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Doug Adams and Kirk McElhearn
Doug Adams and Kirk McElhearn discuss music and musicians, and how we listen to music, whether it be analog or digital, downloaded or streamed, audio, or video.
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Oct 12, 2022 • 38min
Episode #241: Geoff Edgers on Searching for the Perfect Sound
In a long Washington Post article, Geoff Edgers goes in search of perfect sounding vinyl records.
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Show notes:
The Search for the Perfect Sound
Better Records
The Electric Recording Company
Craft Recordings
Intervention Records
Plangent Process
Our next tracks:
The Beatles: A Hard Day's Night
Herbie Hancock: Future Shock
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Sep 28, 2022 • 27min
Episode #240: There's No Old Music Anymore
Music no longer sounds like it comes from a specific time. Old music sounds new these days.
Music no longer sounds like it comes from a specific time. Old music sounds new these days.
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Show notes:
Running Up That Hill
Episode #201 - Kurt Andersen on Why Music Hasn't Changed in Decades
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Lou Reed: I`m So Free: The 1971 RCA Demos
Steel Pulse: Tribute to the Martyrs
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Sep 14, 2022 • 42min
Episode #239 - Immersive Music
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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Guest: Chris Connaker
Show notes:
Chris Connaker's articles on immersive audio
Episodes with Chris Connaker
Episode #214 - Chris Connaker on Music with Dolby Atmos and Spatial Audio
MoFi on the Steve Hoffman Music Forums
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The Capture
Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years
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Jul 20, 2022 • 41sec
The Summer Interregnum
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).Support The Next Track

Jul 6, 2022 • 31min
Episode #238 - The Fade
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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Show notes:
Fade (audio engineering)
A Little Bit Softer Now, a Little Bit Softer Now… The sad, gradual decline of the fade-out in popular music.
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony no. 45, "Farewell" - Finale
Arvo Pärt: Tabula Rasa
Steve Reich: Tehillim
What Ever Happened To The Pop Song Fade-Out?
Episode #48 – Musician Dave Harrington of DARKSIDE and the Dave Harrington Group on Music Between Genres
Taper's Choice on archive.org
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Taper's Choice
Paul Leary: The History of Dogs, Revisited
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Jun 20, 2022 • 42min
Episode #237 - Sid Smith on Robert Fripp's Exposures
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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Show notes:
Sid Smith: In the Court of Crimson King
Exposures
Exposures 2-disc version
Rolling Stone: 100 Greatest Guitarists
Our next tracks:
No next track picks this episode; the entire box set, or the 2-disc version, will keep you going for a while.
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Jun 1, 2022 • 28min
Episode #236 - Update on Apple's Media Apps
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.
"I think we're post digital."
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Show notes:
I decided to not include the screenshot.
KEF LSX Wireless Music System
The ugly truth behind hi-fi's growing infatuation with nostalgia
KEF Q350 Bookshelf Speakers
Take Control of macOS Media Apps (Kirk's book)
Primephonic
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Robert Fripp: Exposures
Bonnie Raitt: Green Light
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May 23, 2022 • 31min
Episode #235 - 1973
Doug has a theory: in 1973 there was a schism in popular music.
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Show notes:
1973 in Music (Wikipedia)
1973 Album Releases
Rock Music History: 1973
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Fontaines D.C: Skinty Fia
The Who: Quadrophenia
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May 4, 2022 • 29min
Episode #234 - Musical Nostalgia
Doug bought a turntable, and we discuss musical nostalgia.
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Show notes:
Pioneer DJ PLX-500 turntable
Primaphone Cabinet Grand gramophone
Episode #54 – Guitarist Woody Mann Talks about His Documentary on the Life of Rev. Gary Davis
Never-Before-Heard Music By Son House ‘Forever On My Mind’ Drops March 18
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Son House: Forever on My Mind
Rod Stewart: Every Picture Tells a Story
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Apr 20, 2022 • 29min
Episode #233 - The End of the Sixties
No album better marks the transition from the sixties from the seventies than the Rolling Stones' Let it Bleed.
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Show notes:
Let it Bleed
Rolling Store review by Greil Marcus
Grateful Dead, 9/3/77 Englishtown, NJ
Gimme Shelter (film)
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