One of the reasons I wrote The Audiophile’s Guide was to help fix the biggest problem in high-end audio systems. The one most of us take for granted, yet never master. Setup. Sure, we all know the basics: approximately where to place the speakers, how to connect the kit, how to tame a lousy room. But basics […]
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Bundle includes two limited edtion live radio broadcasts, as follows: The Record Plant ’73 by Nick Gravenites and Blue Gravy featuring Paul Butterfield Nick “Gravy” Gravenites the acknowledged link and catylst between the sixties white blues boy scene of Chicago and the burgeoning acid/hippy happenings of San Francisco has a remarkable and imposing […]
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Since LPs are built around older technology do they actually sound best when played on the same vintage equipment as they were originally designed for? Watch Now
Following the past few day’s posts about amplifier efficiency, Class AB biasing, and Class A biasing, let’s wrap our little mini-series up with another topology most of us have not heard of, adaptive biasing. The promise of adaptive biasing is a best of both worlds scenario: the efficiency of a Class AB circuit with the performance of a […]
Dorian Lynskey writes: Thirty years ago this month, Dire Straits released their fifth album, Brothers in Arms. En route to becoming one of the best-selling albums of all time, it revolutionised the music industry. For the first time, an album sold more on compact disc than on vinyl and passed the 1m mark. Three years […]
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I’m wondering what people think is a good vintage preamp? I have a Mcintosh C40 in my office and I like that, although I don’t think it qualifies as vintage (c. ’92-’98). Downstairs I am building a more vintage system for the “pool room” (unfinished corner of my basement where the pool table is…the stereo […]
The entire original US TV and KLOL-FM, KWN-FM and MTV Broadcasts Covering live performances from The Beacon Theater (1974), The Summit (1976), The Forum (1980) and Burbank (1994). Professionally re-mastered with background liners and rare archival photos. This 7-disc set presents four historic broadcast performances by one of America’s most successful and best-loved bands, at […]
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jul/18/bill-frisell-trio-review-jazz-cafe-london
Si Hawkins: Just a few minutes into a perfectly good-natured chat with Justin Currie, I suddenly feel the need to make an embarrassing, tone-altering admission. Currie was, and soon will be again, the lead singer of Del Amitri, a band seemingly destined never to be hip, and an easy target for those of us who […]
Thomas Conrad (Stereophile) writes ….. I don’t remember the year, but I remember the moment when I first became intensely curious about Roy DuNann. It must have been about 1975, right after I moved to Seattle. I bought a Sonny Rollins LP called Way Out West, took it home, cued it up on my Thorens […]
Fiona Maddocks writes ….. Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto remains puzzlingly underplayed, a neoclassical masterpiece dating from 1931. The composer worried that, as a non-violinist, he wasn’t equipped to write idiomatically. It’s certainly fiercely hard, opening with big, strident chords and exploiting the instrument’s staccato brilliance. The inner movements, Arias I and II, are more song-like, mysterious […]
Three years in the making an Official box set of rarities and unheard material. It also documents the bands transition from RnB stalwarts in the beginning into the Pop world and ultimately on to more experimental sounds and lastly to become a type of blueprint for what was to become Led Zeppelin. Features the most […]
From the archives ….. Blue Note remains more than the shell of a name that other formerly legendary labels – Virgin, Island, Motown and EMI – have been reduced to according to Nick Hasted The jazz label has changed since its inception 75 years ago. But it hasn’t lost touch with its roots. Blue Note, […]
A 4CD, 34-track career retrospective set that examines the totality of Hancock’s work on the Columbia label, presented in a hardback book format case. CD1 and CD2 draw on the late 70s/early 80s work done with V.S.O.P, CD3 focuses more heavily on Hancock’s electric work and the final disc is represents the music of Hancock […]
From the archives ….. The British singer-songwriter talks to Francesca Ryan about her new album Sugaring Season, motherhood and cooking with her nose. MORE
World Party’s Karl Wallinger tells Graeme Thomson what kept him afloat after a devastating brain aneurysm. In 1997 World Party released a song called She’s the One. A simple, affecting piano ballad written by Karl Wallinger “in 10 minutes and recorded in about an hour”, it should have been a huge hit. And it […]
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jan/23/rolling-stone-magazine-culture-council-publication
LP 1: Spoonful / Evil (Is Going On) / Smokestack Lightnin’ / Don’t Mess With My Baby / How Many More Years / I’ve Been Abused / I Better Go Now / Forty Four / I Asked For Water (She Gave Me Gasoline) / My Life / Nature / Poor Boy / Mr. Airplane Man […]
Ray Davies says he is delighted to be in the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame as he tells the Hay Festival of his tempestuous times with The Kinks and how they were banned in America – and Wales Please click HERE to continue