Do You Audyssey?
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Doesn't Include Pumpkin
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
Dollars and Sense
Don't Do It Alone
I don't know how this works — I'm guessing it's just some sort of the usual, run-of-the-mill collective (un)conscious pinging internet magic — but if you take a look at the bottom of any one of the pages on the Stereophile website, you'll find a list of "Sponsored Links," seemingly appropriate to the page itself.
Don't Forget, Remember to Pick Up Some Beer
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Don't Let The Rain Come Down
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Dope Body: Natural History
Dope Body’s Drag City debut, Natural History, was released earlier this week. It kills. You’ll read (I hope) in my July, August, and September “Entry Level” columns that I use the album to evaluate the rocking capabilities of the PSB Alpha B1, Polk RTi A3, Definitive Audio SM 45, and Tannoy Mercury V1 loudspeakers—all worthwhile choices.
Doubts, Of Course
"I can't see anyone getting into analog without a record-cleaning machine."
—Michael Fremer, Stereophile, Vol.19 No.6, 1996
—Michael Fremer, Stereophile, Vol.19 No.6, 1996
Dreaming of Cleaning
If you visit our News">http://www.stereophile.com/news/">News Desk, you'll find my announcement of Michael Fremer's latest DVD, It's">http://www.stereophile.com/news/itsa_vinyl_world_after_alli/">It's A Vinyl World, After All. While Michael offers an entertaining look into the world of vinyl manufacturing and provides tons of valuable information on record collecting, handling, cleaning, and storage, I did have one minor criticism:
Dreams
I dreamed that I was back in">http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/what_happened_in_puerto_rico/… Puerto Rico with the Vivian Girls. They asked me to work on a new song with them. We decided to set up a rehearsal space at my aunt’s beach house. It was taking us awhile to get the instruments properly set up, and Katy was becoming anxious, but I soothed her nerves with a stunning spread of snacks and candies: finger sandwiches, kiwis, grapes, pomegranates, baskets of popcorn, bowls of pretzels and chips, towers of Twizzlers, tall pyramids of Almond Joy…