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Claude Lemaire revisits timeless summer songs, from Percy Faith’s orchestral “Theme from A Summer Place” to The Lovin’ Spoonful’s gritty “Summer in the City,” capturing carefree memories without fretting over sound quality.
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Writer Rudy Radelic recommends a dozen great-sounding albums to play at audio show exhibits. Exhibitors, are you paying attention?
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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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Jonson Lee explores how excessive dynamic compression is warping our musical experience, comparing classic and remastered waveforms to show how “bigger” sound often means less nuance—and why old CDs may offer sonic salvation.
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Copper Magazine’s Frank Doris recalls his first encounter with Genesis’s Selling England by the Pound in 1973 and hails Analogue Productions’ new 45 RPM reissue as the album’s most sonically revealing edition to date.
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Two years after downsizing seemed inevitable, Tom Gibbs finds himself retired, mortgage-free, and surrounded by two dream audio rooms—one digital, one analog—where Maggies, KLH Fives, and top-tier gear turn every listen into an event.
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MoFi’s 40th anniversary One-Step reissue of Michael Jackson’s Thriller stuns with unmatched clarity, staging, and vocal presence—so revelatory it feels like a remix, yet it’s the original master unveiled as never before.
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Revolver marked a turning point for the Beatles—and for fans like the author—where innocence gave way to innovation. Giles Martin’s 2022 remix reveals the album’s enduring brilliance with stunning clarity and dimension.
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In this revealing article, Jonson Lee explores how volume controls—digital or analog—inevitably compromise sound quality, ultimately concluding that even the best among them can’t compete with the clarity of having none at all.
