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"I was at Maxwell's last night for no more than three hours, and it made me terribly sick."<br>
"<a href="http://www.maxwellsnj.com/">What’s Maxwell's?</a>" JA asks.<br>
"Oh," I say, "It's a rock and roll club in Jersey."<br>
"Thank you for assuming that I'm hip."<br>
I laugh. "I’ve become so <a href="http://www.niehs.nih.gov/airborne/prevent/smoke.html">allergic to cigarette smoke</a>. I woke up this morning coughing blood, and I've got a horrible headache now."<br>
"You must have some insect genes."<br>

Chris Sommovigo from Signals Super-Fi passed this one my way. A great read.

Rarely does a day pass when Wes Phillips doesn't send his pals a bunch of emails with links to stuff he's found while Web surfing. Frequently it is audio-related, but even when it's not, there's usually something there worth checking out.

Other than making you look like a dork, that is.

A criticism often hurled at audiophiles is that they're willing to spend money on tweaks that defy common sense and/or the laws of physics. How willing are you to try a wild idea for yourself?

The hits just keep on coming in fair-use land. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has proposed legislation that requires that all digital radio content be encrypted, including works that now exist in the public domain. The proposed legislation would apply to satellite radio (Sirius, XM) as well as conventional terrestrial broadcasting. As proposed by the RIAA, content could be recorded only in blocks of 30 minutes or longer, and the recorded data could not be exported from the recording device (in other words, you could only play it back on the device you had recorded it on&mdash;no more recording programs on your hi-fi to listen to on your way to work). To learn more about this legislation, go to <A HREF="http://www.publicknowledge.org/news/analysis/digital-radio-2pager">Publ… Knowledge's two-page summary</A>. While you're there, you might want to check out <A HREF="http://www.publicknowledge.org/issues/why">"Why These Issues Matter."</A>

The 2006 edition of the <I>Stereophile Buyer's Guide</I> is out now. Listing the specifications of more than 5000 audio components within its 212 large-format pages, the <I>Buyer's Guide</I> is exclusively concerned with products for <I>music</I> reproduction, as opposed to the bangs, bonks, and battle noises typical of movie soundtracks.