You thought the only new articles about CDs you'd be reading would be about further declines in sales? Well, it turns out that <A HREF="http://www.arkivmusic.com">ArkivMusic</A>, the country's leading website for new and formerly out-of-print classical recordings, posted, um, record sales last year.
Longtime <I>Stereophile</I> reader (and EFF senior staff attorney) Fred von Lohmann sent us a message pointing us to rumors that iPod Classics running v1.1 firmware were outputting DC through both their dock connection and headphone jack. He included a <A REF="http://ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/ipod-classic-11-line-out-vol…; to iLounge.com, which bills itself as "an independent provider of information about Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod and iPhone digital media players, accessories, and related software."
When last we heard business news from NHT, it had been <A HREF="http://stereophile.com/news/051506nht/">acquired by Vinci Labs</A> in 2006. Today, NHT managing director Chris Byrne told <I>Stereophile</I>, "We are sitting down right now and signing the papers to purchase NHT, Inc. from Vinci Labs, creating NHT Audio, LLC."
"We've tried making it more powerful. When I was away on holiday, some of our people cooked up a more powerful version and presented it to me on my return. It sounded awful."
The Melbourne Symphony plays music on VB bottles. My kind of musc.
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Audio Research, one of the companies that created the Silver Age of American high-end audio 38 years ago, was acquired by Italian private equity firm Quadrivio SGR on January 25. Quadrivio, which acquired Sonus Faber in 2007, intends to keep Audio Research's current management team in place.
What’s the point of having a blog if you can’t be self-indulgent now and then? So allow me to plug my new book, <I>Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power</I> (Wiley & Sons). As the subtitle may suggest, it is not a biography of the Monkees but rather a journalistic dissection of <I>why</I> the United States’ global adventures and image have gone to hell in recent years. Some of you may know that I write a twice-weekly column in <I>Slate</I> about such matters. My book is <I>not</I> a compilation of my columns; it’s all new stuff. The official pub date is February 4, but it’s already in stock in many bookstores and on amazon.
Hi! Where've you been?
Steve Martin has just published an autobiography, <I>Born Standing Up</I>, in which he describes how he created his comedic persona by using logic. That was the easy part, next he had to figure out how to <A HREF="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/funny-martin-200802.html?c=y… it to the audience</A>.