Nothing Could Be Finer
Than to blog hi-fi from China—or at least, that's what I thought when Original Audio's Ping Gong and GuangZhou Hi-Fi 2006's Zou Dao invited me to attend the largest audio show in the Celestial Kingdom.
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Robert Lockwood
Whenever I fly into one of those, "I gotta get rid of some of these CDs" moods, I inevitably settle on my seemingly endless boxes of blues records. But then like magic, hard–edged questions like "Do I really need 15 B.B. King records" eventually morph into expressions like, "Damn, I haven't heard this record in a hundred years." I am genetically unable to dump blues records.
Coming Soon!
Wes will begin filing his reports soon.
Edumacate Yourself
"<I>Epact</I> is an electronic catalogue of medieval and renaissance scientific instruments from four European museums: the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence, the British Museum, London, and the Museum Boerhaave, Leiden. Together, these museums house the finest collections of early scientific instruments in the world."
So That's What That Apple vs Apple Suit Was All About!
Are the Beatles coming to iTunes soon?
Data Can Now Be Stored on Paper!
Despite the <I>Oh, really?</I> hed, this is kind of a fascinating article.
Take a Chant
John Marks sends along this link to an Orthodox web radio station, which, as Monseigneur Marks points out, offers "more varieties of Chant than thou canst a stick shake at!"
When Does Passion Become Obsession?
Waaay before it becomes audiophilia. A documentary about the Audiophile Club of Athens.
A Thanksgiving Turkey
Microsoft's Zune, that is. Andy Ihnatko's <I>Chicago Sun-Times</I> review is pretty much perfect. Don't write him off as an Apple cultist, however. He gives props to the PDDs that get it right.