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.