Belle and Sebastian Write About Love

Belle and Sebastian Write About Love

Just like me, Belle and Sebastian write about love. The band’s new album is due out here in the States on October 12. It will be mine. You can listen to a clip on <a href="http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/08/16/belle-sebastian-write… Matablog</a>. The song, “I Want the World to Stop,” sounds just as dark and groovy and infectious as you might imagine. I’ve listened to it about 69 times already.

Moving

Moving

The October issue of <i>Stereophile</i> shipped to press yesterday afternoon. (Hallelujah.) We are already deep into the November issue, while our new editorial assistant, <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/the_young_guy/">Ariel Bitran</a>, is tackling the <i>2011 Buyer’s Guide</i>. In addition to all of that, and on top of the regular stuff, the entire office is in <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/boltz_cd_rack/">the process of moving</a> onto the 6th floor of our 261 Madison Avenue location. Construction crews are tearing down walls and building new cubicles, painters are turning white and gray into blue and cream, movers are carrying tables and desks up flights of stairs. My office is cramped with <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/buried/">boxes</a&gt;, but this time they’re moving boxes.

Is there a problem with the forum?

A few times over the past couple of days, when attempting to view the forum, I get a whole page of stuff like this:

"Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Unknown MySQL Server Host 'simcmmgdb2' (2) in /usr/local/webroot/stereophile/forum/mysql.inc.php on line 36"

It happens with IE or Firefox, and soon it's back to normal. Has anyone else seen this behavior? I thought Stephen and John might like to know about it, so I'm posting.

KEF Reference Series, how do the different finishes sound?

What do you think the color to color variability is in the sound?

We also don't hear much about which veneers sound best on any given speaker.

Walnut? Cherry? Maple?

I'm sure they all have sonic differences, no?

(I mean, if someone can tell the best arrangement of screw tightening pattern for the lid of an amplifier, something as vast as veneer characteristics should have easily differentiated sonics.)

mr. dudley's phono cartridges

Mr. AD:

I am a long time reader going back to Listener. I enjoyed the article this month on the Electroc..... amps. When reading the section about the reviewer's gear, I noticed that you show a Shilabe cartridge. Can you tell me if you bought one, is it the same one that MF reviewed and if so, are you doing a second opinion on it to be published later. A friend has one and it is a cartridge that I am very interested in learning more about.
Thanks.

Tom

On Building Quality

Some MP3 files DO sound BETTER on cheap playback equipment. MP3 files CAN sound good on high resolution playback equipment. MP3 quality CAN be very good - or awful - or anywhere in between and ultimately depends on the talent of the recording/mixing/mastering engineer.

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