Secondly, we listened to Bobby Womack's The Facts of Life. Actually, I didn't even listen to it. I had to get some guitar stuff prepared for band practice later that evening, but Alex chilled on my couch, listening to the LP.
After Side 1 was over, he screamed, "This guy is AMAZING."
You've become acquainted with The Daily Beast, but do you know <a href="http://www.dailyaudiophile.com/">The Daily Audiophile</a>? The two are kind of similar. On the former, you can read about nude New York City dinners, while on the latter, you can read about hi-fi reviews. See what I mean?
Then there's <a href="http://www.pbase.com/sid_presley/the_record_collection">this site</a> full of awesome Asian record covers from the 60s and 70s. (Thanks <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/project_sapphire_at_the_end_o…;.)
Oh, <a href="http://www.sleeveface.com/">Sleeveface</a>, how you do crack me up. (Thanks <a href="http://www.stereophile.com/asweseeit/1108awsi/">Ariel</a>.)
When Audio Advisor's Wayne Schuurman contacted me about reviewing the <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/headphones/1108vincent">Vincent Audio KHV-1pre</A> headphone amplifier, I felt confident that I had everything I needed to handle the task, owning, as I do, both the <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/headphones/806akg">AKG K701</A> and <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/thefifthelement/605fifth/index1.html">Sennhe… HD-650</A> headphones, which have long been my references. <I>That oughta get 'er done</I>, I thought.
Reader "dr.d" asks: "Is it better to have a decent system that allows all recordings to sound good, or to have a system that might make some not-so-hot recordings no fun to listen to?" What's your preference, a system that always creates beauty or one that can reveal the ugly truth?
Continuing with the theme started with last week's question: Which single composer or performer would you recommend to introduce someone to jazz music? And why?
A hit abroad but relatively unknown at home. That describes Cheap Trick who I wrote about here recently and also, believe it or not, Otis Redding. He was a big hit in the U.K. and even it seems in Paris before he hit at home with his final single, “(Sittin’ on the) “Dock of the Bay.”
The walls of the <i>Stereophile</i> offices have been shaking to the sounds of Mogwai's latest, <i><a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/the_hawk_is_howling/">The Hawk is Howling</a></i>. Yes, we know that hawks don't howl. (Or do they?) We also know the difference between a hawk and a bald eagle. (Sourpusses.)
Some reviews take longer to gestate than others. But in the case of Cary's CD 306 SACD Professional Version SACD/CD player, it has taken me literally years to get this review into print. I had visited Cary's impressive facility in North Carolina just before Christmas 2005, when I'd been playing the high-resolution master files of some of my recordings at an event being promoted by Raleigh high-end dealer Audio Advice. Cary's head honcho, <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/interviews/399">Dennis Had</A>, had been playing me music on a system featuring his Silver Oak loudspeakers, with the front-end one of the first samples of the original CD 306, playing discs through the two-chassis Cary SLP 05 preamplifier that Art Dudley <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/tubepreamps/906cary">ended up reviewing</A> in the September 2006 issue. "Now <I>that's</I> a product I'd like to review!" I enthused, looking inside the CD 306, and I drove back to Brooklyn with a review sample.