Do Forum users Constitute a useful statistical sample?

One of the premises JA offered in support of concern about the future of the high end was the increasing median age of Stereophile subscribers over time. I don't know how many subscribers the magazine has currently, but as I note the growth in the number of registered users of the forum and recognize that birth date is included in the registration I'm curious how the distribution of forum users by age might be panning out. My guess is that it might offer a more hopeful picture.

Does PowerPoint Make You Stupid?

Does PowerPoint Make You Stupid?

When I worked as a corporate speechwriter, my hardest job was weaning people off of their PP dependency and getting them to tell me what they did in conversational rhythms rather than bullet points. The people who downloaded the most data in pre-speechwriting interviews <I>and</I> delivered the best speeches at the events were the ones who'd never used that "gateway" program.

Is More Information Better than Less?

Is More Information Better than Less?

Heuristics&mdash;and Dan Goldstein&mdash;say not necessarily. A more pop-culturish explanation is presented on <A HREF="http://www.dangoldstein.com/dsn/archives/2006/03/malcolm_gladwel_1.html… blog</A>, where he shouts out to an excellent Malcolm Gladwell interview on ESPN.

Grace m902

Hey! I just got the April issue from the digital subscription. The guys doing the article on the Grace m902 mentioned problems with the USB, and then the reply from the manufacture said this might have been a configuration issue.

Any update on this? Isn't this the future, getting rid of SPDIF and sending the bits in a more friendly error correcting method?

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