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Audio Research Acquired by Quadrivio
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Wes Phillips  |  Jan 30, 2008  |  0 comments
Audio Research, one of the companies that created the Silver Age of American high-end audio 38 years ago, was acquired by Italian private equity firm Quadrivio SGR on January 25. Quadrivio, which acquired Sonus Faber in 2007, intends to keep Audio Research's current management team in place.
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Dying Is Easy, Comedy Is Hard
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Wes Phillips  |  Jan 29, 2008  |  0 comments
Steve Martin has just published an autobiography, Born Standing Up, in which he describes how he created his comedic persona by using logic. That was the easy part, next he had to figure out how to sell it to the audience.
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CEA Launches Digital Downtown
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Wes Phillips  |  Jan 29, 2008  |  0 comments
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) announced that it will launch "a new consumer technology event," Digital Downtown (D2), 'to showcase the latest electronic lifestyle and workstyle products to residents and employees of Mahattan's Financial District." D2, which will be held from June 12–14 at the Winter Garden of the World Financial Center, will be open to the public, unlike the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
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Smell the Diploma
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Wes Phillips  |  Jan 29, 2008  |  1 comments
Nigel Tufnel gets an honorary degree at the Berklee College of Music.
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Brahms the Baby?
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Wes Phillips  |  Jan 28, 2008  |  1 comments
I was eating tagine with John Atkinson and Cantus' Erick Lichte a few nights ago and mentioned having read Anne Midgette's essay about her antipathy towards Brahms.
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An Industry in Free Fall
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Wes Phillips  |  Jan 27, 2008  |  0 comments
Physical sales of music plummeted at a rate that exceeded the sales growth of legal downloads in 2007, according to the IFPI. While global digital sales grew by 40% in 2007—representing about 10% of all music sold—IFPI figures suggest that CD sales in the US dropped by 19% (10.5% in the UK).
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Hard Day's Hava Nagila
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Wes Phillips  |  Jan 25, 2008  |  0 comments
This is just so wrong, it's right.

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Calm Before the Storm
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Wes Phillips  |  Jan 25, 2008  |  0 comments
Huckleberry likes to sleep just above my keyboard. That part's cool, but when he wakes up, he'll decide to play swat the fingers until I give chase.
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Cardboard Queen
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Wes Phillips  |  Jan 25, 2008  |  1 comments
In her kittenage, before we adopted her, Bagheera was a deli cat. I don't want to psychoanalyze an animal with a brain the size of a walnut, but Bagheera loves cardboard boxes. She will lie on them for hours—unless we do something silly like pet her or notice her. Then she'll go sulk in the corner.
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Bobby Fischer in Iceland
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Wes Phillips  |  Jan 24, 2008  |  2 comments
I feel a bit remiss about not commenting on Bobby Fischer's passing. As a bookish chess-obssessed kid, I lived for his Boy's Life chess column and, during the "Match of the Century," I was hitchhiking to and from Iowa and the Spassky/Fischer battle of wits was always a safe topic of conversation. (1972 was ground zero for the mainstream born again movement and it seemed like half the people that picked me up wanted a conversion in exchange for the ride. Thank goodness for chess!)
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