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Dog Gone
Winston Churchill referred to his depression as "the black dog." Matthew Johnstone taught his black dog to roll over by incorporating it in his art.
Back to the Fillmore
Andrew Coil VI gets a chance for a real rock'n'roll revival. From <I>The Boy Who Cried Freebird</I>.
The Boy Who Cried Freebird
Mitch Myers' book, <I>The Boy Who Cried Freebird:
Rock and Roll Fables and Sonic Storytelling</I>, is a lovely thing. He mixes essays, short stories, tall tales, and interviews about rock to get to the core of what it is to be a music geek. "Don't compare me to that guy in <I>High Fidelity</I>," he says. "That dude wasted all his time organizing his collection in some kind of chronological order—everybody knows that you should file your albums by genre."
Should an iPod dock be considered a standard component for a high-end audio system?
Now that Krell has <A HREF="http://blog.stereophile.com/he2007/051307ikid/">added one</A> to its product lineup, should an iPod dock be considered a standard component for a high-end audio system?
You Did It! (When Is a Change of Schedule Not a Change?)
Ever since Vol.6 No.3 was published in August of 1983, <I>Stereophile</I> has been the leading subjective review magazine in terms of circulation. At that juncture our circulation was 12,000 and has now increased to 15,000. And it's all your fault!
Sonos and Pandora Announce "Musical Love Child"
On May 23, <A HREF="http://www.sonos.com/">Sonos</A> announced the release of Sonos Software v 2.2, which adds <A HREF="http://www.pandora.com/">Pandora</A>'s personalized Internet radio service to Sonos' wireless multi-room music systems.
Latest Linn News
When we last <A HREF="http://stereophile.com/news/042307linn/">heard</A> from Linn, <I>The Scotsman</I> reported layoffs, restructuring, and a hoped-for resurgence. On May 25, we received a note from <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/interviews/1101ivor/">Ivor S. Tiefenbrun</A>, Linn's founder, that he had returned to the positions of chairman and managing director, after an absence of four or five years due to serious health problems, thanks to new medications that have "returned [him] to fitness and restored energy levels."
Listening #53
Today is Monday, February 5, and it's so buttercupping cold outside that the custodian couldn't get our school's oil burner started. Consequently, my daughter is home for the day, playing on the rug in front of the fireplace. (Santa brought a wooden castle and a fine selection of medieval figurines, some of which are headed for the dungeon as we speak.) I'm at my desk in the music room, on the upwind side of the house—and the wind is murder. The west wall is cold. The north wall is cold. The floorboards are cold. But the air inside is warm as toast: I'm driving my <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/artdudleylistening/706listening">Quad ESL</A> speakers with a Joule Electra VZN-80 amplifier ($12,000) that isn't at all bashful about squandering a goodly amount of energy as heat. I can't think of a more delightful quality for an amp to have, at least on a day like this.
Music in the Round #24
Good things come in threes, they say. Well, three-channel power amps suit me just fine. My main component rack is at the back of the room, so I split power duties between a two-channel amp under the rack to drive my rear-channel B&W 804S speakers and, way at the front, either three monoblocks or a three-channel amp for the front three <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/floorloudspeakers/1205bw">B&W 802D</A>s. I do this to ensure that the timbre of the front three channels is consistent. The outstanding performance of the <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/solidpoweramps/306sim">Simaudio Moon W-8</A> dual-mono power amp (<I>Stereophile</I>, March 2006) almost tempted me to go with a stereo amp and a monoblock, but voicing and balancing a multichannel system with equanimity makes me want as much simplicity as possible. I guess manufacturers and users see it the same way; many new three-channel amps are coming on the market.