Wes Phillips

This precision sander puts the lovely exterior finish on the Anat's panels. Yes, the machine does the grunt work, but factory manager Roger Wertz supervises the entire time with his hand on a deadman's switch.

It's an acoustic fourth-order Linkwitz-Riley, crossing over at 1.75kHz, if you're keeping score at home.

More crossover naughty bits.

PSB came to New York in late July to debut its new line of loudspeakers, giving journos an advance peek at them before the official launch at the CEDIA Conference in early September. <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/interviews/231/">Paul Barton</A>, showing a lot of emotion for a normally reserved Canadian, was frankly in love with the four new loudspeakers.

In the waning days of 2007, I delivered some small audio doohickey to John Atkinson one weekend afternoon. "Come down to the listening room," he said. "I want you to hear something."

At Waterstone's website, <A HREF="http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/navigate.do?pPageID=1575">Neil Gaiman interviews Terry Pratchett</A>. If that isn't enough to whet your interest, the interview is accompanied by excellent Paul Kidby illustrations.

When I visited The Louis Armstrong Archives a few years ago to visit archivist Michael Cogswell, Cogswell escorted me back into the stacks to show me Armstrong's collection of 650 open-reel tapes, almost all of which sported collages assembled by the great trumpeter. More than touching his trumpet, I felt a direct connection to Armstrong viewing (and hearing) his mix tapes&mdash;Satchmo was one of us!