Mikey In the Press Room at RTI

Mikey In the Press Room at RTI

Here's a sneak-peek at Mikey Fremer's upcoming DVD, "It's a Vinyl World, After All," scheduled to be released later this year. I swear: Mikey doesn't always talk like this. It's just that it's loud at the <a href="http://www.recordtech.com">RTI</a&gt; pressing plant, and Mikey's a little excitable.

PSB Imagine

PSB Imagine

Last Tuesday evening, JA and I left the office together and stormed through Madison Avenue's rush-hour onslaught, beneath so much Art Deco splendor, around Grand Central's excitement and confusion, passed happy hour revelers&#151slicked-backed men dressed in jackets and ties as if it wasn't 100 degrees outside, and impossibly radiant women in their picture-perfect poses sipping frozen drinks through tall, thin straws&#151to make our way into Park Avenue's old and golden Waldorf=Astoria.

What's the deal with Bose and Bang & Olefen?

like growing up i always thought of them as "audiophile" gear, but i never see them mentioned on boards like this or in mags like sterophile or others...

so did they used to be audiophile and then changed? or were they never audiophile stuff? or ARE they audiophile stuff?

subquestion: why does all of bang & olufsen's stuff look so kooky and weird?

Diggin' It

You know, being able to punch up a playlist of Dr. John and all my other New Orleans faves......poke some shrimp around in a skillet, turn the tunes up more, get another cold one, stir the grits and smell the secret seasoning, all while the music is on the deck, in the den, and in the listening room, gee I like this copmuter music stuff.

Just sayin'

Ya'll having fun with your systems?

Art Dudley on Costello

The thing I love about AD's columns, more & more, is that he seems to become more idiosyncratic in taste and opinionated with the passage of time. I relished reading him trashing Costello & the fawning music critics in this month's issue, although I think he's off his rockers about Yo La Tengo. But that's precisely the point; even when you disagree with him, you do so in the passion for the music you love (or hate). A lot of times, we can get caught in the gear-geekery (i.e. moi recently, with TTs) and AD's columns kind of snap you back into what's important.

Shelby Lynne LP

"just a little lovin'" Nice record. Got it on LP yesterday. Sound quality is very good too, and the 180g vinyl is flat and quiet. But there were a few brief passages where I clearly heard distortion/breakup. Arrgh! I can't tell if it's the record, or a problem with my cartridge or other eqpt. I had been listening to rowdy electrified rock just prior, I suppose that might have masked some distortion. I did check my tracking force and antiskating, they were correct. The cartidge is just several months old.

PSB Launches "Imagine" Loudspeakers

PSB Launches "Imagine" Loudspeakers

PSB came to New York in late July to debut its new line of loudspeakers, giving journos an advance peek at them before the official launch at the CEDIA Conference in early September. <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/interviews/231/">Paul Barton</A>, showing a lot of emotion for a normally reserved Canadian, was frankly in love with the four new loudspeakers.

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