Edsel Turns 50
It's funny, but everybody <I>knows</I> the Edsel was a flop and a wretched car. Everybody that is, except people who own one. I've known four people who were proud Edsel owners and their cars were all great rides.
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Fred Hersch & Friends
Fred Hersch is playing six nights of piano duets at the Jazz Standard in New York City this week, pairing off with a different pianist each night, and Tuesday’s opening set was a marvel, further evidence that Hersch, not quite 52, is one of the two or three most harmonically imaginative jazz pianists on the scene and keeps carving new pathways—more intricate and probing, but no less swaying or lyrical.
Blogging Update
Blogging on <I>Stereophilia</I> will be sporadic this week because of CEDIA—although the chaos kitties will make their Friday appearance as usual.
Pink Moan
Remember all that furor over research results indicating women's brains are hard-wired to prefer pink? Well, you needn't.
CEDIA 2007 Coverage Coming Soon!
Stay tuned for live reports from Denver.
Disconnected Delta
Really want to protect New Orleans? Restore the Mississippi Deltaic Plain. The Army Corps of Engineers—those busy little khaki covered beavers—have much more than those sub-par levees to answer for.
Anna Netrebko
Who can resist an article that begins like this? "The sniffles of a diva are like the tantrums of La Nina: a tropical depression in the Pacific is ready, by the time it gets to the North Atlantic, to produce lightning bolts, pelting hail and a deluge of biblical ferocity."
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When you are dialing in your system, do you get your buddies to help?
They say that being an audiophile is a lonely pursuit, but some 'philes like to make their adjustments with as many ears as possible. When you are dialing in your system, do you get your buddies to help?
Lyra Clavis Da Capo moving-coil phono cartridge
Scan-Tech builds low-output moving-coil cartridges for a number of companies, including AudioQuest, Linn, and Spectral (footnote 1). It also markets its own line, under the Lyra brand name (Lydian, Clavis, Parnassus), which is imported and distributed by Immedia out of Berkeley, CA.