At present I listen to the 11 ohms Rogers version of the above speaker. Generally I am pretty happy with the sound. I wonder if there would be any benefit in going over to a newer design from Spendor or Harbeth, perhaps a slightly larger enclosure ( my listening room is 9 X 11 feet)?. […]
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The complete 1970-72 King Crimson captured on 21 CDs, 4 blu-ray discs and 2 DVDs (all audio content) and presented in a 12” box with booklet, memorabilia, a further downloadable concert, and sleeve-notes by Sid Smith, Jakko Jakszyk and David Singleton. Limited edition. * 3CDs feature Steven Wilson and Robert Fripp stereo mixes of In […]
First published November 2013 Bryce Dessner is best known as the guitarist with the much-loved art-rock band The National, but over the last few years he has steadily been carving out another branch to his career in modern composition and contemporary classical music – and the various other terms that are used to describe such […]
Paul McGowan: I’ve written before that in the long run I find that we are very far away from reproducing live sound in our homes. We stress over cleaning and polishing the fine details of our systems when, in reality, they are very far away from live sound reproduced in our home. We can fool […]
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By the way, I just spotted your little bit about the Meridian M1s .. I have seen some M100s for sale and fairly interested – do they hold up to the M10s or were the revised M100s a disappointment like the M20s were? The seller is asking £1000 which seems a little steep – but […]
With mass events on the horizon, nightclubs are getting ready to welcome ravers again. But is there such a thing as a Covid-safe crowd – and will it be as fun?by Alexandra Jones MORE
Hi Michael, At present I listen to the 11 ohms Rogers version of the LS3/5a. Generally I am pretty happy with the sound. I wonder if there would be any benefit in going over to a newer design from Spendor or Harbeth, perhaps a slightly larger enclosure ( my listening room is 9 X 11 […]
The June issue’s cover story explores the borders existing between genres, but in My Music, the feature in which we interview a leading figure from outside of the classical music world, landscape architect Kim Wilkie reflects on sound borders in an even wider sense. There’s usually a timely ‘peg’ as to who we interview in […]
= Back in April 1962, Arthur Jacobs met a young English conductor, Colin Davis, who’d recently been appointed music director of Sadler’s Wells. ‘The clamour for operatic records sung in English,’ wrote Philip Hope-Wallace in his February review of the Sadler’s Wells excerpts from Carmen, ‘is far greater than one might suppose by merely looking […]
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Paul McGowan: I try and run each morning before work because it helps my energy levels stay up during the busy day. Sometimes it’s a real struggle to get moving and stick with it, but music helps keep my mind somewhere other than with the effort of the run. I tried using my phone and […]
Isn’t it obvious? Surely Bach’s music has that solid sense of incontrovertible “rightness”, with every note in its right and proper place, as if it had always been there and always will be. It seems not the work of a mere man, but something immutable and timeless reached down from the heavens, as if Bach […]
Highly influenced by artists like Salvador Dalì, Tangerine Dream began life as a kind of surrealism in music. After having sold off all of their “traditional” music equipment, the Berlin-based band began using strictly electronic devices like synthesizers, sequencers, mellotron, moog and other self-built toys. These rare recordings trace the band from this initial experimental […]
We are told ….. Hosts of the annual Cropredy Festival and a mere year shy of their 50th anniversary, Fairport Convention is the British folk-rock group, and many of the most talented and celebrated musicians in the scene have passed through their ranks. Of their many line-ups, generally it’s the Richard Thompson-Ashley Hutchings-Sandy Denny era […]
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Paul McGowan: Yesterday I proposed a thought problem once again. This time we compared the direct output of a stereo microphone vs. the recorded output of that same microphone while a group of acoustic musicians played in a room separate from us – and we could hear a difference between the recorded version and the […]