<I>SLAM!</I> My left foot went numb. My fellow salesman, Danny Shapiro, had lost control of the Thiel CS5 that we'd been walking into place in Demo Room V, and it had come crashing down on my foot with unerring accuracy&mdash;all 180 lbs worth. As I stared down in horror, I remembered that we'd left the spikes on. But wait a minute&mdash;there was no pool of blood spreading out from under the CS5. How could that be? Convinced that the heavy cabinet was acting as a tourniquet, I levered it off my foot, expecting a grisly sight. I got one: my new Rockport pierced by the carpet-point&mdash;right between my big and second toes. And people ask me why I like small loudspeakers.

<I>SLAM!</I> My left foot went numb. My fellow salesman, Danny Shapiro, had lost control of the Thiel CS5 that we'd been walking into place in Demo Room V, and it had come crashing down on my foot with unerring accuracy&mdash;all 180 lbs worth. As I stared down in horror, I remembered that we'd left the spikes on. But wait a minute&mdash;there was no pool of blood spreading out from under the CS5. How could that be? Convinced that the heavy cabinet was acting as a tourniquet, I levered it off my foot, expecting a grisly sight. I got one: my new Rockport pierced by the carpet-point&mdash;right between my big and second toes. And people ask me why I like small loudspeakers.

<I>SLAM!</I> My left foot went numb. My fellow salesman, Danny Shapiro, had lost control of the Thiel CS5 that we'd been walking into place in Demo Room V, and it had come crashing down on my foot with unerring accuracy&mdash;all 180 lbs worth. As I stared down in horror, I remembered that we'd left the spikes on. But wait a minute&mdash;there was no pool of blood spreading out from under the CS5. How could that be? Convinced that the heavy cabinet was acting as a tourniquet, I levered it off my foot, expecting a grisly sight. I got one: my new Rockport pierced by the carpet-point&mdash;right between my big and second toes. And people ask me why I like small loudspeakers.

<I>SLAM!</I> My left foot went numb. My fellow salesman, Danny Shapiro, had lost control of the Thiel CS5 that we'd been walking into place in Demo Room V, and it had come crashing down on my foot with unerring accuracy&mdash;all 180 lbs worth. As I stared down in horror, I remembered that we'd left the spikes on. But wait a minute&mdash;there was no pool of blood spreading out from under the CS5. How could that be? Convinced that the heavy cabinet was acting as a tourniquet, I levered it off my foot, expecting a grisly sight. I got one: my new Rockport pierced by the carpet-point&mdash;right between my big and second toes. And people ask me why I like small loudspeakers.

<I>SLAM!</I> My left foot went numb. My fellow salesman, Danny Shapiro, had lost control of the Thiel CS5 that we'd been walking into place in Demo Room V, and it had come crashing down on my foot with unerring accuracy&mdash;all 180 lbs worth. As I stared down in horror, I remembered that we'd left the spikes on. But wait a minute&mdash;there was no pool of blood spreading out from under the CS5. How could that be? Convinced that the heavy cabinet was acting as a tourniquet, I levered it off my foot, expecting a grisly sight. I got one: my new Rockport pierced by the carpet-point&mdash;right between my big and second toes. And people ask me why I like small loudspeakers.

<I>SLAM!</I> My left foot went numb. My fellow salesman, Danny Shapiro, had lost control of the Thiel CS5 that we'd been walking into place in Demo Room V, and it had come crashing down on my foot with unerring accuracy&mdash;all 180 lbs worth. As I stared down in horror, I remembered that we'd left the spikes on. But wait a minute&mdash;there was no pool of blood spreading out from under the CS5. How could that be? Convinced that the heavy cabinet was acting as a tourniquet, I levered it off my foot, expecting a grisly sight. I got one: my new Rockport pierced by the carpet-point&mdash;right between my big and second toes. And people ask me why I like small loudspeakers.

<I>SLAM!</I> My left foot went numb. My fellow salesman, Danny Shapiro, had lost control of the Thiel CS5 that we'd been walking into place in Demo Room V, and it had come crashing down on my foot with unerring accuracy&mdash;all 180 lbs worth. As I stared down in horror, I remembered that we'd left the spikes on. But wait a minute&mdash;there was no pool of blood spreading out from under the CS5. How could that be? Convinced that the heavy cabinet was acting as a tourniquet, I levered it off my foot, expecting a grisly sight. I got one: my new Rockport pierced by the carpet-point&mdash;right between my big and second toes. And people ask me why I like small loudspeakers.

<I>SLAM!</I> My left foot went numb. My fellow salesman, Danny Shapiro, had lost control of the Thiel CS5 that we'd been walking into place in Demo Room V, and it had come crashing down on my foot with unerring accuracy&mdash;all 180 lbs worth. As I stared down in horror, I remembered that we'd left the spikes on. But wait a minute&mdash;there was no pool of blood spreading out from under the CS5. How could that be? Convinced that the heavy cabinet was acting as a tourniquet, I levered it off my foot, expecting a grisly sight. I got one: my new Rockport pierced by the carpet-point&mdash;right between my big and second toes. And people ask me why I like small loudspeakers.

SLAM! My left foot went numb. My fellow salesman, Danny Shapiro, had lost control of the Thiel CS5 that we'd been walking into place in Demo Room V, and it had come crashing down on my foot with unerring accuracy—all 180 lbs worth. As I stared down in horror, I remembered that we'd left the spikes on. But wait a minute—there was no pool of blood spreading out from under the CS5. How could that be? Convinced that the heavy cabinet was acting as a tourniquet, I levered it off my foot, expecting a grisly sight. I got one: my new Rockport pierced by the carpet-point—right between my big and second toes. And people ask me why I like small loudspeakers.

<B>TERRY EVANS: <I>Puttin' It Down</I></B><BR> AudioQuest Music AQ-CD1038 (CD), AQ1038 (LP*). Joe Harley, Terry Evans, Jorge Calderon, prods.; Michael C. Ross, eng. AAD/AAA. TTs: 53:25, 46:03*