Fantasy Music League, Group A: The Carpenters I love the Carpenters. Their beautifully crafted songs however, regrettably, remain deeply unfashionable, seemingly imprisoned forever within the impenetrable bunkers of ‘easy listening’ radio stations. Nonetheless, if you listen to ‘Singles 1969 – 1981’ (2005) on hybrid CD/SACD (produced for SACD by Richard Carpenter), it is a stunningly […]
Month: January 2022
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The legendary songwriter on Janis Joplin, being ‘the voice of cosmic America’ and Croz, his first solo album in 20 years. Paul Lester interviews: Hello David, how are you? I’m fine (1). I’m in California right now, out in the country, in a place called Santa Barbara. How was your recent solo gig? Great. I […]
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Not come across this before. No idea if I’ll like any of this – but I’ll give it a try. You can get to this site HERE
We are told: (Limited Edition 7CD Box set/rare,deleted,used) 1 copy only !!! Audio Remasterers: Alan Silverman; Bob Ludwig. While the Kinks are thought of as one of the major bands of the 1960s, die-hard fans know that Ray Davies continued writing intriguing, beautiful, and insightful tunes through the end of the millennium. This seven-CD collection […]
Just wanted to dispel a forum myth. I have used ATC speakers for about 5 years now. I have tried many amps with varying degrees of success. I currently use the Michell Alecto Monoblocks, which I am pretty happy with. This week a friend wanted to borrow my amps, so he loaned me his Nait […]
THE GUARDIAN: She’s gone from ringletted country artist to feminist role model and the world’s most charming pop star. As she returns with her catchiest material yet, she talks awards-ceremony etiquette, autobiographical lyrics and why she puts nice before naughty. In Manhattan’s chi-chi Sant Ambroeus restaurant, the pair of smartly dressed women at the next […]
If your thoughts could power music, what sound would they make? The BBC met programmer Adam Williams who, along with team members Robert Wollner and Alex Wakeman, created a program which uses a brainwave-sensing headset to power a musical composition. The Soul Filter was on show at Art Hack, an event organised by 3beards, a […]
Background music has been found to have beneficial, detrimental, or no effect on a variety of behavioral and psychological outcome measures. This article reports a meta-analysis that attempts to summarize the impact of background music. A global analysis shows a null effect, but a detailed examination of the studies that allow the calculation of effects […]
We get a new piece of audio gear and it sounds “stiff” unyielding and “new”. So we run it in and wait for a few weeks before passing final judgment. The question is asked all the time: what is breaking in, the equipment or me? The analytical side of us wants to scoff at this […]
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Paul McGowan writes: With yesterday’s announcement of the P20 Power Plant’s launch, inevitable questions fly. One that piqued my interest is “how could any device improve upon the pure output of a power generator?” It’s a great question and one that requires a bit of explanation. In yesterday’s post, I had offered a bit of history when […]
One of my all time favourite albums. It really does polarise opinions. Saw them twice in Manchester in the late 1960s and this not only left an indelible positive impression but made me very sympathetic to their idiosyncratic sound. Read a proper and full review HERE HP
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As mentioned at the tale end of my write up on the history of the Leak Trough-Line FM tuner, I felt I should do a companion piece on the sound quality of Leak Trough-Line tuners, well here it is. This was an interesting and challenging project to embark on as it is the first time […]