On the Third Hand
At <I>The Telegraph</I>, Gillian Reynolds isn't convinced Barenboim made either of those arguments at all.
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Sorry, Maestro Barenboim. Music is for Idiots and Neanderthals
Over at <I>The Times</I>, Terence Kealey begs to differ, not just with Barenboim's (and Plato's) premise that music uses sound to educate the soul in virtue, but also that "making music and playing it in an orchestra is the best way to understand democracy."
Passive Neglect
Next, we have this article, submitted by Jonathan Scull, which says the lectures rail against "passive noise pollution"—that Daniel Barenboim claims we are too frequently forced to hear music over which we have no control and, thus, we listen too infrequently to music we have actually chosen.
The Reith Lectures
Today's posts follow a common theme. First, we direct you to the Reith lectures on BBC4. And yes, dear readers (this means you, Clay White), this time you get transcripts as well as audio streaming and podcasts.
Press Your Own Copies of LPs
Yes! Find out that it's a lot harder than you think to make a vinyl record. Best part: Incorrectly centering the disc. (Most record presses do a pretty good job of this.)
I've Spent the Weekend Being Put In My Place
So I don't mind if you think I'm a hopeless dweeb for loving last night's <I>West Wing</I>. After all, when I asked my flight attendant for a special service on Saturday, I said, "you'll probably lose all respect for me . . . ."
Do you plan to attend any music festivals this summer? If so, which one(s) and what kind of music?
Summer is the season for outdoor music festivals, and the coming months are packed with events all around the globe. Do you plan to attend any music festivals this summer? If so, which one(s) and what kind of music?
NHT's Happy Ending
If you read <I>Stereophile</I>'s audio news regularly, you'll frequently see items such as <I>XYZ Audio Acquired by Megalomart, Inc.</I> Have you ever wondered about what that really means? I haven't, and I <I>write</I> those stories. Heck, now that I think about it, over the last eight years, <I>Stereophile</I> has even <I>lived</I> one of those stories.
Industry Update
<I>Jamo's jammin':</I> At the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), <I>Stereophile</I> was entranced by the look of <A HREF="http://www.jamo.com/">Jamo</A>'s striking reference R 909 "open baffle" loudspeaker ($14,999/pair). The dipolar high-gloss R 909 (available in black, red, or yellow) dispenses with the conventional box enclosure, mounting two 15" (380mm) woofers, a proprietary 5.5" (150mm) hard-conical cone (HCC) midrange, and a 1" (25mm) ScanSpeak Revelator tweeter into its raked-back front baffle, which is reinforced by a "flying" rib that lends it rigidity.
Sonus Faber Amati Homage anniversario loudspeaker
Back in the day, one of the first reviews to be posted in our free online archives at www.stereophile.com was Michael Fremer's June 1999 report on the <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/floorloudspeakers/139">Sonus Faber Amati Homage</A> loudspeaker. The Amati was the second in the Italian manufacturer's top range, the Homage line, which is dedicated to the master makers of stringed instruments of 17th-century Cremona. The first was the Guarneri Homage (<A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/standloudspeakers/487">reviewed by Martin Colloms</A> in July 1994), while the third was the Stradivari Homage (<A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/floorloudspeakers/105sonus">reviewed by MF</A> in January 2005). Mikey was so impressed by the Amati that he purchased the review samples and used them as his reference for almost three years.