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  • MICHEL PETRUCCIANI: THE MONTREUX YEARS

    BMG & THE MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES THE NEXT RELEASE IN THE MONTREUX YEARS SERIES.ย  A COLLECTION OF MICHEL PETRUCCIANIโ€™S FINEST PERFORMANCES AT THE MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL FROM 1990 โ€“ 1998. PRE-ORDER LONDON, WEDNESDAY MARCH 1, 2023 โ€“ BMG and The Montreux Jazz Festival have today announced the release of โ€œMichel Petrucciani: The Montreux Yearsโ€…

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  • PACO DE LUCรA: THE MONTREUX YEARS

    A SHOWCASE OF PACO DE LUCรAโ€™S MOST MESMERISING MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL LIVE PERFORMANCES BETWEEN 1984 to 2012 PLUS LINER NOTES FROM JOHN MCLAUGHLIN & RARE PHOTOS OF PACO DE LUCรAโ€™S TIME AT MONTREUX PRE-ORDER HERE. London Wednesday 18 January 2023 โ€“ BMG today announces the next instalment in The Montreux Years series with โ€œPaco De…

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  • Treasures from the Vinyl Vault, Part 3

    Welcome to my series Treasures from the Vinyl Vault. In it, I will feature select gems from my approximately 12,000 ever-growing vinyl collection, accumulated over a 45-year period and counting.

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  • Interview with an audio trailblazer: Norman Varney, on room acoustics, Pt 1

    At High End Munich, Norman Varney of A/V RoomService boldly claims most audiophiles hear less than half their systemโ€™s potentialโ€”blaming neglected acoustics, misguided retailers, and habitual upgrade cycles chasing flaws room treatment could fix.

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  • MoFiโ€™s 40th Anniversary Edition of Michael Jacksonโ€™s Thriller REVIEWED

    MoFiโ€™s 40th anniversary One-Step reissue of Michael Jacksonโ€™s Thriller stuns with unmatched clarity, staging, and vocal presenceโ€”so revelatory it feels like a remix, yet itโ€™s the original master unveiled as never before.

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  • MoFiโ€™s Alan Parsons Projectโ€™s Eye In The Sky – a review and a word about the MoFi controversy

    Despite MoFiโ€™s DSD controversy, Claude Lemaire finds their Eye in the Sky 45 rpm remaster a revelationโ€”eclipsing his Canadian first press with staggering dynamics, transparency, and an analog warmth that challenges purist assumptions.

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  • CHICK COREA: THE MONTREUX YEARS

    THE MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL & BMG ANNOUNCE THE NEXT RELEASE IN THE MONTREUX YEARS SERIES RELIVE THE 23 TIME GRAMMY AWARD WINNERโ€™S PERFORMANCES AT MONTREUX FROM 1981 โ€“ 2010 PRE-ORDER CHICK COREA: THE MONTREUX YEARS HERE LONDON 17 AUGUST 2022 โ€“ Montreux Jazz Festival and BMG today announce the next installment in The Montreux Years…

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  • An Interview with Andrรฉ Perry, legendary record producer and founder of the fabled Le Studio, Part 2

    Founder of Le Studio, the iconic, pop-culture defining music studio tucked in the Canadian wilderness, Andrรฉ Perry worked with some of the biggest artists in the biz. Did he have any favourites?

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  • Gilles goes to High End Munich 2022โ€”an intro

    Reporting from High End Munich 2022, Gilles Laferriรจre reflects on dream systems, surprising entry-level performance, and passionate interviewsโ€”while urging exhibitors to ditch the arrogance and set up their rooms right.

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  • Putting an end to the audio cable debate! Part 4

    In Part 4 of this series, Gilles Laferriรจre defends high-end audio cabling against skeptics, citing top studios and engineersโ€”like Bob Ludwig and Kevin Grayโ€”who rely on premium cables to achieve superior sound quality.

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  • Why 24-bit doesnโ€™t matter, and does

    After years of AB tests and blind comparisons, Jonson Lee finds that while 24-bit playback offers little audible advantage over 16-bit, high-res still mattersโ€”mainly due to improved recording techniques and mastering quality.

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  • Digitizing our music? โ€œIt is useless to resist!โ€

    As music lovers, we strive for the best possible sound quality.ย  They say all roads lead to Rome, but we still need to contend with our needs, our path, our budget, and the time available to us to get there.ย Across my next columns, like a travel guide, I will try to recommend memorable places for…

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  • The listener โ€” creative artist?

    The High-Fidelity Scene Recording technology revolutionized how music is produced, played, and experienced. From the perspective of experiencing it, to the old model of attending a live concert was added the option of listening to a recorded performance. In this new model, the listenerโ€™s role and situation were profoundly transformed; with recordings, listening has been…

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