PEARL JAM: Transmission Impossible (3CD)

Disc 1 1. Release 04:30 2.Improv. (You Tell Me)/Even Flow 06:01 3.Once 03:26 4.State of Love and Trust 03:43 5.Alive 06:26 6.Black 05:12 7.Deep 04:20 8.Jeremy 05:02 9.Why Go Home 03:25 10.Porch 07:05 11.Garden 06:12 12.Alive 04:42 13.Porch 03:49 14.Jeremy 04:51 15.State of Love and Trust 03:38 16.Baba O’Riley 03:55 RUN TIME: 75 Disc 2 […]

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BECOMING A SHREWDER HI-FI BUYER: Part 4

Those of you who know me personally probably know that I’m fascinated by the psychologies (or in simpler terms the brain processes) which guide people to make decisions in general and buying decisions in particular. Having made many seriously flawed commercial decisions (the demise of Subjective Audio being a case in point) I strive to […]

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THELONIOUS MONK: The Complete Quartet Columbia Studio Recordings (6CD)

After nearly a decade of historic, career-defining LPs for top jazz independent labels Blue Note, Prestige and Riverside from 1952 to 1961, piano colossus Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) arrived in 1962 at Columbia, the first and only major record label affiliation of his career. There he released six masterful, distinctive albums (all produced by Teo Macero) […]

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AUDIO INSIDER

DIRECT to DISC: I am sure some of you remember better than I but Sheffield and Crystal Clear records were the only labels that came to mind as I am writing this.

In yesterday’s post we mentioned a Sheffield Direct To Disc recording and several readers asked me just what that was.  It was the most direct method of recording possible before the advent of digital and interestingly enough it was a throwback to the original recording technique.  Perhaps a bit of history is in order. When […]

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THE BEATLES: Why was George Harrison so frustrated and unhappy with touring?

TB writes: During his time in the Beatles his frustration stemmed from the terrible sound systems the band was essentially forced to use when performing. In our current time we’re used to bands being their own amplifiers, mixing boards, speakers and so on. It wasn’t like that at all back in the 1960s. Bands then […]

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Ed Sheeran interview: ‘I don’t make music for critics’

Ed Sheeran, who has topped Radio 1Xtra’s power list, on breaking America, love triangles, and why Benedict Cumberbatch won’t dance for him. In a room at RAK studios –the famous northwest London hit factory founded by Seventies producer/writer Mickey Most – Ed Sheeran is unveiling his new album. It is late March and the singer-songwriter […]

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JEFF BUCKLEY: Live ‘92 (2CD)

  They tell us….. As of the spring of 1992, Jeff Buckley was focused on achieving success as a solo artist, and performed a diverse selection of songs in numerous small venues around New York. This remarkable broadcast was recorded for WFMU-FM that October, and features numerous covers, as well as material that would appear […]

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MERIDIAN AUDIO: 101b / 104 Tuner/ M1 Active Speakers

A article we found particularly interesting; we read it start to finish! Meridian Audio was established in 1977 by the designers Bob Stuart and Allen Boothroyd who had made their name with the Lecson ( http://www.lecson.co.uk/faq.html, http://www.thevintageknob.org/THEVAULT2/LECSON/LECSON.html 1974) and Orpheus (1975) range of amplifiers. Bob Stuart has a background of psychoacoustics and electronic engineering while […]

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