Stephen Mejias

In our">http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/now_on_newsstands_stereophile… April issue, Robert Baird talks to Okkervil River’s Will Sheff about his recent collaboration with Roky Erickson, the wild-eyed frontman for the famed 13th Floor Elevators.

The May 2010 issue of Stereophile is now on newsstands. Jon Iverson opens this issue by exploring “The Holy Trinity of Audiophiledom.” The idea was born on the morning of February 9. I had sent an e-mail to Jon, directing his attention to a">http://forum.stereophile.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=82398&an=0… post in our forum regarding one reader’s experience with cassettes and cassette decks. Jon responded by directing my attention to that morning's Vote">http://cgi.stereophile.com/cgi-bin/showvote.cgi?663">Vote question, which also dealt with cassettes.

You know what tomorrow is? Record">http://www.recordstoreday.com/Home">Record Store Day! It’s not that guys like you and me need a special reason to go to the record store and buy a bunch of vinyl, but it’s nice to have it anyway. You’ll find me at my local shop, Tunes, in Hoboken, by no later than 10am, waiting for the doors to open. Last year, I showed up just 30 minutes after they had opened, only to find that most of the coolest stuff had already sold out. Not this year. This year, I’ll be the one that gets all the cool stuff.

Last January, John Atkinson wrote an enthusiastic review of Dynaudio">http://www.stereophile.com/floorloudspeakers/dynaudio_sapphire_loudspea…’s 30th Anniversary Sapphire loudspeaker; impressed by its big-bottomed bass, neutral midrange, and stable stereo imaging, JA concluded:

In the">http://forum.stereophile.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=rants&Numbe… forum, it’s been determined that Magnum">http://www.stereophile.com/integratedamps/329/index.html">Magnum Dynalab, without a doubt, offers the best tuners on the market; and, while I don’t own a decent tuner and my time spent listening to the radio is dedicated almost entirely to frustrating Mets games and morning weather reports, I am now interested in Radio Happy Hour, with host Sam Osterhout, actors Matt Skibiak and Robin Reed, and music by Stephanie Davila.

The Eskuchehttp://www.eskucheme.com/">Eskuche; 33-1/3 headphone. On May 3, buy a pair of these and get a limited-edition Best">http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/the_world_is_crazy/">Best Coast 7” single. Pitchforkhttp://pitchfork.com/news/38483-best-coast-new-video-new-single/">Pitch…; told me, via Twitterhttp://twitter.com/stereophilemag">Twitter;.

This week only, we can stream">http://soundcloud.com/subpop/beach-house-the-arrangement">stream new music from Beach House. “The Arrangement” comes from the A side of Beach House’s “Zebra” 12-inch, made special for Record">http://www.recordstoreday.com/Home">Record Store Day (this Saturday, April 17!).