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I check in on aggregator blog Locust Street every week and it's almost always worth the visit. The last two weeks, however, have been extraordinary. Last week's deep excavation of the "Dry Bones" meme was perfect, but this week's theme of party girls is even better. Go—but only if you have a few hours to spend.
"A massive 83 million tapes were sold in the UK in 1989. Yet by last year the figure had fallen to a mere 100,000. In the Nineties sales of pre-recorded tapes were overtaken by CDs and record companies started phasing them out."
We will begin coverage of HE 2007 in New York starting Thursday, May 10. Stay tuned for reports from all three days of the show.
Counting down to HE2007, I'm starting to link each day to a hi-fi topic.
"Vacuum tube technology is a classic electronic technology that’s not going to go away. Why abandon a technology just because it’s old?"
"Every time [the robot] found a mine, blew it up and lost a limb, it picked itself up and readjusted to move forward on its remaining legs, continuing to clear a path through the minefield.
"Finally it was down to one leg. Still, it pulled itself forward. Tilden was ecstatic. The machine was working splendidly.
"The human in command of the exercise, however—an Army colonel—blew a fuse.
"The colonel ordered the test stopped.
"Why? asked Tilden. What's wrong?
"The colonel just could not stand the pathos of watching the burned, scarred and crippled machine…
Thomas E. Witte tells the story of an amazing photograph—and an even more amazing athlete.
I'll break something, I swear to God! Maybe one of Newton's laws. You've got all the distance of uncertainty simmering in your drawers.
—Jim Teacher in "Mad Flo"
—Jim Teacher in "Mad Flo"
Considering the many enthusiastic responses I've received in reference to last week's suit entry, it seems I should write about suits more often. And so: I looked up from my sturdy book to find an unusually large number of suits riding this morning's train. They surrounded me, whistled and winked at me, wagged their pinstriped fingers at me, raised their padded shoulders, flapped their skinny lapels, and laughed…
On An Overgrown Path posts a fine (and balanced) appreciation of Reginald Goodall.
The link to a discussion of Adolf Hitler's record listening habit is fascinating.
Gordon Sell PR has added a new client to its already impressive roster. Proclaim Audio of Durham, CT, is absolutely new to me, but I will take the opportunity to get to know the company during the Home Entertainment Show.
With the DMT-100 speaker system ($25,999), the engineers and designers at Proclaim Audio confronted the variable of room acoustics, in an attempt, it seems, to effectively eliminate the room itself, to create a speaker that sounds good in any room of any home. The result is an unusual system which, in fact, eliminates the speaker cabinet. An 11" woofer, 5"…