Hi Guys: Following on from the thread “Balance control – a necessary evil or just sensible” Are tone controls a necessary evil. Having recently acquired and cleaned up and old QUAD 34 preamp I have become re-acquainted with tone control and filter functionality. I regularly listen to historic recordings, older LP’s and CD transcriptions from […]
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All I care about is a great sounding record. I’m just confused why people charge, and people pay for that matter, more for a record just because it’s a 1st press. Does it sound better or is it just more collectible? This same guy also charged more for a Mono version… doesn’t that not sound […]
Imagine how it must feel to get something so right that there are no flaws, no deviation from expectations, nothing but pure unadulterated perfection. Is it even possible? Is perfection a myth? Imagine for a moment Beethoven’s original score of his magnificent 9th symphony. Here’s what it looks like: Perfection would seem to be following […]
When personal tragedy struck Roland Orzabal, he found solace returning to a band with its own fractious history. Now, with their first album in 17 years, he and Curt Smith say they’ve come full circle Some years ago, Curt Smith, the singer and songwriter best known as one half of Tears for Fears, found himself […]
Killian Fox writes: Audiophile Pete Hutchison has gone to extraordinary lengths to reissue golden era classical recordings in their purest form. He talks to Killian Fox about the price of perfection, the ‘digital con’, and the sound of a truly analogue recording Please click HERE to continue
For most people, amplification of the musical signal means just that. Taking the original signal as generated by the source and making that signal bigger. Only, that’s not what happens. In the same way the energy from your leg pressing a gas pedal is not actually amplified in the movement of an automobile, it would be more […]
Editor’s introduction: One of the pleasures of being involved with this site is the quality of response, in terms of careful thinking and everything related to it that we receive from readers leaving comments. It’s gratifying that in these time-tight times (oh, I like that) a person we’ve never met would want to contribute. After […]
Nike Wagner’s family tree includes both Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt. The author and festival director talked with DW about the intriguing and at times paradoxical legacy of Franz Liszt. MORE
https://www.gramophone.co.uk/other/article/this-week-s-essential-new-classical-albums-js-bach-liszt-cpe-bach-jommelli
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/sep/26/beatles-final-days-get-back-let-it-be-john-harris-peter-jackson
Nick Drake, the singer-songwriter who died 40 years ago, was not recognised in his lifetime. But his melancholy legend does his music a disservice, argues Alan Connor “It may surprise you to hear that during the last few weeks, I’ve been extraordinarily happy with life and I haven’t a clue why. It seems that Cambridge […]
We are told: ‘Some Product’ was a compilation of 1976-1978 Sex Pistols radio interviews released as an album in July 1979. This reissue has been expanded into a 3CD set by including the BBC Radio 1 “Rock On” interview from 1977 (CD2) and two further previously unreleased Radio Forth & Radio Metro interviews from 1977 […]
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They tell us ….. LIVE 1987 BROADCAST RECORDING FROM EX-FLOYD MAN The driving force behind some of the best-selling and critically-acclaimed records in history, by 1987 Rogers Waters had long since parted ways with his Pink Floyd cohorts. Having left the group on acrimonious terms – not helped by the controversies surrounding The Final […]