Bel Canto e.One DAC3 D/A processor
"You've got to hear it!"
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Placette Active Linestage preamplifier
A friend once described my audio ethos as "records, tubes, big amplifiers, and really big speakers"—I always picked warmth and musicality over antiseptic neutrality, even if the former came with a few extra colors in the tonal palette. Had I listed my criteria for an audio component, <I>transparency</I> wouldn't have been near the top, and might not have been listed at all.
Grand Prix Audio Monaco direct-drive turntable
Conceptually audacious, elegantly designed, executed with space-age precision, and remarkably compact, Grand Prix Audio's direct-drive Monaco turntable ($19,500) aims to turn the tables on the belt-drive designs that have dominated analog playback for three decades.
Music Lessons
Apparently they pay off.
On The Beach
A family in Wales went to the beach last July and discovered an intact P-38 that went down in 1942.
Getting to Yes
Robert Cialdini's science of persuasion.
Profiling
Those impressive profilers you see on TV and the movies? In reality, they're not quite as effective as they're portrayed—not by a long shot.
Show Time
<I>"Rave on down through the corridors,<BR>
"Rave on words on printed page!"</I>—Van Morrison, "Rave On John Donne"
Sun Ra Phones Home?
The Cassini-Huygens probe has been recording the sounds of Saturn. My cats, who are thoroughly bored by everything audio (other than the gear's heat-generating properties), were quite agitated by these sounds. Good to know, <I>hee hee hee</I>.
10 Years After
"Words are pegs to hang ideas on."—Henry Ward Beecher
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