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…
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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.
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.
Lionel Goodfield gave us a taste of things to come: The $3500 P5.3 balanced, full-feature preamplifer. It's slated to replace the P3 and P5, and introduces technology pioneered by the P7 Evolution.
It has four single-end inputs, one balanced input, one single-ended monitor output, and both SE and balanced outputs. It should be available by January.
A matching $4800 W5.3 150Wpc dual-mono power amp will follow soon.