Talk of the Town
Saturday, December 5, 11am–5pm: Talk">http://www.talkofthetownvideo.com/welcome.html">Talk of the Town will host an “Audio, Video, & Home Theater Demo Day.” Show highlights will include demonstrations of SIM2’s C3X Lumis Host projector; Marantz’s 9004 Reference Blu-ray player; Totem Acoustics’s Wind">http://blog.stereophile.com/ssi2009/totem_wind_design/">Wind Design loudspeakers; Classe’s SSP-800 preamplifier-processor with Dolby TrueHD and DTS-MA surround decoding; McIntosh’s MA7000 integrated amplifier; and Meridian’s DSP 5200 digital active speakers and Sooloos Music">http://www.stereophile.com/mediaservers/908sooloos/">Music Server System.
Tangent Audio AMP-100 and CD-100
The Tangent Audio AMP-100 and CD-100 cost $350 each.
Tapered Tube Loading
The Vivid G1Giya, designed by Laurence Dickie, incorporates the “tapered tube loading” concept originally developed for the B&W Nautilus. Inside the tapered transmission line are several strands of damping fiber.
TEAC W-600R
The TEAC">http://www.teac.com/consumer_electronics/cassette_decks/w-600r/">TEAC W-600R double auto-reverse cassette deck plays tapes(!), offers all sorts of unnecessary conveniences (like Fast-Forward and Reverse), costs $149, and is available NOW.
Teaching Elizabeth's Plants to Swear
Elizabeth is leaving us, and she doesn't care.
Teen: "Better"
Can anyone identify the big loudspeakers seen in the background of Teen's video for "Better"?
Teen: In Limbo
Other than the fact that they’re a bunch of cute girls with a suitably high level of cute-girl energy, Teen isn’t the sort of band I typically get into. They’re not rapping about sex and money; they’re not just turning knobs on analog synths or chopping up bits of field recordings; they’re not sampling obscure 78s; they’re not playing 24 saxophones at once; they’re not making their guitars sound like vacuum cleaners; they’re not really lo-fi, but they’re certainly not hi-fi; they’re neither terribly weird nor completely normal. They’re somewhere in between. And, if you know me, you know that I tend to run screaming from that sort of thing. But there’s something about Teen’s sound, despite the fairly straightforward instrumentation (guitars, drums, keys, voices, percussion) that keeps me coming back.
That, by itself, is probably reason enough to buy the record, but I remain conflicted.
Tell Your College Students
I gotta say, if I had a summer to while away and found this">http://jobview.monster.com/getjob.asp?JobID=55707806">this job opportunity, I'd be all over it, too.
That Bitch-Goddess, Success
That Brennan Guy
I received a voicemail from Eileen on Friday night, which said something like: "You missed my phone call again, and I’m here with Sean and Omar and Allison and Justin and Lauren and Scott and Cheryn, and we’re all waiting for you, and you’re lame."