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Greg Lake & ELP: Welcome Back to the Hi-Fi Show That Never Ends

Mike Mettler | Sep 07, 2016 | 0 comments

Emerson, Lake & Palmer were always at the forefront of progressive music, and being original has been a hallmark of ELP ever since their adventurous self-titled 1970 debut. Now, the band’s sonic legacy has been distilled into a nice three-disc collection, The Anthology (Manticore/BMG), which also serves as a 39-track sampler of a full-bore catalog reissue series, which recently commenced with three two-discs sets, each complete with outtakes and bonus cuts, for 1970’s Emerson, Lake & Palmer, 1971’s Tarkus, and 1971’s Pictures From an Exhibition. I Skyped with ELP vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Greg Lake, 68, across The Pond to discuss how effectively ELP utilized the stereo soundfield, why he prefers the analog format, and what the ultimate key is to making good records. Ooh, what a Lucky Man he still is.

Spatial Audio File

Ground Control to Spatial Audio

Mike Mettler | Jun 17, 2022 | 0 comments

As the lead track for this week’s Spatial Audio

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File is very much a cosmic experience by its very nature, it served as a nice parallel for how truly great Atmos mixes can put you in a different listening space altogether—one that’s fully enveloping and takes you on a journey outside of your normal, day-to-day environmental confines. Frankly, any time music can take you somewhere you usually aren’t is something that’s a-ok in my book. tracks has been quite thoroughly test-driven aurally via personal deep-dive listening sessions on both my home system and headphones alike. It’s hardly difficult to tell by now that I quite enjoy engaging with the very best offerings of Made for Spatial Audio and Dolby Atmos tracks found within the ever-enlarging Apple Music library in any listening experience locale I can. cool and universally immersive tracks are. . .

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Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll Mike Mettler | May 15, 2020 | 1 comments

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who passed away at age 90 in 2017, as one cantankerously acrimonious fellow, but after revisiting Taylor Hackford's astute 1987 documentary Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll, now available on Blu-ray for the first time via Shout Select, I'm reminded of how captivating, creative, and downright business-savvy the pioneering, guitar-playing singer/ songwriter actually was.

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Stream On

Hands On with Qobuz Hi-Res Music Streaming Mike Mettler | Nov 23, 2018 | 9 comments

Qobuz makes a play to own the U.S. hi-res music streaming market — but does it have the goods to pull it off?

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Stream On

Hands On: Does Amazon Music HD Make the Grade? Mike Mettler | Dec 23, 2019 | 5 comments

Amazon Music HD came out of the gate with hi-res guns a-blazing. Can the online retail giant deliver on the level of quality their customers have come to expect from its other services?

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Stream On

Hands On: Roon Music Playback, Management System Mike Mettler | Mar 22, 2019 | 1 comments

Once you let Roon manage your digital audio playback, your multizone listening aspirations will be fulfilled.

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Other Tech

HDTV: Full Throttle Mike Mettler | Oct 18, 2004 | 0 comments

ANNOUNCER Tonight on American Chopper , a journalist explains HDTV to the Teutels in plain language.

CUT TO author MIKE METTLER in the Orange County Choppers office, flanked by PAUL TEUTEL SR. and PAUL TEUTEL JR.

The S&V Interview

He's a Hi-Res Star: Engineer Steve Hoffman on Remastering Four Deep Purple Classics

Mike Mettler | Jan 29, 2014 | 7 comments

“I want to hear what the band heard during playback in the studio. And I want to respect the sound that the engineers and producers tried so hard to capture.” It’s a mantra engineer Steve Hoffman follows whenever he remasters classic, iconic albums, and perhaps those words should be etched between the monitors perched above the mixing consoles in every mastering studio across the globe. One recent labor of reissued love is near and dear to Hoffman's audiophile heart – namely, The Audio Fidelity Collection limited-edition box set that houses four classic Deep Purple albums he remastered: In Rock (1970), Fireball (1971), Machine Head (1972), and Who Do We Think We Are (1973).

The S&V Interview

Hello, It’s Todd Rundgren. Can We Still Be Hi-Res Friends?

Mike Mettler | Dec 23, 2015 | 0 comments

Restless creativity, thy name is Todd Rundgren. The always adventurous singer/songwriter/guitarist/producer found time in 2015 to not only release two albums of new music — the electro-melodic Global (Esoteric Antenna) and the even-more EDM-driven Runddans (Smalltown Supersound) — as well as embark on a few legs of a solo tour, but he also managed to write some material for and play on Ringo Starr's Postcards From Paradise (UMe) and be a part of the current touring incarnation of Ringo's All-Starr Band to boot. During a tour break, I called Rundgren, 67, at his Hawaiian homestead to discuss the differences between audience and artist expectations, the merits and demerits of vinyl, and his Beatles listening preferences. He saw the light, alright.

Music Disc Reviews

Hello, Mr. Radio

Mike Mettler | Dec 25, 2012 | 0 comments

“Jeff has incredible studio I.Q. Ask anyone who makes music: he’s one of the great record producers, period.” So says Tom Petty, and? if anyone should know, it’s him, having worked with Jeff Lynne as a producer on sonic blockbusters like his own Full Moon Fever and the Traveling Wilburys’ Volume? 1.

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