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Accordion Guy's Disappointed in Margot Timmins
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Wes Phillips  |  Jan 20, 2006  |  1 comments
Joey deVilla, aka Accordion Guy in the 21st Century, is disgruntled (trust me, Accordion Guy is at his best when he's not gruntled). His beef? The fundraising dinner held last night for Canadian MP Sam Bulte, aka Hollywood's MP, because of the perhaps coincidental linkage between her advocacy of extremely restrictive copyright legislation and her acceptance of financial support (57% of her campaign war chest) from institutions such as the Canadian Motion Pictures Distributors Association, Canadian Publishers Council, and the Entertainment Software Alliance.
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Accuracy!
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Wes Phillips  |  Jul 30, 2008  |  3 comments
Geva believes that measurements don't lie—well, he allows that they can fib, but that a competent engineer should be able to interpret them with great accuracy. He uses aluminum and ballistic allow instead of wood or MDF, he said, because they are the "most resonant free, deadest, stiffest, strongest, least diffractive, and most sonically desirable materials ever found."
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Acme Klein Bottles
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Wes Phillips  |  Dec 29, 2005  |  0 comments
From the number one manufacturer of defective explosives.
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AcousTech Electronics PH-1 phono preamplifier
Phono Preamp Reviews
Wes Phillips  |  Jun 05, 1998  |  0 comments
Audiophiles with budget restrictions (most of us, I imagine) could be forgiven for feeling we're afterthoughts to most manufacturers. Even though we probably keep most companies in business by buying their "entry-" or mid-level products, we're always hearing about products designed "without compromise." Waiter, could you bring the reality check, please?
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Acoustic Resonance Antigravity
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Wes Phillips  |  Aug 28, 2006  |  1 comments
You take a 600 Hz tone and adjust the amplitude and phase relationships among three speakers. My buddy Jeff swears he saw this done in Jersey with just two loudspeakers, but I think he was just listening at such high volume that his eyeballs were compressing.
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Acoustics From Another Position
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Wes Phillips  |  Jan 30, 2007  |  1 comments
"An audience member unhappy with the sound in their part of the auditorium can change seats, but we [concert pianists] cannot," Byron Janis says. "Therefore the position of the piano on stage is of utmost importance—moving it only a foot in either direction can make an enormous difference in the sound and therefore in the performance."
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Action Painting
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Wes Phillips  |  Jun 22, 2006  |  1 comments
Jon Iverson sends along this deeply meaningful site, commenting, "Fun for hours!"
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Adcom GFP-750 preamplifier
Solid State Preamp Reviews
Wes Phillips  |  Mar 15, 1999  |  1 comments
Adcom is one of those companies that's just too consistent for its own good. Year after year, they put out well-engineered, fairly priced gear, while we audiophiles become jaded and almost forget they're there... You want a good-sounding CD player that doesn't cost an arm and a leg? [Yawn.] Well, you could try Adcom. Need a power amplifier with some sock that won't make your tweeters crawl down your ear? There's always Adcom.
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Admit it—You Hate Modern Art
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Wes Phillips  |  Jan 30, 2007  |  1 comments
That's Spengler's argument in this Asia Times essay, at any rate. Within that discussion, however, Spengler muses about why modern art is so much more popular with the public than "modern" music—and that's the hmmm part of his essay—that music, unlike the plastic arts, can only be experienced within time.
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Adult Fairytales
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Wes Phillips  |  Oct 15, 2007  |  0 comments
On the eve of the film's UK release, Neil Gaiman muses on how he came to write Stardust.
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