The Boy Who Cried Freebird

The Boy Who Cried Freebird

Mitch Myers' book, <I>The Boy Who Cried Freebird:
Rock and Roll Fables and Sonic Storytelling</I>, is a lovely thing. He mixes essays, short stories, tall tales, and interviews about rock to get to the core of what it is to be a music geek. "Don't compare me to that guy in <I>High Fidelity</I>," he says. "That dude wasted all his time organizing his collection in some kind of chronological order—everybody knows that you should file your albums by genre."

Should an iPod dock be considered a standard component for a high-end audio system?

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Now that Krell has <A HREF="http://blog.stereophile.com/he2007/051307ikid/">added one</A> to its product lineup, should an iPod dock be considered a standard component for a high-end audio system?

You Did It! (When Is a Change of Schedule Not a Change?)

You Did It! (When Is a Change of Schedule Not a Change?)

Ever since Vol.6 No.3 was published in August of 1983, <I>Stereophile</I> has been the leading subjective review magazine in terms of circulation. At that juncture our circulation was 12,000 and has now increased to 15,000. And it's all your fault!

Daughter Finds Used Vinyl

My daughter, Erin, comes down for a visit from CT and brings over 150 used albums. Unfortunately she found them vinyl against vinyl out of their cardboard jackets, most ruined.

I did manager to salvage a few treasures like:
Bernstein plays Brubeck plays Bernstein from 1959 that sounds pretty decent but slighly warped.

Jonah Jones Quartet

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