Clark Johnsen, Author at Positive Feedback

From Clark Johnsen's Diary - America's Greatest Living Composer, George Walker, 96, R.I.P.

Clark Johnsen — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 19:15:23 +0000

The late George Walker was old school, a kindly gentleman with Southern-style manners and an immense musical talent that took many forms, most notably as composer and pianist. I was once honored to hear him perform a Beethoven sonata movement in his home on his own concert grand. It was grand! How I came to know Mr.... Read More »

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From Clark Johnsen's Diary - Sounding Out!

Clark Johnsen — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 05:52:52 +0000

Many PF readers will be as surprised by finding this as I was. It's properly academic (in the more pleasant sense of the word), but also very au courant with political and cultural thinking and teaching in American universities. For whatever that's worth. Now have at it. Their opening salvo: Sounding Out!/ is a weekly... Read More »

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The Early Annals of High-end Audio, Rediscovered

Clark Johnsen — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 07:07:16 +0000

Everyone takes the limits of their own vision for the limits of the world. – Arthur Schopenhauer DEDICATION To J. Gordon Holt and Harry Pearson, who regrettably missed out on beholding their own antecedents, which both would have so enjoyed reading. Our modern times have been blessed with a copious amount of writing about music reproduction.... Read More »

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From Clark Johnsen's Diaries: When Harry Met Clarkie, or, Harry Pearson, R.I.P.

Clark Johnsen — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 01:23:41 +0000

Only my oldest, dearest friends call me "Clarkie", so be careful – but it does make for a better title, so, yeah. / The author When I first met Harry it was on the lawn of the St. Tropez Hotel at a C.E.S. some years ago. But we had had a history that, in its... Read More »

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From Clark Johnsen's Diaries: The Polarity Problem Redux, Then Redux Again

Clark Johnsen — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 10:05:26 +0000

More than once this writer has been accused of having a single-track mind when it comes to talking audio. This view I must heartily confute: in fact he has three tracks. But the one that attracts attention foremost does concern polarity, also known as acoustic polarity, also under proper circumstances known as Absolute Polarity. On... Read More »

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