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A Brief History of the Lost
Recording of February 2012: <I>Dusty in Memphis</I>
Atlantic/Analogue Productions APP 8214-45 (two 45rpm LPs). 1969/2011. Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd, Arif Mardin, prods.; Ed Kollis, eng.; Kevin Gray, 45rpm mastering. AAA. TT: 76:40
Performance *****
Sonics *****
Coaxing a singer to "stretch" always sounds like a good idea—that is, until the singer is standing in the same recording booth used by Aretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett, and suddenly her confidence, never brimming to start with, drops through the floor and she can't or won't sing a note.
Pop Music.
Here at the Stereophile office, we listen to lots of different tunes ranging from Bach to Fucked Up to Sylvester, but in the Bitran/Mejias cubicle, t
All Tape Guide
I’ve discussed my (apparently controversial) attraction to cassettes.
World's Largest Collection of Vintage Audio?
Wow, look at all the pretty boxes.
Maybe I'll finally find that Nakamichi CD-1 cassette deck I've been waiting for.
Note: As you'll see in the comments section, Stereophile's John Marks suspects something here is fishy.
2011 Records To Die For
Actually, I think it's more about dying without the stuff.
Van den Hul The Valley Interconnect Cable Sweepstakes
These cables are distributed in North America by Bluebird Music and according to Van den Hul, The Valley interconnect cables are a twisted pair balanced cable with two 21 strand conductors and a double braided shield.
Van den Hul's new True Transmission Technology cables, known as 3T for short, "present an entirely new paradigm to the cable world offering breakthrough performance at very reasonable prices.
KEF's The Blade in Action
Corea-Gomez-Motian, <I>Further Explorations</I>
It's a two-disc set, taken from two weeks of sessions at the Blue Note in Greenwich Village (one of which I raved over in this space at the time, back in May 2010).
Threshold FET Nine/e preamplifier
Recordings of April 1988: The First Colossus Recordings
Beethoven: Sonata No.32, Op.111; Sonata No.21, Op.53 ("Waldstein")Tibor Szasz, piano
Bainbridge BCD-6275 (CD). Leo de Gar Kulka, eng. & prod. DDD. TT: 58:03
Mozart: Piano Concerto No.13, K.415; Overture to Lucio Silla, K.135
Jeremy Menuhin, piano; George Cleve, 1987 Midsummer Mozart Festival Orchestra
Bainbridge BCD-6273 (CD). Leo de Gar Kulka, eng. & prod. DDD.
Challenges and Rewards
The Dirty Three: <i>Toward the Low Sun</i>
The Dirty Three (Mick Turner on guitars, Warren Ellis on violin, and Jim White on drums) has always shown a deep respect and admiration for those magical spaces in between—between the notes, between one another, between the music and the listener.
Jessie Baylin
To Like or Not to Like: <i>Stereophile</i> on Facebook
Regular updates began in mid-November 2010. At this time, we had approximately 290 regular monthly users.
Etta James
The 2012 Consumer Electronics Show: A Better Way?
It looks sort of pretty, doesn't it?
Imagine how much prettier it would be if it were real. Imagine again how much prettier it would be if those bridges and roads and towers weren't there at all.
Every time I stepped from the slow elevator and onto the casino floor at Harrah's, where Stereophile's editors spent their sleepless nights, my hatred for Las Vegas was revitalized. This was like some kind of bad joke, some kind of post-modern torture. Oh, god, I am still here.