Stephen Mejias

The November 2010 issue of Stereophile is now on newsstands. Immediately after shipping the issue to press, we had to redirect our focus to shipping the 2011 Stereophile Buyer’s Guide. And almost immediately after shipping the Buyer’s Guide, we had to redirect our focus to shipping the December 2010. While the December issue was in its very final stages, we had to fly to Denver to cover the outstanding Rocky">http://blog.stereophile.com/rmaf2010/">Rocky Mountain Audio Fest. It’s been a whirlwind and I can honestly say that I hardly remember working on the November issue.

One of my favorite albums of the year comes from Brooklyn-based artist Julianna">http://www.myspace.com/juliannabarwick">Julianna Barwick. The album is called Florine. Michael Lavorgna told">http://www.twitteringmachines.com/2010/03/julianna-barwick/">told me about it. It was months ago and I remember leaving work that day and rushing over to Other">http://www.othermusic.com/">Other Music to buy the album. I got one of the first 200, pressed on white vinyl. Karenhttp://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/last_night_in_other_music/">K…; congratulated me and told me that I’d be very happy with the music.

Me, listening to old MPS songs with the V-MODA Crossfade LP headphones and the HiFiMANhttp://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/the_hifiman_hm-801_portable_m…; portable music player. Photo by intrepid Ariel Bitran.