Profile Pieces


  • Bassist Ron Carter: 60 Years of Jazz – and Counting

    This article first appeared in PS Audio’s Copper Magazine. According to reliable sources, bassist Ron Carter has well over 2,000 recording credits. On the majority of those he’s a sideman for other people’s albums, but it’s still a staggering sign of esteem that hundreds of the top musicians in jazz pick up the phone and call him…

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  • Tri-Cell’s new mega-showroom is a feast for the eyes and ears

    “I’m a headbanger,” Tri-Cell Enterprises’s Vince Scalzitti responds when I ask him what kind of music he likes.

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  • Audio by Mark Jones did what??

    My first thought when I’d heard that retailer Audio by Mark Jones had relocated from Mark’s home to an actual brick-and-mortar establishment was, “Really? In our day and age?”.

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  • One on One with Vincent Bélanger, cellist virtuoso

    They don’t come more musical family than the spanning-four-generations family of 42-year-old cellist Vincent Bélanger. His relatives’ musical accomplishments are too many to be enumerated here, but suffice to say that the musical career that Vincent chose for himself, and the success he achieved in it, are not uncharacteristic of his lineage. Among his own…

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  • My (factory) trip to (the) MOON by Simaudio

    I love meeting the top designers at an audiophile-catering audio company because they’re always so passionate about what they do. Why else would they be involved in perfectionist audio, if not to fulfill a burning nerdy-esque desire to create an audio product people will hopefully love? Dominique Poupart, Product Manager at MOON by Simaudio, is…

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