SQUEEZE: The Knowledge (CD)

We are told ….. Welcome back to the world of Squeeze, a world where previous visitors will find much that is both reassuringly familiar and intriguingly different. A new album, ‘The Knowledge’, offers up another dozen examples of high quality Chris Difford & Glenn Tilbrook song craft, and is the perfect curtain-raiser for a massive […]

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LINDA RONSTADT: Sausalito 73 (CD) Live FM broadcast

A rare broadcast from LINDA RONSTADT that highlights some of the very best material she performed during the first few vital years of her solo career. Live from the renowned Record Plant recording facility based in Sausalito, California. 1. Nightingale 2. I Fall To Pieces 3. Silver Threads and Golden Needles 4. Love Has No Pride 5. Rock Me on […]

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VAN MORRISON: Roll With The Punches (CD)

We are told ….. Roll With The Punches – Van Morrison’s 37th studio album – sees him simultaneously hand-picking a selection of rhythm and blues classics (by the likes of Bo Diddley, Mose Allison, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Lightnin’ Hopkins among others) and recording a set of new self-written songs. It’s an album that features […]

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Falling off the tracks

Paul McGowan writes ….. Televisions and home theaters need remotes, our hi-fi systems do not. For those ancient enough to remember when equipment did not have remotes, we solved the problem of volume adjustment in the same way we made it easy to play a record. The preamp and turntable were next to us. No […]

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JOHN WILLIAMS: News

THE COMPLETE ALBUM COLLECTION BOX SET of 59 CDs The long wait is over for guitar-music aficionados. Sony Classical is now issuing the first-ever complete collection of recordings by the incomparable John Williams. This Original Jacket Collection comprises 57 original albums made over four decades, including his style-crossing collaborations and a DVD. And Williams’s recordings […]

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DANGER: What is the biggest danger facing the high-end sector?

Neil, what is the biggest danger facing the high-end sector? In a word, hype. In another word, the bullshit. Another word ignorance. Anyone looking in on our tiny and dwindling high-end world would think we are nuts. Not nuts because of the prices. But nuts because of the nonsense published occasionally in some magazines about […]

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PS AUDIO: ”Can I get that for $1000? If so, sign me up.”

Paul McGowan: I am reminded about the inevitable followup questions people ask after first hearing a high-end stereo system.  ”Can I get that for $1000?  If so, sign me up.”  always feel so inadequate explaining how this system is a compilation of many hand-selected pieces of equipment, hours of hand tuning and thousands of Editdollars.  […]

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SANTANA: Corazon Live From Mexico:Live It To Believe It (CD/DVD) inc. track listing

Ten time Grammy-Award winner Santana presents “CORAZÓN, LIVE FROM MEXICO: LIVE IT TO BELIEVE IT”, a special CD/DVD concert event. The DVD includes  the concert film, and a “making of the concert” 30 minute documentary shot in Puerto Vallarta, Riviera Nayarit, and Guadalajara (“Live It To Believe It”) and the accompanying CD is the live […]

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BOB DYLAN: 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration (2CD Deluxe Edition) inc track listing

Columbia Records and Legacy Recording have announced The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration- Deluxe Edition  will be released on March 4, 2014.  The collection will be available in three different formats: 2CD, 2DVD, and Blu-ray disc. The CD version will include unreleased tracks from Sinéad O’Connor and Eric Clapton that were recorded during the sound check for the […]

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PS AUDIO: The strike of a wooden block

Paul McGowan writes: I was going to step off into the deep end this morning with the start of our cable series but many of you asked about the results of the latest amp shootout so I thought I’d give you a brief update on that progress. The quick overview is that we made significant […]

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RY COODER

Being pretty pleased with my classical music ‘experiments’ via ebay [read earlier postings] I though it might be useful to apply the same technique to Ry Cooder. I didn’t know too much about him other than he’s highly respected. and so his first recording turned up on eBay for £3.00 – post free. Hardly a […]

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Delayed audio

Paul McGowan writes: Here’s an interesting fact. If we play our stereo system outdoors we’d have no room problems, yet not much would sound right. Rooms are somewhat of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, their hard boundaries enable our speakers to fill the room with sound. (Imagine your stereo system trying to fill Yankee Stadium). […]

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