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Sound & Vision's Wintertime Gift Guide
Chris Chiarella  |  Jan 05, 2025  |  First Published: Nov 25, 2024  | 
This season, there are a lot of ways to bring joy to A/V enthusiasts. Movies and TV shows on disc are a great start, so much so that they get their own separate guide, whereas here we take a look at and give a listen to the gear, accessories and music—particularly on vinyl—that are destined to bring a little warmth to the winter months.
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The Making of The Beatles' Let It Be and Peter Jackson's Get Back
Matt Hurwitz  |  Dec 03, 2021  | 
1968 was a busy year for The Beatles. They had traveled to India to study Transcendental Meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, launched their own record label, Apple, and spent months at EMI's studios at Abbey Road recording their mammoth double-album, The Beatles (aka The White Album). But even before that album was released, they were planning what would end up as their post-breakup album and film, Let It Be. That disc was recently reissued by Apple/Capitol/Universal in a super deluxe edition, remixed by Giles Martin and engineer Sam Okell, complete with previously-unreleased bonus tracks, and the film has now been given a reimagining by Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson, in the form of The Beatles: Get Back on the Disney+ streaming service.
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The Sound of Speed: MotoGP Racing and Audio-Technica Microphones
Mark Henninger  |  Jul 19, 2023  | 
The electrifying hum of motorcycles, the animated chatter from the paddock, the anticipatory hush in the pit lanes, and the unmistakable roars from the crowd - these are the exhilarating sounds of the Red Bull Grand Prix of the Americas MotoGP™ race. Sounds that are meticulously captured and delivered to racing fans worldwide, live and on-demand. And the real star behind the scenes? Audio-Technica microphones.
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“Now And Then – The Last Beatles Song” Documentary
Matt Hurwitz  |  Feb 09, 2024  |  First Published: Jan 31, 2024  | 
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On November 1, a day before the release of “Now and Then,” fans were treated to a special film, a 12-minute documentary titled Now and Then – The Last Beatles Song, directed by British filmmaker Oliver Murray. The film wonderfully mixes footage from the 1995 sessions (and more recent), intermingled with loads of great archival Beatles footage, all of it beautifully restored. And unlike so many rock documentaries, it is The Beatles themselves who walk us through the process, rather than a narrator type.

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