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One of the treats of my Thanksgiving was an up-close-and-personal analysis of my 14th century musical manuscript by Metropolitan Museum fellow Eric Weaver. I was reasonably sure of its date, based on the staff structure and mensuration, but Eric taught me an immense amount about parchment, calligraphy, illumination, monastic culture, and medieval guilds in the 30 minutes or so that he discussed my musical fragment. In short, he took an object I see above my hi-fi every day and made an epoch come alive—conversationally and off-the-cuff.
With another act of blatant scoopage (I'm writing this as my colleagues are meeting for breakfast), I must let you know that, while ripping through the Venetian halls, late yesterday evening, making some final preparations before today's morning activities, I nearly fell on my face at the sound of such sublime elfin wonder coming from the Audes Room (suite 29-324, conveniently close to where Primedia's Home Tech Group resides, which is to say: I'll be back, again and again.)
It was Joanna Newsom singing and harping about, you know, elves and butterflies, and fairies, making me want to…
I'm covering CES in Las Vegas this week, so posting will be sporadic. Check out Stereophile's 2007 CES Report blog for the latest on high-end audio and the people who make it.
No, that's a $2900 painting of an extension cord—and, God help me, I want it.
Via Boing-Boing.
According to www.after50health.com "The classic part of a classical music is that it will not distract the attention of the listener and at the same time be able to instill relaxed feeling in the minds of listener."
Syntax aside, this is beyond stupidity, it has to have been written by someone who has never actually heard any classical music—and certainly no Berg,
Via www.oboeinsight.com, who also points us to this Miles Hoffman gem.
Stephen Mejias and longtime Primedia CES assistant Cynthia get the awards ready to be handed out later in the day. We'll have complete pictures and story later.
This is the first year that the high-end audio exhibits are clustered in the Venetian Hotel and Casino. Emphasis on the casino part - to get to the majority of hotel room exhibits, we must negotiate about a quarter mile of hallway and casino to get from the shuttle stop to the elevators. The rooms themselves are nicely appointed, but several exhibitors are already complaining about the acoustics and the challenge of finding ways to make the two level suites music friendly. And on a personal note, the press room is back the quarter mile through the casino near the shuttle stop. End of…
You have to start somewhere, so Jon Iverson and I started with DLS from Sweden. "Are you guys new?" JI asked.
"No. We've been in the automotive audio business for 10 years. This is our first home audio system,"said David Koniarski, DLS' marketing manager. He pointed to the CD One ($3500) and Amplifier One ($3500), a 100Wpc integrated with a single-ended mosfet output stage.
"I design the loudspeakers," said Mats Andersen, caressing his M66 floorstanding 2.5-way tower ($3000/pair). DLS manufactures its own drivers—in the case of the M66, they are a 28mm fabric dome tweeter…
DEQX's PDC3 preamp/processor (price tdb) combines an analog preamplifier with a DAC and measurement-driven DSP. In a hotel room with zero treatment, Jon Iverson and I were enthralled by the three dimensional soundstaging of a pair of B&W 805s and a pair of B&W ASW 700s. Nope, it wasn't because the CD player was fabulous, either—it was solid, but not audiophile approved.
"Come back later," Sasha Case said. "We're going to demonstrate our new active, adjustable crossover and that's a difference that isn't even debatably subtle. It's amazing."