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Everything You Know About Making Music

Those closest to me know that I've been in a rut, musically speaking. I'm not talking about my hi-fi. The system sounds better than ever. Seriously. I press play and I just want to throw my hands up in the air and say "Fuuuuuuuuuudge." It simply sounds awesome. And I don't usually get so excited about such things, but the music consistently sets me back into my seat and makes me want to curse. I don't understand it, but there you go.

And I'm not talking about my library. As I write this, I'm listening to The Dears' Gang of Losers. I'm not yet familiar enough with…

Thinking About Thinking

Another breakthrough in mapping the brain. I'm thinking that one day we'll start to understand how it works, but at least now I know which part of my brain I'm thinking that with.

2007 In Review

Why live through it? Steven Winn saves you the trouble by looking back at our future.

A Tangle of Influences

I like Adam Baratz's essay limning similarities between Robert Crumb and Frank Zappa.

Something Technical

I made a small noise.

"Sorry. What do you do for a living?" he asked, pressing his fingers into my gut.

"I'm an assistant editor for a magazine," I replied, taking a deep breath.

"Good. Now cough. What magazine?"

"Stereophile."

The doctor jumped back abruptly, tossed his arms into the air, made a jolly sound, and exclaimed, "Oh, you've made my day!"

What had he found? I wondered. "Oh?" I asked.

"I'm a fan, I'm a fan! Where are my magazines?" he asked, searching through a ragged stack of glossies hanging against the examination room…

Weird Science

"Stuff that behaves a little bit outside the norm . . . ." Sounds like a pretty good description of my friends.

Why You Never Forget How To Ride a Bike

It's a sensory-motor memory thing.

CES 2007 Show Report Coming Soon

The Stereophile editors are getting ready for CES 2007 and will be reporting live from the show starting Monday, January 8. Join John Atkinson, Wes Phillips, Larry Greenhill, Robert Deutsch, Stephen Mejias, and Jon Iverson as they file their reports and photos.

We Open in Venice

As we reported last March, the Consumer Electronics Association decided to move the "high-performance audio" and "high-performance home theater" exhibits of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to Las Vegas' Venetian Hotel in 2007. Here, then, in a blatant attempt to scoop my show-reporting Stereophile colleagues, is my picture of the new CES venue. I actually took this picture last year, not in anticipation of the change in show venue, but simply because I’m a sucker for the ersatz-European ambience of Las Vegas hotel-casinos like the Venetian. And whatever the advantages/…

Whizzinatorgate

Year's best sports-related story—2007 is going to have to really be wild to better this one.