It's obvious why I'm interested in it, but why am I linking to it? So you can review the reviewers, of course. Any review that endorses a product that requires cripple-ware and doesn't tell consumers how that will affect the is a bad review. People can see the shiny carcasses and pretty…
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Fred von Lohmann, senior intellectual property attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and our hero, sends along this link to the Center for Democracy and Technology's (CDT) thoughtful guidelines to how electronics product reviewers should evaluate digital rights management (DRM) issues.
Jeff Wong alerted me to the furor among artists over what is known as "The Blue Girl Infringement," which involves a piece of proposed bad law called the Orphan Works Act.
Brad Holland at Illustrators' Partnership lays the situation out clearly and includes links to the original Blue Girl art and its infringing advertisement (which has a gratuitous tonearm image, which makes it almost relevant to Stereophilia). Holland also posts a sample letter to Congress should you want to take action. (And you should do it quickly, because the bill's sponsors are attempting an end run around the…
Here's a handy site for travelers: TravelPost.com has a chart listing all the US airports with WiFi, complete with their rates and terminal locations. (Some airports do it right and offer free access to their hostages, er, guests.)
Bookmark this one for your pre-travel checklist.
Stereophila Bogging will be light for the next three days, while I am blogging CEDIA. I'll try to get some stuff up here and I will definitely be cat blogging on Friday, having spent the better part of yesterday afternoon following Huck and Bagheera around, camera in hand.
There are very many high-end audio websites out there. I know this because I've spent all day working on our "Audio Manufacturers on the Web" directory, which may be published in our 2007 Buyer's Guide.
2. Does it really belong…
I've got this 45-page Word document which lists every audio manufacturer's website we've come across, from 47 Laboratory to ZVOX Audio. I know: I'm sure we've missed someone. But, believe me: It wasn't on purpose. I copy a manufacturer's URL into a browser and fly to that site in order to answer two big questions:
1. Does the site still exist?2. Does it really belong…
I want to be secure when I fly, but many of the new restrictions strike me as absurd. I was forced to check my rolling carry-on yesterday because it "was larger than a computer bag." Great. I had visions of arriving at CEDIA sans computer or camera.
CEDIA is filled with niche products that most charitably can be labeled weird. Here Primedia's Laura LoVecchio poses with a MLB-themed television. Die-hard Mets fan that she is, she's pointing in revulsion at the Yankees logo hidden on the back.
As though that makes it uglier.
This bad boy is the crossover from a Dynaudio Evidence Temptation. Who says size doesn't matter?
Lionel Goodfield gave me a look under the hood of Simaudio's new $1400 LP5.3 Phono universal phono preamp. That huge power supply in the front? Well, Simaudio already has plans for an outboard, higher current model—and the umbilical connector is already resident on the rear panel.