Month: July 2021
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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 […]
Just curious; seems the Sugden company rarely makes a mis-step, but I’ve never heard anything about the TT. Anyone like to share their experience. MORE
We are told: A Collector s edition 2CD digipak of Quicksilver Messenger Service performing live in front of the Fillmore audience…. Classic line-up featuring the twin guitar attack of Gary Duncan and John Cipollina tearing through the band s best songs including Pride Of Man, Acapulco Gold & Silver, and Light Your Windows plus blues […]
In any respected artist’s career, there lies a milestone and September 1978 revealed an energy and aura in Bruce Springsteen that truly reflected that. Live at the Capitol Theater, Passaic, NJ from 19th September, 1978 boasts a seminal performance from Springsteen whose conviction was blindingly apparent on his home turf in New Jersey. Other than […]
Stravinsky’s father sent him to study criminal law and legal philosophy at St Petersburg University in 1901. Through his friendship with Vladimir and Andrei Rimsky-Korsakov, two sons of the great composer, Stravinsky became a family friend and a frequent visitor to Rimsky’s house. With Feodor Stravinsky’s death in 1902, Igor began taking lessons (free of […]
The Principal of the Birmingham Conservatoire talks to James Jolly Continues HERE
You’ve Never Had It So Cheap Which is just as well, because it’s shocking to see how cheap things have become. Most old classical LPs – even really nice ones in excellent condition – command no more than 50p to £1 – maybe £2 if you’re lucky. Used CDs fare little better, and can often […]
So there is this controversy of sorts… well not really for many of us, but certainly for some of us. See, the argument is that USB cables cannot and will not change the sound since it is just passing along 1’s and 0’s from point A to point B. It is all digital and so there […]
Angela Hewitt’s spectrum of touch, her fluency and sense of colour are deployed with enchantment in this Debussy: Suite bergamasque CD, writes Geoffrey Norris. MORE
Lauren Laverne curates an hour of her favourite new releases, this week from the likes of Tricky, Sufjan Stevens, Cut Copy and the spotlight is on Electro duo Jockstrap. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000mkpt
C is for Cosima Wagner; AKA Francesca Gaetana Cosima Liszt, illegitimate daughter of Franz Liszt; AKA Cosima von Bülow, wife of the conductor Hans von Bülow, who proved remarkably understanding when Cosima fell in love with the sexually rampant Wagner in 1863. Cosima was tall, aloof, beak-nosed, antisemitic and altogether a bit weird. According to […]
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We are told: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of the Moody Blues’ Days Of Future Passed. This 2CD/DVD deluxe set includes the full original 1967 stereo mix, which is being released on CD here for the first time. Due to a damaged master tape of the original mix, the album had been remixed in stereo in […]
Townes Van Zandt – TEXAS RAIN – The Texas Hill Country Recordings – Remastered Expanded Edition – Deluxe gatefold sleevePac CD edition At the turn of the ‘90s, Townes Van Zandt began recording a series of duets in Texas with a bunch of longtime admirers that included Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Jerry Jeff Walker, Freddy […]
“In my years of audiophilia I have crossed swords with my brother many times regarding that which is real, and not real, in terms of differeces heard and imagined. He holds a Masters Degree in Education, self taught himself regarding computers, enough to become the MIS Director for a school system, and early in life […]
Black Rainbow The first label variation on which Beatles records were pressed was the classic black label with a rainbow color band. This variation of the Black Rainbow label was first issued in the early sixties (T-6018) and has a glossy label. The perimeter print shows the word CANADA without brackets. This label variation was […]
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