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  • Booker T. & The M.G.’s: a Tribute to the Beatles
    Booker T. & The M.G.’s: a Tribute to the Beatles

    Discovering Booker T. & the M.G.’s McLemore Avenue as a Beatles-ignorant 12-year-old, Wayne E. Goins recalls how the soul-streaked tribute became a personal classic—long before he realized it echoed Abbey Road note for note.

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  • A family affair: great new jazz by Pat Metheny Group’s Lyle Mays and Aubrey Johnson
    A family affair: great new jazz by Pat Metheny Group’s Lyle Mays and Aubrey Johnson

    Lyle Mays, the introspective sonic architect of the Pat Metheny Group, gets a fitting farewell in Eberhard—a sweeping, posthumous masterwork co-produced with his niece, Aubrey Johnson, whose voice helps carry Mays’s final vision home.

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  • No more cds?
    No more cds?

    Faced with underwhelming SACD and BD playback, Tom Gibbs ditches discs for a digital setup that rips and streams native DSD—revealing astonishing sound quality and a future where optical drives are obsolete.

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  • Music streaming — are we at the beginning of the end?
    Music streaming — are we at the beginning of the end?

    As Apple, Amazon, and Spotify shift to lossless audio, smaller services like Tidal and Qobuz may face extinction. Mario St-Laurent warns this seismic change risks squeezing out artist royalties and playback freedom in favor of big-tech ecosystems.

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  • Do Terminators Dream of Mechanical-Sounding Audio?
    Do Terminators Dream of Mechanical-Sounding Audio?

    A T-800 might settle for bad sound, but as this witty essay makes clear, music is meant to stir human emotion—not metallic circuits. Good audio connects us; bad audio shuts us down.

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