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Notes on sound, and the people chasing it
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Moving in Stereo: Why do audio fools fall in love?
Soundproofing is not acoustic treatment, the way Ryan Adams is not Bryan Adams. The never-ending build of a listening room, failing better.
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Audio Inferno: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love ‘Best Audiophile Voices Vol. 4’ Bass traps, butcher blocks and a Doberman named Lucca: how to make a small room sing without selling a kidney for the privilege. 11:00 -
Houses of Wax and Other Hits Vinyl resurgence, my ass. Digging through Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam and Budapest for the record you did not know you were looking for. 9:00 -
Ang himig ni Pepe Smith A farewell to Joey ‘Pepe’ Smith, father of Pinoy rock: Juan de la Cruz Band, the Jingle years, a shared film set, and the songs too hard to play now. 10:00 -
Even further adventures in hi-fi: Or ‘You zombie be born again, my friend’ Speakers heavy as a monolith, vinyl drops at six in the morning, and a Hong Kong audio show where Jeff Buckley never really died 8:00 -
Get Your Kicks On Route 666 Noel Gallagher on his first guitar, the Cure’s longest set, a reporter who mistook Fergie for Apl.de.ap: an album of crazy diamonds met along the way. 13:00 -
‘Rivo-lution’ no. 9 Rene Rivo is the Yoda of audio. The man behind Hyperaudio on hotrodding tube amps, tweaking Thorens turntables, and why vinyl never quite died. 4:00 -
Further adventures in hi-fi: Or ‘And he’s buying a stereo to heaven’ Feel the derision of audiophiles once they find out you owned a piece of Bose equipment at any point in your life. It’s like the Mark of Cain. 11:00 -
The filth, the fury, Makuhari The Sex Pistols at Summer Sonic in Chiba: four old punks who should have been dead by now, playing tight to a thousand trembling Japanese lambs. 13:00 -
The wild sleep chase Three in the morning, wide awake, counting sheep into the thousands. A record, a book, and the bakers’ radios arriving at last like a lullaby. 5:00 -
Catfights, jackasses and metaphysics at the 2003 MTV Europe Awards Awards night in Edinburgh: a Christina-versus-Kelly feud, Jackass mayhem, and Michael Stipe insisting rock isn’t dead yet. 13:00