Also, everyone should read JA's "The High End, Mid-Fi, & Pretend High End" all over again, please. Commit it to memory, even.
In other news, the 2008 Buyer's Guide is just about as good as gone. Off to the printer, that is. Hallelujah and amen. Now, if someone would just write the "Products of the Year" feature for me, that'd be great. Thanks!
As Pratchett fans know, that's not so. He just keeps getting better and better. So, how to enter his fascinating web of Discworld novels? L-space suggests several access points, which are logical and spot-on. I usually tell folks to start with Guards, Guards and the tales of Ankh Morpork's City Watch, but L-space (a deep Pratchett reference in itself) suggests several threads that make as much sense.
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The sun was rising and the air was cool. Autumn had finally arrived. It would be a few more hours before the Mets game started. I sat down and began to listen.
The Aperion Intimus 532s were already in place, so I decided to start with them. They use a 1" ferrofluid-cooled silk dome tweeter and a 5.25" mineral-filled polypropylene midrange driver. The tweeter's ferrofluid cooling is meant to provide a smooth response with a natural, distortion-free sound, while the mid-woofer's mineral-filled polypropylene is said to offer resonance dampening and the ability to handle the…
"There’s no such thing as black man’s music and white man’s music, as far as I’m concerned. It’s all music, daddy. Now that’s putting it in black and white. It’s all music. It’s all about love."