Writings by Kirk McElhearn
Doug and Kirk discuss some new gear for working with audio, immersive audio, and Zoom.
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In a long Washington Post article, Geoff Edgers goes in search of perfect sounding vinyl records.
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Music no longer sounds like it comes from a specific time. Old music sounds new these days.
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Is it time for a new audio revolution? Immersive music may be the next big thing. Chris Connaker joins us to tell us about his 7.1.4 audio system.
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We’ve decided to take rest of the summer off, and we’ll be back in September. Enjoy your summer (or your winter, if you’re down under).
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Why do some songs fade out when they end? The brass band in the gazebo in the public park never faded out their songs.
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King Crimson scribe Sid Smith joins us to talk about the new Robert Fripp box set, Exposures, which covers Fripp’s years in New York City, from 1977 to 1983, around his Exposure album and his Frippertronics.
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We haven’t discussed Apple’s media apps for some time, so we decided to take a look at what has changed, and what hasn’t, and what probably never will. And we discuss audiophile nostalgia.
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Doug has a theory: in 1973 there was a schism in popular music.
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No album better marks the transition from the sixties from the seventies than the Rolling Stones’ Let it Bleed.
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