cheaper/better to use […]
Alan Brown writes ….. Obscenity My problem with high-end cables is that it’s possible to spend truly obscene amounts on them. Obscene, because it seems to me many offerings to the audiophile market are overpriced hype with no real merit. Well it does seem like that doesn’t it? I mean ….. that’s the easy stance; […]
The simple fact you are staring at the monitor and reading this article means that either you are an audiophile or that you are strongly willing to become an audiophile (kudos then!). Or, perhaps, you just pretend to be an audiophile. In some sense, I’m an audiophile too. This all sounds like a meeting of […]
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This issue about copyrights and protection has so many layers My absolute first ever system was a philips mono record player with a ceramic cartridge and a speaker in the lid. It switched on by pulling the arm to the right. That would be about 1970. Then one christmas I got a proper Philips stereo […]
Well, debate has been going on for a while, do “audiophile” cable upgrades actually work, with a stronger debate going on for actual analogue signals. I’ve just got a short post and a interesting question to share: Assuming that changing cables changes sound signature and that its true, why do we never see people talking […]
Martin Cullingford writes: Recently I used this space to praise those who support contemporary music, who ensure that music written today is an integral part of our listening life. The occasion then was that James MacMillan’s Stabat mater was our Recording of the Month. Well, three issues on, and this month we bestow that accolade […]
The director of the Marian Consort Rory McCleery talks to Editor Martin Cullingford about the ensemble’s latest recording, ‘Music for the Queen of Heaven’, an album of modern Marian motets, many of which were commissioned by the choir. The album is ….. Continues HERE
MICHELL / TRANSCRIPTORS ON A TIGHT BUDGET