The (Freudian Id) Stereophile Forums
The Stereophile forumhttp://forum.stereophile.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?Cat=0&C=1">forum; has been hot. I don't even know what's happening—I'm only the Administrator—but two members are really going at it. It's been going on for days. One dude sees things one way, and the other dude sees things in a very different way, and neither wants to meet anywhere near the middle.
The 2007 Stereophile Buyer's Guide
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The 2009 Stereophile Buyer's Guide
Here is a screen shot of Mistral. Mistral is an online tool used to proof magazine pages before shipping to press. It allows several people in remote locations to view pages and exchange notes regarding specifications and corrections. There are several different view options. The view presented here is called "flatplan state." Flatplan state is my personal view of choice. It's kind of like having each page of the magazine tacked up to a wall. It's kind of cool. Though I still prefer old-fashioned pen and paper.
The Stereophile Jalapeno Pepper
I tried, so many times, to write a little something about the Stereophile pepper and golf-coins, but could never get the ideas to grow, could never get them to drop in the hole. See here how Kristina handles it, while kindly declining our CD case (and CDs, in general).
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The 14th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads
The 14th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads will be held on October 21st and 22nd at Blue Heaven Studios in Salina, Kansas.
The 2008 Vacuum State of the Art Conference & Show
The 2008 Vacuum State of the Art Conference & Show will take place on May 24-26 at the Hilton in lovely Vancouver, Washington. VSAC was started in 1997 by Dan and Eileen Schmalle of the Bottlehead Corporation, designers of some">http://www.bottlehead.com/et/et.html">some sexy vacuum tube kit amps and preamps. While the Schmalles are no longer involved in managing the conference, they will be on hand as exhibitors, along with many others offering some similarly sexy, tubey goodness (like Experience">http://www.experiencemusic.net/">Experience Music's The Chase amplifier in the pic above).
The 2013 Pitchfork Music Fest Announces Initial Lineup
While John Atkinson, Jason Victor Serinus, and many more of our friends and colleagues prepare for Axpona in Chicago, where they’ll face what we all hope is this winter’s last frigid gasp, I’ve got my eyes set on this summer’s Pitchfork Music Festival, to be held FridaySunday, July 1921, at Chicago’s Union Park.
I hear it's gonna be hot.
Tickets are on sale now, with single-day passes priced at $50 and three-day passes selling for an attractively discounted $120. But, taking into consideration the outstanding headliners and the well-rounded initial lineup, I suspect most music fans will have a very difficult time attending this Pitchfork Music Fest for just a single day. Three-day passes are practically mandatory.
The initial lineup, highlighted by Bjork, Belle & Sebastian, and R. Kelly, was announced this week:
The Apple and the Orange
I have not listened to a compact disc at home in months. It's kind of crazy. It kind of makes me feel weird about even having a compact disc player. At some point along the road, I figure I'll transform all of my compact discs into invisible bits and pieces on a hard drive and trade the physical objects for more vinyl.
The April 2006 Edition of Our Little Darling
Okay, now that we've sent the March issue off to become beautiful and real, it's time to move on to the April issue.
The Architecture of a Tuesday Afternoon
JA often compliments me on how easily words flow from my fingertips to the screen.