Aural Robert

Some funky strains from Craft Recordings & Vinyl Me, Please

Robert Baird Jan 03, 2023 First Published: Jan 03, 2023

It's time to address a snarky rumor, a persistent urban legend surrounding music fans who care about listening in the highest quality sound possible. It's been posited from time to time that quality gear and heavy, quiet LP pressings go better with a certain intoxicantthat you have to get high to truly have the fullest possible listening experience.

Aural Robert

The Tipitina's Record Club

Robert Baird Nov 08, 2022 First Published: Nov 08, 2022

Professor Longhair in his living room! Etta Jamesliveat Tipitina's!! Previously unknown James Booker recordings!!! All of it unreleased and unheard???

In the music world, spare time spurred by COVID closures led to many good ideas and side projects. Few have been better than Tipitina's Record Club (TRC).

As We See It Aural Robert Historical

Aural Robert #1

Robert Baird Jun 05, 2005 First Published: Jan 05, 1997

Please let me explain. Because I've never been especially adept at making lifelong commitments and irrevocable decisions, when it came to naming this new column, Managing Editor Debbie Starr and I decided that we would gather the passionate (and supremely efficient) minds of the Stereophile production staff, add a near–life-threatening amount of margaritas, and put the question to them.

Aural Robert Music and Recording Features

A Year to Remember

Robert Baird Dec 16, 2001 First Published: Dec 16, 2001

As I sit down to write a year's-end musical retrospective, I feel that the old column-writing joke between Stereophile editor John Atkinson and myself about first needing a subject and, second, needing it to make sense, will not be a problem this time out. For me, the music and almost everything else about 2001 have been dwarfed in importance by the mayhem wreaked on New York on September 11.