Busy here in <i>Stereophile</i> HQ. As the salsa blares ("<i>Clavo saca clavo!</i>"), we're happy to be working on Issue Number 1 of Volume 31. That's January 2008. And I just sent the 2007 Article Index to our copy editor, Richard Lehnert. Having compiled this list of every equipment report, column, interview, and feature we've published over the past year, I can confidently say:
Jonah Lehrer has been promoting his new book <I>Proust Was a Neuroscientist</I>, which means I've heard him interviewed on the usual chattering-classes suspects. And every time I hear him, I think I need to read his book.
Which parts of the human body could <I>you</I> design better?
My wife gave me a copy of <A HREF="http://www.randomhouse.com/pantheon/graphicnovels/catalog/display.pperl… Complete Persepolis</I></A> for my birthday and I've been devouring it greedily. Satrapi's graphic novel uses a charmingly primitive visual style to tell a horrifying story of growing up in revolutionary Iran.
Scientists say your brain does it for you. Now, I'd like them to reverse the experiment to see if that's why okay home theater can be "good enough," but so-so hi-fi seldom is.
Maybe we need a new word for over-advertising results.
Jeremy Paxman argues that the last lines of "<I>Dulce et Decorum Est</I>" were not meant cynically.
Wow, Mark Steyn is even crankier than I am.
Jay Allen Sanford describes his horrifying descent into crack addiction and homelessness. It's not a pretty story, except that he did make it back.
It's been several decades now since the tube <I>vs</I> solid-state debate began, with no end in site. Now we have some digital (PWM or class-D) contenders. What technology is your main amplifier? What brand and model is it and why did you choose it?