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  • Best Audio Systems For $30,000: World-Class Sound From Kii, Melco, EAR, Cardas, Pro-Ject

    Ed Stone of Executive Stereo has led an interesting life, particularly from an audio perspective. Letโ€™s start with that nameโ€”Ed Stone. It sounds rock โ€˜nโ€™ roll verging on bad-ass, like a made-up rock star alias. Except it isnโ€™t, as Ed confirmed with me during our interview over the phone, in which he jokingly added, โ€œAt…

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  • MoFiโ€™s In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida and Truth reviewed, Pt 2

    If you were oblivious to Beckโ€™s debut, you could think it was some long-lost Zeppelin material.

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  • The night Jeff Beck was there for me

    โ€œThat old funny-shaped bit of wood is still staring me in the face every day saying โ€˜Come on, you havenโ€™t started yet!โ€™ Itโ€™s infinite.โ€ โ€“ Jeff Beck ย  A rockโ€™nโ€™roll lifetime ago as a college student, before journalism chose me, I was parking cars in a gravel lot in a seamy section of Montreal, behind…

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  • A Tribute to the First Lady of Love, Donna Summer (1948-2012), Queen of Disco, Pt 2

    Read Part 1 here โ€œOnce upon a time, there was a girlโ€โ€ฆ and once upon a time there was a singer named Donna Summer and a writer-producer duo by the name of Moroder-Bellotte who, working together, and having already pushed the boundaries of the disco genre, would do so again, this time with the album…

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