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Wes Phillips
Armor for Cats and Mice
Wes Phillips  |  Jun 18, 2007  |  0 comments
Jeff de Boer is a sculptor, jeweler, and artist who produces wonderfulobjets. From his FAQ: "I have not put a mouse into a suit of armor. I have, however, tried it with one of my cats, and have the scars to prove it."
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Wes Phillips
Spammer Grammar
Wes Phillips  |  Jun 18, 2007  |  1 comments
A reliable spam filter may serve the interests of the spammer as well as those of the recipient.
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Vote
Which audio product spent the most amount of time in your system?
Stereophile  |  Jun 17, 2007  |  96 comments

Sometimes we get lucky and find a product that turns out to stay with us forever. Which audio product has spent the most amount of time in your system?

Which audio product spent the most amount of time in your system?
That would be
96% (109 votes)
Don't know
4% (4 votes)
Total votes: 113
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Floor Loudspeaker Reviews
Wilson Audio Specialties WATT/Puppy System 8 loudspeaker
Wes Phillips  |  Jun 17, 2007  |  0 comments
Synecdoche: That's what the Wilson WATT/Puppy is.
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As We See It
Audiophiles Perfect What The Mass Market Selects
Jon Iverson  |  Jun 17, 2007  |  1 comments
As I write this in the first quarter of 2007, CD sales are off over 22% compared to this time last year. The music industry as we know it, based on sales of some kind of physical medium, is over. While CDs and even LPs will remain available—they're so easy and cheap to make—they've become irrelevant to the mass market and to the future of audiophile recordings. The major labels have also become irrelevant (not to mention highly irritating).
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Recording of the Month
Recording of June 2007: Sky Blue Sky
Robert Baird  |  Jun 17, 2007  |  0 comments
WILCO: Sky Blue Sky
Nonesuch 131388 (CD). 2007. Wilco, prods.; TJ Doherty, eng.; Jim Scott, mix; Bob Ludwig, mastering. AAD? TT: 51:18
Performance *****
Sonics ****
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Interviews
David Wilson: WAMM!! WATT?!? WHOW!!! (& the Puppies!)
John Atkinson  |  Jun 17, 2007  |  First Published: Jun 17, 1990  |  0 comments
The French have a phrase for it: plus ça change, plus la même chose, which can be roughly translated as "the more things change, the more they stay the same." I was reminded of this when recently reading through the December 1980 issue of The Absolute Sound. There on p.368 was the statement that "Dave Wilson (Virgo) has joined the staff...to construct a testing program that will allow us to determine if some of the peculiarities and anomalies we hear in evaluating equipment can indeed be numerically measured."
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Fred Kaplan
Anat Cohen
Fred Kaplan  |  Jun 17, 2007  |  0 comments
Anat Cohen’s Poetica, on her own Anzic Records label, is a fresh breeze of an album, and I mean that in a good way. Still in her 20s, Cohen plays clarinet with a polished edge and verve second only to Don Byron’s. Born in Tel Aviv, schooled at Berklee, honed in New York clubs, playing not just modern jazz but Brazilian Choro and Dixieland, she lets all her influences show but none of them dominate. Her tone bears something of klezmer’s lilt but none of its schmaltz. Her arrangements have the joyful-melancholic sway of Israeli or Latin folk music but none of its sentimentality. On the album, she also plays two knottily catchy original tunes, a Jacques Brel song, and a tinglingly lovely cover of Coltrane’s “Lonnie’s Lament,” the last backed by a string quartet. The sound, mixed by Joe Ferla and mastered by Sony’s Mark Wilder, is excellent.
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News
Fred Kaplan Debuts Jazz Blog
John Atkinson  |  Jun 17, 2007  |  0 comments
When Fred Kaplan made his Stereophile debut with his review of the Rogue Audio Atlas power amplifier last March, our scheme was also to publish his writings on the music that fuels his soul, jazz. Starting this past weekend, you can find Fred's thoughts on recordings, concerts, musicians, and the music at http://blog.stereophile.com/fredkaplan.
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News
Just Like the Good Old Days
Jason Victor Serinus  |  Jun 17, 2007  |  0 comments
The 10th annual The Home Entertainment Show (T.H.E. Show), which will run January 7–10, 2008, concurrent with the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), has expanded its exhibit space to include both the completely renovated Alexis Park Resort Hotel and its neighbor, the St. Tropez Hotel. By using both venues, T.H.E. Show, in effect, throws down the gauntlet to CES, which last year abandoned its traditional high-end audio home at the Alexis Park and moved High-Performance Audio to the Venetian Hotel.
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