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When I was eight, I had a series of accidents that kept me indoors for most of a winter. My parents, thinking I needed diversion, gave me a lab-grade microscope, which completely captivated me. I quickly learned to cut, mount, and stain specimen slides. One day, however, the med student father of one of my friends dropped a bombshell on me—he brought home a box of commercially prepared slides from the university's book store. For the next year, the only comic books I read were the ones at my friends' houses, my allowance went to buying slides, which, if I recall, cost 25–75¢ each.

Over at <I>The Audiophiliac</I>, Steve Guttenberg's CNET blog, there's a superb piece on Daptone Records, Brooklyn's own old-school analog record label. I heard Daptone artists the Budos Band on <I>Soundcheck</I> a few weeks ago and <I>loved</I> the classic '60s sound on their record.

I love this stuff. If I was rich beyond dreams of avarice, I would so collect it.

Because, three weeks later, my back, butt, and legs were <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/080707laziness/">still hurting</a>, I decided to go to the doctor. My doctor is an audiophile. He had had a wonderful time at the Home Entertainment Show last May. He's mostly attracted to the more exotic loudspeakers such as the <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/he2007/051207proclaim/">Proclaim Audioworks DMT-100</a> and <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/he2007/051507mandarin/">Loiminchay Mandarin Supreme</a>, but he's also very enthusiastic about smaller, more affordable designs from <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/he2007/051307zvox/">ZVOX</a&gt; and <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/he2007/051407audioengine/">Audioengine</a&gt;.

Forty years ago, <I>Bonnie and Clyde</I> blew away Hollywood's attitude about bloody violence. <I>The Observer</I> looks back.

The most important change made to the system was one that held up the writing of my review of the <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/solidpoweramps/991ml23">Mark Levinson No.23.5</A> power amplifier for several months, such was its anticipated impact. Though my listening room is well-equipped with wall sockets, there are actually only two 15A circuits serving these outlets. Ever since I had converted what had hitherto been our house's master bedroom into my listening room, I had intended to run new circuits to it.