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Wes Phillips
The Five-Foot Shelf
Wes Phillips  |  Dec 26, 2006  |  0 comments
David Mehegan remembers his grandfather's devotion to the Harvard Classics: The Five-Foot Shelf of Books. Mehegan contends that the "Five-Foot Shelf" was the lodestone for "the life of a totally successful human being."
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Wes Phillips
Musurgia Universalis
Wes Phillips  |  Dec 26, 2006  |  0 comments
Father Athanasius Kircher explains just about everything—and the pictures are gorgeous.
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Because Nothing Says "Merry Christmas" Like Schoenberg
Wes Phillips  |  Dec 25, 2006  |  0 comments
Kyle Gann has posted Schoenberg's Weihnachtsmusik for our Christmas bliss. If you think Arnold never wrote a melody you'd like, take a listen to this gorgeous setting of "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming."
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Reg Kehoe and his Marimba Queens
Wes Phillips  |  Dec 25, 2006  |  2 comments
Because nothing says Christmas like marimbas and wild bass! BTW, if the marimbas look backwards, it's because the clip was designed to be projected in one of those film jukeboxes, where they were in fact viewed from the other side.

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Wes Phillips
Louis Armstrong "Swinging on Nothing"
Wes Phillips  |  Dec 25, 2006  |  0 comments
Christmas without Pops? Unthinkable!
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Wes Phillips
Christmas Cartoon Extravanganza!
Wes Phillips  |  Dec 25, 2006  |  0 comments
The 50 greatest cartoons of all time? Could be.
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Have you ever built a piece of audio gear? What was it?
Stereophile  |  Dec 24, 2006  |  124 comments

Some of us remember Heathkit and Hafler build-it-yourself audio kits. Others have designed and built their own stuff from scratch, with the pride in ownership that follows. Have you ever built a piece of audio gear? What was it?

Have you ever built a piece of audio gear? What was it?
Yes, here it is
83% (121 votes)
No, never
14% (20 votes)
Tried once, but it didn't work out
3% (5 votes)
Total votes: 146
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Tube Power Amp ReviewsTube Preamp Reviews
PrimaLuna ProLogue Three tube preamplifier & Seven monoblock amplifier
Robert Deutsch  |  Dec 24, 2006  |  0 comments
Everybody loves a bargain. No—make that: Most people love a bargain. Some just want the best, and they don't care about the cost. Some even distrust and reject out of hand any product that's not expensive enough. If you're one of these people, you might as well stop reading this review right now—the PrimaLuna ProLogue Three and ProLogue Seven are not for you. $1395 for a tube preamp? $2695 for a pair of 70Wpc tube monoblocks equipped with four KT88 tubes each? Must be based on old designs in the public domain using cheap parts carelessly assembled...
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Art Dudley ListeningTurntable Reviews
Listening #48
Art Dudley  |  Dec 24, 2006  |  0 comments
People love it when audio reviewers reach for that highest of all compliments: "I enjoyed the thing so much, I decided to keep it" (footnote 1). Manufacturers love it for obvious reasons. Readers love it because nuance is out of style at the moment, and the ambiguities implied by less decisive conclusions can be frustrating to adults who read with their mouths open. Publishers love it because strong, declarative statements have been scientifically proven, in double-blind reading tests, to attract subscribers.
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Audacious AudioCable Reviews
TARA Labs The Zero interconnect
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 24, 2006  |  0 comments
Let me take you by the hand, and together we'll jump off an audio cliff. I promise a soft landing, though there might be some turbulence on the way down.
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