I just destroyed a brand new CD. Chris Isaak's latest to be exact. I bought it a couple of days ago, listened to it almost once, then threw it on the floor and stomped it into little pieces.

Anyway, to the real topic...

South African athlete raises concerns that she is not an actual female, and the governing body of her sport wants an 'inspection.'

Sounds fair, but dig who they want her checked out by:

"...internal medicine specialists, gynecologists, psychologists, geneticists and endocrinologists."

Interesting how these NFL players are facing up to crime and punishment.

Plaxico Burress owned a gun. Perfectly fine exercise of his Second Ammendment rights. he's a prominent guy and potential trouble target, so he packs some personal heat. Burress even had an (expired) concealed carry (CCW) license from Florida, but no New York license. Still, he went to the trouble of trying to abide by gun laws, when he could.

So, he is minding his own with his homies at a local club when the gun slides down his leg and as he goes to grab it, he accidentally shoots himself in the leg.

After sorting out a channel dropout on my Nottingham 294 'table and arm w/Dynavector 17D3 cartridge, I got out an old audioquest demagnetizer and used it. Good Grief!! What a difference. I'd been noticing the music seemingly getting blurred, but that got cured big time. The sound is cleaner, crisper and extended. How often should you demagnetize? The cartridge had about 500 hours use.

Levon Helm is just the schiznit.

He and Buddy Guy are in this movie.

It's pretty good as flicks go, part of the "spending money in New Orleans after Katrina" genre.

Actually, it's great until the last 20 minutes, when someone in charge must have said, "Hurry up and wrap this in a tidy package."

Anyway, Levon Helm is great at everything he touches and I am so glad to see him alive and well - and y'all should listen to his two new discs, which are achingly great.

I am new to this site and to the wonderfully complex world of home audio. I am looking to put together a fairly budget system and could use some help deciding on the set up. I currently have a polk rm6750 system which is just not cutting it. I will be using it for 50/50 HT/music and would like a 5.1 system for the HT use. I am looking at two main set ups. The first is a higher end complete system like the Definitive Technology Procinema 800. The other set up I'm looking at is more of a peice meal set up in which I'd be buying a separate sub, center, bookshelves and rears.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituari...bert-Novak.html

Here's Terry Teachout's take, which argues that jazz has lost young listeners and should take a more populist approach, rather than exist as a marginalized high-art genre:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204619004574320303103850572.html

And Nate Chinen's polite rebuttal: