a few miles from plattsburg,
a few miles from plattsburg,
global positioning system
global positioning system
Stephen Mejias
montreal is:
montreal is:
two spiral staircases
two spiral staircases
a mist this gray morning drops
a mist this gray morning drops
upon the curves
upon the curves
On Our Way to Montreal
The Salon">http://www.stereophile.com/news/montreal_audio_show_starts_friday/">Sal… Son & Image hi-fi show opens on Friday, March 26, in Montreal, one of the world’s friendliest and most colorful cities. Tomorrow morning, John Atkinson will arrive at my front door, and we’ll drive the 376 miles from Jersey City to Montreal’s Hilton Bonaventure, where its rooftop garden and two floors of music await us.
The Room, Today
And here's how the">http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/the_weight_of_my_loneliness/"… room looks today. As I said, it looks, feels, and sounds like home.
(Don’t F With) Dre Day
You might’ve noticed my big smiling mug on the stereophile.com home page today, calling attention to my review of Monster">http://www.stereophile.com/headphones/monster_cable_beats_by_dr_dre_stu…’s Beats by Dr. Dre headphones. When I posed for that picture—a few months ago and with a hellish hangover from a night of fun spent at John">http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/at_the_monkeyhaus/">John DeVore’s Monkeyhaus—I had no idea that I’d be today’s top model. The photo was the work of our sneaky web monkey, Jon Iverson. I came into the office, went to our site, and spit coffee all over my monitor. Hilarious.
Transitional Period
For a time, I had my gear sitting on top of my new Ikea">http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/the_weight_of_my_loneliness/"… Expedit bookcase. An identical bookcase sat along the front wall and held a ton of books, but proved visually distracting when listening to music; it also weakened my system's soundstaging abilities.
Progress
My friend, Eloise">http://eloisemoorehead.tumblr.com/">Eloise Moorhead, helped me place the front-wall bookcase on top of the right-wall bookcase, creating a solid stack of vinyl!
Like Home Again
Almost there. And vodka tonics make lifting easier.
Now on Newsstands: Stereophile, Vol.33 No.4
The April 2010 issue of Stereophile is now on newsstands. For the cover, we selected the Monitor">http://blog.stereophile.com/ssi2009/monitor_audio_platinum_200/">Monitor Audio Platinum PL200 loudspeaker. Like Bob Deutsch, I was impressed by this speaker when I heard it at the 2009">http://blog.stereophile.com/ssi2009/">2009 Salon Son & Image, so I was especially pleased by John Atkinson’s decision to highlight it. Our cover photographer, Eric Swanson, and designer, Natalie Baca, were also pleased by the speaker’s great looks: The fine-furniture finish of its Santos Rosewood cabinet, the silvery ceramic-coated aluminum magnesium drive units, the handsome Strathspey leather front baffle, and, ooh, that sexy rear port (see the extreme close-up on page 109!) all worked to win over our design team.