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“To create his distinctive guitar sound, Cipollina developed this one-of-a-kind amplifier stack. All of his guitars, including the one here, were wired with two pickups, one for bass and one for treble. The bass pickup fed into the two Standel bass amps on the bottom of the stack. Each Standel was equipped with two 15-inch […]
Live Evolution Lost: The 13th Floor Elevators Live at the Houston Music Theatre is the first ever release of the complete performance of the band?s legendary show from 18th February 1967 The trailblazing 13th Floor Elevators released the first ?psychedelic? rock album in America, transforming culture throughout the 1960s and beyond. Formed in late 1965 […]
The late Gary Moore was one of the finest and most respected guitarists of his generation. This show, recorded at London’s Bush Hall on 17th May 2007, was originally broadcast by Planet Rock radio. This is the first time the recording has been made available outside of this original broadcast. The concert features a number […]
REM’s promotional tour for their eighth album Out Of Time kicked off on 3rd March just a few days after Michael Stipe had finished producing Daisy Group’s debut Hum Of Life at John Keane studios, Athens, GA. Exactly one month later the band are in the KCRW-FM studios in Santa Monica to perform an intimate […]
Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces an hour of the very best organ music and performances, including Mozart in playful mood, Rachmaninov a la Bach, and a vivid and spectacular transcription of Saint-Saëns’s orchestral showpiece, Danse Macabre. Details HERE
Have you heard a difference between the DAC performance of the Benchmark USB DAC and the Benchmark DAC-1 preamp and if so, which one is superior? I have done this experiment on a number of occasions and have very rarely heard any difference at all. It might have been my imagination. And so it is […]
Here, Nick demonstrates the art of delicately “glass bead blasting” the CNC machined IKARUS integrated
Jim Connolly writes: Music lovers and vinyl enthusiasts are gathering for the UK’s seventh annual Record Store Day on Saturday. Despite many predictions of the demise of vinyl, it has never looked like disappearing. But who’s still buying? Here are eight groups that are still shopping for vinyl. The nostalgic collector Sonja Bredgaard is […]
From our archives: The 25th Anniversary Series is very limited high quality vinyl releases of some of the best Walter Trout catalogue released in special packaging. Each release is very limited to only 2,000 copies worldwide and produced on high quality 180g vinyl and a maximum of 20 minutes per side. These are a must […]
Posterity is cruelly haphazard towards composers. A lucky few geniuses are recognised in their own lifetime. Beethoven, Josquin, Wagner, Mozart, all entered posterity wearing their laurels, and they stayed there, serene and untouchable. Others are not so lucky. Some fine composers wait decades or even centuries after their death to be rediscovered, like Charpentier. Some […]
Merrill Reed Weiner writes: In the coming weeks, my brother, Lou Reed, will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo performer, an honor celebrating his incredible impact upon the world of music. Since his passing from liver disease in 2013, there have been many accolades, articles, and ruminations on […]
Paul McGowan Several days ago I promised I’d tell you how I connected the mystery subwoofer to the system and why. The subwoofer is a sealed box powered subwoofer I am auditioning from a local company and it is really an excellent sounding product, easy to seamlessly integrate into the system and as musical […]
Time for one of those long, boring semi-technical posts that no one here reads… As a few of you know, I bought a rare Kenwood 700M amplifier a few weeks ago on eBay. It arrived with a weak channel which was taken care of by replacing a bypass cap. Since then, I have gone through […]
There’s Spotify, Tidal, Qobuz, Vtuner and on and on. What are these services, how do they work, what are there differences? Mike in England is dying to find out from Paul.
The War Requiem challenges us to think about what it is we ask people to do when we send them to war, writes conductor Marin Alsop Please click HERE to continue
The perfect introduction to Brahms’s music, featuring recordings by Nelson Freire, Riccardo Chailly, Marin Alsop, Grigory Sokolov, Artemis Quartet, Emil Gilels, Julia Fischer, Itzhak Perlman, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and many more Dip in and out HERE
Would any owner of this be interested in sending us their observations about this machine in operation please? Thank. HP