What it is we do when we do this thing we do

What it is we do when we do this thing we do

Back on April 13, Stereophile assistant editor Stephen Mejias posted the following thought on his "Elements of Our Enthusiasm" blog: "Is it possible to listen to music and listen to the hi-fi? Or are they two entirely different activities, incomparable and incompatible? Right now, for me, they seem to have nothing in common, whatsoever."

Recording of August 2007: Beethoven Piano Concertos 1 & 4

Recording of August 2007: Beethoven Piano Concertos 1 & 4

<B>BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos 1 & 4</B><BR>
Lang Lang, piano; Christoph Eschenbach, Orchestre de Paris<BR>
Deutsche Grammophon B0008725-02 (CD). 2007. Arend Prohmann, prod.; Jrgen Bulgrin, eng. DDD. TT: 74:30<BR>
Performance ****<BR>
Sonics ****

Hello Newbie here (Need Audio guru on genesis)

Hi i just bought a pair of genesis technologies genre III they are the 2 way from I believe 1993.My question is Ican never get speaker placement.My room is 13x17 its not big but im trying to place them on the short wall.thank you for your time are this speakers respectable ive notice they are not bass heavy but oh well its not like im listening to rap lol

Keith Jarrett, Go Home

Keith Jarrett, Go Home

I am hereby boycotting Keith Jarrett. It’s a shame. He’s one of the great jazz pianists, but he’s just become too big a jerk—and, at a time when America has an ugly image in the world, a dreadful ambassador. Here’s <A HREF="
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB9mMABRM0c&quot; >
footage</A> of him cursing Italian jazz fans for taking his picture as he approached the stage, before he even started playing, at the Umbria Jazz Festival. These are people who paid over $100 for what he called the “privilege” of hearing him play. There are polite ways to ask people not to take pictures. You don’t have to treat them like scum.

enjoying the music again!

I've got a decent two-channel set-up separate from my 5.1 HT rig for the first time in a long while and I am just enjoying the heck out of it! And it's not that music sounded bad on my A/V system, but the combination of a better room and better quality speakers and amp is just blowing me away over and over again. The system is as follows:

Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab OML-2 loudspeakers
Adcom GFA-5500 amp
Adcom GTP-602 tuner/pre-amp
Onkyo DX-7555 CD player

Wish List !!!!

If you had it your way, which components would you have Stereophile review before X-mas time?

Here's my list:

-Audio Research Reference CD7 CD Player
-Audio Research HD220 Hybrid Amplifier
-Rockport Technologies Mira Speakers
-Audio Research LS26 Hybrid Preamp
-Paradigm Signature S8 or S6 Speaker (latest version with the Beryllium tweeter)

Lo Res Labels

Lo Res Labels

Insider music biz stuff should in most cases stay that way because normal folk, what I like to call "civilians," don't care about who said what to whom in the bowels of some label HQ in Burbank or Manhattan. There's also something pitifully self-indulgent and exclusionary and ultimately pathetic about people who are in the know about the music biz and live to tell you about it.

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