He hits a tom-tom and says, "When you hear a speaker reproduce this, you're really getting somewhere."
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Mr. Hou's loft is stuffed with fun goodies, such as a drum set, keyboard rack—even a disco ball.
XLH's SL-INS preamplifier ($5000). No, I didn't get a chance to hear them—Mr. Hou is still building his second AEF-1812, having sold his previous sets.
Slate interviews The Wire's David Simon.
I had never watched The Wire before this season, but it has become my true don't-miss TV. It's the only TV show I can think of that truly is novelistic in scope—and yes, I include The Sopranos in that dismissal of the competition.
Now forget all the bad press, lackluster reviews, and general public indifference. Doesn't this make you want to buy a Zune?
I really mean it, WTF?
The Axion has been found. Maybe it's just me, but when I clicked on the URL and saw Piyare Jain with his hands about a foot apart, "I thought, "That's not so small."
It wasn't the first time I'd been beneath a loudspeaker. The Onkyo D-TK10 Guitar Speaker had been causing me some grief. Though it really is handsome with its freckled mahogany cabinet, curving at the top and around the back to even resemble the sensuous body of a guitar, and the gleaming cottony weave of its 4" woofer offering an unforgettable smile, I had been having trouble coming to terms with its unusual sound. That is, of course, when I could actually hold onto its unusual sound long enough to identify it.
Onkyo states that the D-TK10's cabinet was built by "…