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Diamond Dancer
Stephen Mejias  |  May 14, 2007  |  3 comments
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Diogenes: Digital Home for Experimental Music
Stephen Mejias  |  Aug 17, 2012  |  0 comments
Over at AudioStream, my man Michael Lavorgna mentions Diogenes: Digital Home for Experimental Music. I stumbled upon the site yesterday. Thinking that ML would love it, I forwarded the link to him immediately. I was right!

For the adventurous music lover who craves new, unusual sounds—stuff that might challenge, that might delight, and that will certainly expand your mind—and for the audiophile who primarily uses a computer as a source, Diogenes is an online heaven.

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Distance, Time, and Communication
Stephen Mejias  |  May 07, 2009  |  1 comments
At around eleven o'clock this morning, I was ready for a beer.
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Divine Ricochet at the Guggenheim
Stephen Mejias  |  Mar 28, 2012  |  0 comments
Divine Ricochet is a three-part music series made to accompany John Chamberlain: Choices, on view through May 13 at the Guggenheim Museum. The series takes its name from Chamberlain’s 1991 work, a large and colorful, mangled assortment of painted and chromium-plated steel.
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Do Audiophiles Like Music?
Stephen Mejias  |  Mar 23, 2011  |  3 comments
Forum member, “tmsorosk,” asks: “Do audiophiles like music?”

It seems a strange question with an obvious answer until you stop and think about it. So many conversations between audiophiles focus on gear and sound, but leave music—that thing which should fuel our passion—lost in the jet-black background.

Ever notice when you and your audiophile buddies get together the conversation is usually 90% equipment and sound, and 10% music? We have been building, tuning, and voicing these systems for decades. Shouldn't the talk be more about music now?

Do you agree? Disagree? Why? Share your thoughts in the forum.

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Do You Audyssey?
Stephen Mejias  |  Aug 20, 2010  |  0 comments
Audyssey, a company specializing in room equalization technologies (ask Kal), has launched a sweepstakes for fans of high-quality sound. There are some cool prizes, including a Marantz NR1601 slimline home theater receiver and an 8GB iPod Touch. To participate, become a fan of Audyssey on Facebook and fill out a short questionnaire. For complete details, click here.
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Doesn't Include Pumpkin
Stephen Mejias  |  Nov 22, 2006  |  0 comments
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
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Dollars and Sense
Stephen Mejias  |  Sep 07, 2006  |  3 comments
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Don't Do It Alone
Stephen Mejias  |  Dec 09, 2005  |  4 comments
I don't know how this works — I'm guessing it's just some sort of the usual, run-of-the-mill collective (un)conscious pinging internet magic — but if you take a look at the bottom of any one of the pages on the Stereophile website, you'll find a list of "Sponsored Links," seemingly appropriate to the page itself.
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Don't Forget, Remember to Pick Up Some Beer
Stephen Mejias  |  May 21, 2010  |  6 comments
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Don't Let The Rain Come Down
Stephen Mejias  |  Jun 18, 2009  |  0 comments
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Dope Body: Natural History
Stephen Mejias  |  May 24, 2012  |  3 comments
Dope Body’s Drag City debut, Natural History, was released earlier this week. It kills. You’ll read (I hope) in my July, August, and September “Entry Level” columns that I use the album to evaluate the rocking capabilities of the PSB Alpha B1, Polk RTi A3, Definitive Audio SM 45, and Tannoy Mercury V1 loudspeakers—all worthwhile choices.
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Doubts, Of Course
Stephen Mejias  |  May 15, 2008  |  2 comments
"I can't see anyone getting into analog without a record-cleaning machine."
—Michael Fremer, Stereophile, Vol.19 No.6, 1996
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Dreaming of Cleaning
Stephen Mejias  |  Feb 25, 2009  |  1 comments
If you visit our News Desk, you'll find my announcement of Michael Fremer's latest DVD, It's A Vinyl World, After All. While Michael offers an entertaining look into the world of vinyl manufacturing and provides tons of valuable information on record collecting, handling, cleaning, and storage, I did have one minor criticism:
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Dreams
Stephen Mejias  |  Nov 30, 2009  |  3 comments
I dreamed that I was back in Puerto Rico with the Vivian Girls. They asked me to work on a new song with them. We decided to set up a rehearsal space at my aunt’s beach house. It was taking us awhile to get the instruments properly set up, and Katy was becoming anxious, but I soothed her nerves with a stunning spread of snacks and candies: finger sandwiches, kiwis, grapes, pomegranates, baskets of popcorn, bowls of pretzels and chips, towers of Twizzlers, tall pyramids of Almond Joy…
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