"Have you tried anything with a sub yet? I'd be interested to hear how taking some pressure off your speakers and filling in the bottom end affects your opinion of the PSBs."
No, I've never added a subwoofer to any of the speaker systems I've listened to at home. I never even considered it, actually. Subwoofers just seem kinda weird to me, more suited for crash-and-boom home theater setups or in the back of some dude…
All seven are compelling, but huge John Cale fan that I am, I intended to post the Cale version below, proclaiming it the most deeply felt. Then I heard kd lang sing it.
I link below to The Guardian's superb obituary.
This morning, I got out of bed and made a pot of coffee. The coffee always tastes best when I make it. While the coffee brewed, I drew the white curtains and opened the old windows, smiled at the sunshine and said hello to the cool morning breeze. Soon, I would sit down on my orange couch with a cup of delicious coffee and turn on the computer. I was working from home.
Ah, working from home.
It's not all it's cracked up to be, really. There's always something: a UPS shipment gone awry, a writer who's having a bad day, a pigeon who decides to fly into your…
Hidden deep within the article is this seemingly innocuous sentence: "By most accounts, Wal-Mart had little to lose by dropping the price on the Panasonic TVs because it sold out its inventory nearly instantly." Translation: By limiting its per store on-hand inventory, Wal-Mart took a small hit while causing the entire industry to melt down. Granted, the retail chains made the classic…
It is said that academic fights are so nasty because the stakes are so low, but this one, while spirited, strikes me as fascinating and reasonably civil. Of course, I don't have a dog in this fight.
Via…