This year marks the tenth time I've written an introduction to <I>Stereophile</I>'s venerable annual feature "Records To Die For." Looking back, I'm proud that readers always find it useful and entertaining. I'm also amazed, on some levels, that our writers&mdash;hardware or software, deadline-phobic or not&mdash;manage to find something worthwhile to say, year in and year out, about music&mdash;which, after all, is why we became audiophiles in the first place.

This year marks the tenth time I've written an introduction to <I>Stereophile</I>'s venerable annual feature "Records To Die For." Looking back, I'm proud that readers always find it useful and entertaining. I'm also amazed, on some levels, that our writers&mdash;hardware or software, deadline-phobic or not&mdash;manage to find something worthwhile to say, year in and year out, about music&mdash;which, after all, is why we became audiophiles in the first place.

This year marks the tenth time I've written an introduction to <I>Stereophile</I>'s venerable annual feature "Records To Die For." Looking back, I'm proud that readers always find it useful and entertaining. I'm also amazed, on some levels, that our writers&mdash;hardware or software, deadline-phobic or not&mdash;manage to find something worthwhile to say, year in and year out, about music&mdash;which, after all, is why we became audiophiles in the first place.

This year marks the tenth time I've written an introduction to <I>Stereophile</I>'s venerable annual feature "Records To Die For." Looking back, I'm proud that readers always find it useful and entertaining. I'm also amazed, on some levels, that our writers&mdash;hardware or software, deadline-phobic or not&mdash;manage to find something worthwhile to say, year in and year out, about music&mdash;which, after all, is why we became audiophiles in the first place.

This year marks the tenth time I've written an introduction to <I>Stereophile</I>'s venerable annual feature "Records To Die For." Looking back, I'm proud that readers always find it useful and entertaining. I'm also amazed, on some levels, that our writers&mdash;hardware or software, deadline-phobic or not&mdash;manage to find something worthwhile to say, year in and year out, about music&mdash;which, after all, is why we became audiophiles in the first place.

This year marks the tenth time I've written an introduction to <I>Stereophile</I>'s venerable annual feature "Records To Die For." Looking back, I'm proud that readers always find it useful and entertaining. I'm also amazed, on some levels, that our writers&mdash;hardware or software, deadline-phobic or not&mdash;manage to find something worthwhile to say, year in and year out, about music&mdash;which, after all, is why we became audiophiles in the first place.

This year marks the tenth time I've written an introduction to <I>Stereophile</I>'s venerable annual feature "Records To Die For." Looking back, I'm proud that readers always find it useful and entertaining. I'm also amazed, on some levels, that our writers&mdash;hardware or software, deadline-phobic or not&mdash;manage to find something worthwhile to say, year in and year out, about music&mdash;which, after all, is why we became audiophiles in the first place.

This year marks the tenth time I've written an introduction to <I>Stereophile</I>'s venerable annual feature "Records To Die For." Looking back, I'm proud that readers always find it useful and entertaining. I'm also amazed, on some levels, that our writers&mdash;hardware or software, deadline-phobic or not&mdash;manage to find something worthwhile to say, year in and year out, about music&mdash;which, after all, is why we became audiophiles in the first place.

This year marks the tenth time I've written an introduction to <I>Stereophile</I>'s venerable annual feature "Records To Die For." Looking back, I'm proud that readers always find it useful and entertaining. I'm also amazed, on some levels, that our writers&mdash;hardware or software, deadline-phobic or not&mdash;manage to find something worthwhile to say, year in and year out, about music&mdash;which, after all, is why we became audiophiles in the first place.

This year marks the tenth time I've written an introduction to Stereophile's venerable annual feature "Records To Die For." Looking back, I'm proud that readers always find it useful and entertaining. I'm also amazed, on some levels, that our writers—hardware or software, deadline-phobic or not—manage to find something worthwhile to say, year in and year out, about music—which, after all, is why we became audiophiles in the first place.