It's an Angry World
<a href="http://stereogum.com/507781/neil-young-angry-world-video-stereogum-prem…; premiered the video for Neil Young’s “Angry World” from his upcoming solo album, <i>Le Noise</i>.
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Killing the Blues: John Prine at Governors Island
The two Big Eye IPAs I had enjoyed with dinner were doing the trick. I was feeling weightless even before stepping onto the ferry. Beautiful people crowded the front, holding onto railings and each other, while some sat inside the old, wooden frame. Lower Manhattan was soft, quiet, and blue, and two towers of light shot high into the night sky. Suddenly, imperceptibly, the unreal city became smaller and more distant: I hadn’t noticed that the ferry had departed. We could just as easily have been riding a magic carpet. Robert Baird and I were on our way to see John Prine at Governors Island, just a short ferry trip away from Ground Zero in Manhattan.
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Electrocompaniet AW400 monoblock power amplifier
One of my favorite parental duties is dispensing advice that's calculated to make me sound wiser than I am. Among those pearls: Every so often you should change your point of view—your <I>philosophies</I>—just to see if your opinions can stand the strain. In doing so, you may discover a few things that are better than you expected them to be!
Audio Research VSi60 integrated amplifier
I'm a basically a tube guy, but I've never warmed up to most lower-powered integrated tube amps. Although I quite enjoyed the time I spent with the Cayin A-50T, which I <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/integratedamps/308cay">reviewed</A> in the March 2008 issue of <I>Stereophile</I>, over the years I've typically found I'd rather spend time with mid-priced, solid-state integrateds from Creek, Musical Fidelity, or Simaudio than deal with the loss of definition at the frequency extremes that I've heard from many lower-powered tube models. So it was with a bit of trepidation that I approached the VSi60, a 50Wpc integrated amplifier from Audio Research Corporation.
Building Quality
The cover is cracked. It is time to rip it off, look directly at the inner workings, and begin to fix things for ourselves.Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
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Recording of September 2010: Jitterbug
<B>Bushman's Revenge: <I>Jitterbug</I></B><BR>
Rune Grammofon RCD 2097/RLP 3097 (LP/CD). 2010. Bushman's Revenge, prods.; Hasse Rosbach, prod., eng.; Morton Stendahl, eng. DDA/DDD. TT: 53:39<BR>
Performance *****<BR>
Sonics ****½
What product have you purchased that gave you the least bang for the buck?
On the flip side to last week's question, what product have you purchased that gave you the <I>least</I> bang for the buck?
Sonny Rollins at 80
A few thousand jazz fans are feeling lightheaded this morning. They saw Sonny Rollins’ 80th-birthday concert at the Beacon Theater in New York City last night, and they’re still marveling (especially those too young to have witnessed giants walking the earth in great number) that, finally, they’ve seen a concert that made them tremble and that people will be talking about years from now.
The HiFiMAN HM-801 portable music player:
Big is the new small
<i>Photo: HeadRoom.</i>
Stax SR-Lambda Pro Classic headphones
You'd probably be surprised to learn that headphones are the most common means for listening to music. No, I didn't get that from a book, but from personal observation. I'm referring here to personal portable stereo listeningthe ubiquitous Jogman with which a whole generation has retreated into its own private world, isolated from traffic noise, muggers, and, at home, housemates or parents screaming "Turn it down!"
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