A few examples from our extensive vintage JBL image archive. Neil / editor =============
Year: 2022
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Erica Jeal writes: The Capuçon brothers, violinist Renaud and cellist Gautier, plus others including cellist Clemens Hagen make this lineup for Brahms’ two glorious string sextets something of a dream team. These recordings were made at last year’s Aix-en-Provence Easter festival, but there’s little bar the odd swoopy slide to remind us that it’s not […]
“As Nicholas Roeg’s film The Man Who Fell To Earth is screened across Britain next week, David Gritten revisits the bold imaginative film – and David Bowie, its orange-haired, alabaster star.” MORE
Billy Bragg writes as follows: Artists such as Bruce Springsteen recognised Seeger embodied the great struggles for civil rights – and saw him as a touchstone. Continue HERE
Has anyone compared both of these integrateds? I own the 505UX and like it a lot but am looking for more solid state slam & punch. I actually borrowed the 550AX Class A amp for 1 month about a year before I purchased the 505UX. The only thing I remember about the 550AX was […]
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The Guardian writes ….. The great Mississippi-born blues singer and guitarist BB King, was christened Riley B King in 1925, which explains the comic title of this authoritative British documentary on his long, impressive career. BB bore with dignity his …….. MORE
“Unless you have ever had to lift one, the piano is just about the perfect instrument. A machine for hitting tuned strings with soft hammers, pedals for expression, and not much else. Since its invention in the 18th century, it has changed relatively little – until now.” MORE
Victor L. Schermer writes: Benny Golson’s timeless ballad, “I Remember Clifford” is but one measure of the reverence and love with which Clifford Brown was regarded by musicians, friends, family, and fans. The affection in which he was held during his lifetime was made all the more poignant by his untimely death at the […]
Gentlemen – what can you tell me about this legendary engineer and was he the guy that built the RM1 preamp? Yes, he is the designer of that legendary unit He struck me as seriously grumpy No way does he want to supply the European market with anything, apparently. He has a most interesting […]
The Leto 1.5 Preamp upgrade includes 2 important features; a built-in headphone amp and a Unity Gain identifier on the volume control for home theater. This upgrade is designed for Audiophiles who enjoy a great 2 channel stereo system, as well as, headphones and surround sound for home theater. George Counnas, President of Zesto […]
When Beethoven wrote his Symphony No 1, he was young and at the height of his powers as both a pianist and a composer of chamber music, but he had also lived more than half his life. This symphony couldn’t have been written by Mozart, that’s for sure, but what about Haydn? I guess you’d […]
Brett Anderson believes that Suede’s debut album, winner of the Mercury Music Prize in 1993, probably has more cultural resonance than any other of their albums, as a pre-cursor to Britpop and a supplanter of grunge. It is also home to four ground-breaking singles. This deluxe edition features the album; the b-sides; a CD of […]
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Howard Popeck … It’s with considerable embarrassment that I recall both my musical ignorance and my inverse snobbery about musical styles. Styles that I neither understood nor wanted to understand, for no good reason at all in the early days of Subjective Audio. I call those days my irrational time. They’ve been a recurring event […]
Neil Young’s marvellously idiosyncratic autobiography, Waging Heavy Peace, rummages through his 50-year career – and offered its writer a relief from music MORE