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Friday, 28 February 2025
Hi-Fi Lessons (2): Useful Numbers
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You will wind up learning a bunch of numbers by heart: The sensitivity of your speakers in dB / m at 1 watt The diameter of your speakers...
Tuesday, 25 February 2025
Hi-Fi Lessons (1)
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My hi-fi journey began when I realised that some music seemed to be coming from a corner on the upper right hand wall rather than from betwe...
Friday, 21 February 2025
Timeless Albums
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What makes a "Timeless" album? When you play it, you enjoy it, it speaks to you, and there's no nostalgia involved. It seems i...
Tuesday, 18 February 2025
JD Vance to Europe: You Have Been Served
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My old heart fluttered when I read JD Vance's speech to the Munich Security Conference. You can find a transcript here . tl:dr As far as...
Friday, 14 February 2025
Learning Electric Guitar: Let's Talk About Ability
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Playing classical music, the difference between me (or better, someone who can actually play with their right-hand fingers) and the latest c...
Tuesday, 11 February 2025
Learning Electric Guitar: So Now Let's Make Some Music
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The classical guys are trained to play the notes other people wrote. That's how classical music works now - though in the past, the comp...
Friday, 7 February 2025
Learning Electric Guitar: Welcome to Tone.
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Classical players do not have to deal with tone. Almost all acoustic guitars of the same size with the same strings sound almost the same. P...
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