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Questions by Matej Isak, Mono & Stereo You and your name are the legend of it’s own in high-end audio. Where and how did all started for Mark Levinson? This is a long story, too long for now. Basically, I was a musician and enjoyed recording my teachers and friends. I wanted the sound to […]
ANDREW CLEMENTS “Seven years have passed since Paul Lewis’s last solo Schubert recording, and this latest collection coincides with his continuing series of Schubert recitals. It groups together the three sonatas of 1825 and 1826 – the earliest of them, in C major D840 just a two-movement torso, the others, in D D850 and G D894, perhaps […]
“Indian classical music is principally based on melody and rhythm, not on harmony, counterpoint, chords, modulation and the other basics of Western classical music. The system of Indian music known as Raga Sangeet can be traced back nearly two thousand years to its origin in the Vedic hymns of the Hindu temples, the fundamental […]
The more I get involved in the recording arts the more I become convinced simple is key. Yes, we can get a bit more intimate with close miking, and we can retrieve more detail but at what cost? Simple stereo miking done correctly has a magic to it. That magic I refer to seems to […]
One of my YouTube viewers writes: “Paul, love almost all your videos. but. I think TOTAL ABSORTION behind the speakers is crucial. Reflection behind the speakers is just noise. PERIOD. WORST CASE. A glass window in the imaging space. PERIOD. Sorry.” This is part of the old live-end vs. dead-end debate in rooms (the actual […]
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/25/frank-zappa-music-documentary-alex-winter
In 1962, at the tender age of 15, Geoff Emerick found himself in the studio with what soon and very meteorically would become the world’s most famous rock ‘n’ roll band. The musically inclined youth was hired at EMI Studios in London. “Two days after I started, The Beatles were recording ‘Love Me Do,’ ” […]
I started my hi-fi journey with a pair of these and have been very interested to revisit them for quite a while – I remember loving them. I’ve been holding off for either a boxed pair or a pair locally and in as close to mint condition as possible as they are just something I’d […]
We are told ….. I’ll Remember, an archival box set featuring the music of Taste, the Irish rock/blues band formed in the mid sixties that featured Rory Gallagher on guitar and vocals. The four disc set will feature both studio albums (1969′s Taste and the 1970 follow-up On The Boards) expanded with many alternate […]
Editorial note: We’ve no idea. We never met him. But we did sniff around on the Web and found this: Barry Moore, I’ve been reading extensively about the Beatles for a few years now. I definitely know more than the average …Answered March 8, 2015 According to Tony Barrow, who worked for The Beatles managing […]
4’33” has made him famous – or should that be notorious? – but listen to his actual music and you’ll hear that there’s a great deal more to John Cage than his ideas. John Cage. A wolf in sheep’s clothing. Not my aphorism, but the epithet of Michael Finnissy, a composer who worked with Cage […]
Two men are trying to save Indian folk music, one haunting song at a time. Andrew Buncombe joins them as they haul their microphones to the farthest reaches of the Thar desert. A father and his sons sit in the desert, barely looking at one another as their hardened fingers press on the dark teak […]
Rodney Chin, former Student of Musicology I’d like to think that Mozart would have enjoyed Chopin’s music; after all, it’s no secret that the latter held the former in the highest esteem, and Chopin was not in the habit of issuing compliments to others (and if he did, only grudgingly). However, he did genuinely enjoy […]
Audio-Technica has introduced two new wireless headphones in the shape of the ATH-S220BT and the ATH-M50xBT2. The Japanese company says the former: “offers exceptional audio reproduction with crystal-clear call clarity”. With a claimed 60-hour battery life and support so that a 10-minute charge will top the battery up by 3.5 hours, the ATH-S220BT also incorporates […]
The most fun you can have with 60 watts. An amplifier is the heart of any hi-fi system and ours – What Hi-Fi?’s ‘Best Stereo Amplifier’ two years running – is hugely entertaining. With those 60 watts of power comes 4 analogue, 3 digital and optional Bluetooth inputs so your connectivity is sorted too. Continues […]