We are told …. Domino Records reissue John Cale’s classic live album ‘Fragments Of A Rainy Season’, featuring his revered interpretation of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ amongst many solo versions from his enduring catalogue and previously unreleased outtakes. ‘Fragments Of A Rainy Season’ was the first live John Cale album to feature him performing solo and […]
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We are told ….. If the Summer of 1967 was the Summer of Love, the Summer of 1966 set the stage for the musical revolution that was to come. Albums released during the season, like The Beatles’ Revolver and The Byrds’ Fifth Dimension, brilliantly blended the burgeoning influence of Eastern exoticism into the rock […]
Featured Jazz legends include Ella Fitzgerald, Marion Montgomery, Cleo Laine, Blossom Dearie, Sarah Vaughan, Nina Simone, Peggy Lee, Betty Carter, Amy Winehouse, Eartha Kitt and many more who can be seen from 1965 to 2008 on BBC treasures such as Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life, Show of the Week, Not […]
Professor Trevor Cox writes … In March, the Royal Society ran an “edit-a-thon”, to create and improve Wikipedia entries for female scientists and engineers. It got me thinking about who the past heroines of acoustics might be. But as I went through a list of historical figures, Fourier, Helmholtz, Lord Rayleigh, I found it difficult to think of a female example. Do […]
Classic live performance from Long Island’s Iconic Spit Club Includes the entire WLIR-FM broadcast from 1981 Digitally remastered for enhanced sound quality 1981 started so promisingly for iconic American rockers Blue Öyster Cult with the release of the acclaimed Fire Of Unknown Origin album in June, but the sudden departure of drummer Albert Bouchard had […]
Have you ever had a CD or CD/DVD player that will oscillate audibly, especially near the end of a disc? I have and I have contacted those in the know and the only thing I have been told is that the little magnetic disc clamp may be getting weak. I am not so sure.
When DC contaminates the AC power line what can you do? Add a DC blocker. Paul explains how these work and why they are effective. Watch Now
One of the ways we designers make good sounding amplifiers is to lightly limit the input frequency while at the same time extending its high-frequency response. That’s something that might seem counterintuitive but it works. For example, at the input of a power amplifier, I like to form a light low pass filter of around […]
Side 11. TEARS IN HEAVEN – Eric Clapton2. LAY DOWN SALLY – Eric Clapton with Vince Gill3. GREEN ONIONS – Booker T. with Steve Cropper, Keb’ Mo’, Blake Mills, Matt “Guitar” Murphy & Albert Lee Side 21. HEAVENLY BODIES – Kurt Rosenwinkel2. THIS TIME – Earl Klugh3. MIRABELLA – Earl Klugh4. GREAT BIG OLD […]
Slim Harpo – Buzzin’ The Blues – The Complete Slim Harpo Box 5-CD Boxed Set (LP-Size) with 104-page hardcover book 142 tracks – 410:05 min. The complete works of one of the masters of Louisiana ‘swamp blues’ and ‘swamp pop.’ Five CDs containing 142 tracks and a 104-page book with many rare photographs and illustrations. […]
Michael Lavorgna writes: This is really great news for anyone following the hi-res audio debate. The debate is simple; some people claim there is an audible difference between high resolution files and lower resolutions, and some people claim there isn’t. There have been a bunch of technical articles on the subject but up until now(ish), […]
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We are told ….. Ian Carr (21 April 1933 ? 25 February 2009) was a Scottish jazz musician, composer, writer, and educator. Carr performed and recorded with the Rendell-Carr quintet and jazz-rock band Nucleus, and was an associate professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Old Heartland is completely different to […]
PAUL McGOWAN Kevin in Wappinger Falls New York (wherever that is) asked me an interesting question recently. “Arnie Nudell popularized the line source loudspeaker design and many of his most revered speakers such as the Quantum Line Source, the IRS 1B, the IRS V, and the Genesis 1 (and apparently at least the two larger members […]
From the archives Garry Humphreys writes: Anne Naysmith, who has died after being hit by a lorry in Chiswick High Road, west London, has no Alan Bennett to write about her, as he did for Miss Shepherd, who camped on Bennett’s front drive and is immortalised in his play The Lady in the Van. […]
Steve Guttenberg writes: Ultimate high-end speakers are conceived with the same zeal Ferrari and Lamborghini apply to their no-holds-barred sports cars. Sales of ridiculously expensive and absurdly powerful cars are holding steady, and the same can be said for extreme, high-end speakers. Granted, there’s no practical reason for the existence of the new 450-horsepower Audi […]
We are told ….. Three legendary performances broadcast on the BBC Digitally remastered for greatly enhanced sound quality Background liners The March 1967 release of Hi Ho Silver Lining catapulted Jeff Beck to solo stardom, three months after he’d left the Yardbirds. He performed on three BBC radio broadcast sessions over the course of […]
MQA has everyone talking but what exactly is it? What’s its goals and how does it sound? Some suggest it’s the devil incarnate while others believe it’s a gift from heaven. What’s the truth? Watch Now Paul McGowan