Stephen Mejias

Because, three weeks later, my back, butt, and legs were still">http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/080707laziness/">still hurting, 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 Proclaim">http://blog.stereophile.com/he2007/051207proclaim/">Proclaim Audioworks DMT-100 and Loiminchay">http://blog.stereophile.com/he2007/051507mandarin/">Loiminchay Mandarin Supreme, but he's also very enthusiastic about smaller, more affordable designs from ZVOXhttp://blog.stereophile.com/he2007/051307zvox/">ZVOX; and Audioenginehttp://blog.stereophile.com/he2007/051407audioengine/">Audioengine;.

I was in an elevator with several others, coming down from the penthouse floor of an ordinary building on 32nd Street. My companions for the ride spoke in Spanish, lovely currents of flowing sound like:

It's stupid because I stood there looking at the subwoofer, thinking to myself, "Now, how should I get this thing out of the box?"

You know how sometimes you can't tell how wonderful an audio component is until after you've removed it from your system?