Coolest Gift-Giving Guide Ever?
Maybe.
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Marilyn Monroe Unveiled
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Not Your Average Sushi
Stop, don't eat that!
Primedia Job Offer
We are seeking a seasoned sales professional to sell both print and online advertising in west coast territory for 2 leading enthusiast magazines and 3 websites in the home entertainment/consumer electronics industry.
<UL COMPACT>
<LI>Strong sales, presentation and negotiating skills</LI>
<LI>Develop new and cultivate existing business within the region (consultative sales skills a must!)</LI>
<LI>Ability to develop key client, agency and industry relationships at all levels. </LI>
<LI>Innovative and creative sales approach with strong business acumen </LI>
<LI>Must be well organized and have excellent verbal and written communication skills.</LI>
<LI>Promote and sell high-profile special projects (i.e. single-sponsored special sections, supplements, online events)</LI>
<LI>Travel for in-person client meetings and tradeshows</LI>
<LI>Prospect within territory for all potential advertisers</LI>
<LI>Maintain and grow substantial existing advertising base</LI>
<LI>Maintain database of all advertisers and prospects within territory</LI>
<LI>Plan and execute strategy to communicate features/benefits of all products to prospects and advertisers</LI>
<LI>Know all products and how to best present them </LI>
<LI>Follow through on sales and commitments with advertisers, prospects and peers</LI>
<LI>Submit thorough, accurate, timely reports and paperwork</LI>
<LI>Research prospects and advertisers to be familiar with their businesses</LI>
<LI>Revenue growth for online, print, events, sponsorships and custom publishing</LI>
<LI>Experience in making sales calls and closing business is a MUST</LI>
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Please send resumes and salary history to <A HREF="mailto:resumes@primedia.com">resumes@primedia.com</A>
Stereophile's Products of 2006
This Is The Perfect Time—the time of year we love most. Madison Avenue's confounding street signs are suddenly dressed in green and red wreaths, the city's weary scaffolding blinks happily with golden light, the ordinary clamor of traffic and jackhammers is magically transformed into jingle bells and drummer boys. There is music everywhere and nothing to get in our way: A look down the avenue in either direction throws open a window to all that is past and all that is to come.
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The Fifth Element #39
It's the time for giving gifts, so here's my plan: I will start off by telling you about some great new things, then remind you about some old favorites. Okay?
Dunlavy Audio Labs SC-I loudspeaker
The SC-I ($995/pair) is the smallest model in the "Signature Collection" to come from Dunlavy Audio Labs, the company founded by <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/interviews/163">John Dunlavy</A> after he left Duntech. The largest model in this series used to be the $4995/pair SC-IV that Robert Deutsch so enthusiastically reviewed last April, and that this month was voted <I>Stereophile</I>'s 1994 "Product of the Year." There is now also a huge <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/floorloudspeakers/162">SC-VI</A> available.
Ortofon MC-3000 MC phono cartridge
The <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/phonocartridges/ortofon_mc-2000_mc_phono_car… MC-2000</A> may just have been the most impractical cartridge to be unleashed upon the audio community for some years. With a high compliance (20cu) that made it ill-suited for most tonearms, it also had a preposterously low signal output of 50 microvolts, which gave new meaning to the terms hum and noise. Few MC preamps had enough gain to deliver adequate driving voltage to a system, and none of those that did had low enough noise to be usable with the 2000. If the problem wasn't hum, it was hiss; if hiss was acceptably low, there would be too much hum. At least Ortofon had the sense to be aware of the problem and to do something about it, in the form of their T-2000 step-up transformer, which is the only device I ever found that would allow the cartridge to be operated without a constant background of hum or hiss. Despite all this, I have used the MC-2000 as my reference cartridge for the last two years. Why? Because of all the cartridges I've tried, it is by far the most accurate.
Audiophile Gold Among the 2006 Grammy Nominees
The 2006 Grammy nominations are in, and audiophiles have much to rejoice about. In a year when far too many pundits are sounding the death knell for the CD in general and high-resolution formats in particular, there's a bumper crop of great sounding, high quality recordings vying for a listen.
Sweat Shops and Swipe Shops
When most pundits talk about China as an economic juggernaut, they're either predicting that it's the world's next controlling market or that it's the world's job markets' destroying angel.