What I've been missing lately is music. And possibly alcohol, <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/091906reddening/">thinks Buddha</a>.

This just in: Jerome Harris dropped me a line announcing a concert tour with Bill Frisell, Jack DeJohnette, and Ben Surman. Unfortunately, it won't be playing anywhere <I>I</I> can go see them, but if you're lucky, you can catch one of these dates.

Ten years ago, John Horgan wrote <I>The End of Science</I>, arguing that scientists had already solved most of the big mysteries of the universe, Has a decade of scientific progress tempered that belief?

Bill Thompson explains how DRM supersedes copyright law and chills creativity.

Mark Mortimer's review of <I>Einstein and the Old One</I> makes an interesting point&mdash;just because we "know" stuff our ancestors didn't doesn't actually make us smarter. We "know" without comprehending.

On display in the <I>Hi-Fi News</I> Show ballroom were classic Lowther and Voigt drivers (bottom left is an AC mains-energized field-coil Voigt).

Perhaps the amplifier that had the most influence on modern tube-amp design was the D.T.N Williamson, shown here in an example made by Goodsell of Brighton.

On display in the ballroom at the <I>Hi-Fi News</I> Show: an original early-'50s Corner Ribbon speaker from the Acoustical Company, later to change its name to Quad.