On May 23, <A HREF="http://www.sonos.com/">Sonos</A> announced the release of Sonos Software v 2.2, which adds <A HREF="http://www.pandora.com/">Pandora</A>'s personalized Internet radio service to Sonos' wireless multi-room music systems.
When we last <A HREF="http://stereophile.com/news/042307linn/">heard</A> from Linn, <I>The Scotsman</I> reported layoffs, restructuring, and a hoped-for resurgence. On May 25, we received a note from <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/interviews/1101ivor/">Ivor S. Tiefenbrun</A>, Linn's founder, that he had returned to the positions of chairman and managing director, after an absence of four or five years due to serious health problems, thanks to new medications that have "returned [him] to fitness and restored energy levels."
In his impassioned "<A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/asweseeit/397awsi">As We See It</A>" in May (Vol.20 No.5, p.3), Robert Harley pleaded that the Compact Disc is actually quite a bit better than it sounds, and requested that audiophiles focus instead on the significant improvements wrought in digital sound since its inception. Bob's point—that picking on CD's shortcomings has become a ritual bloodsport within the High End—is well taken: witness my own catty swipe at it in the first sentence. The fact is that the glaring imperfections of the first generation of digital products are now mostly distant memories. Most of us <I>do</I> derive hours of musical pleasure from our CD players and CD collections.
Huckleberry finds humans amusing.
Princess Bagheera gets so weary of people sticking cameras in her face.
I haven't linked to Jon Carroll lately, so here's today's column, which lays out the format for the WE musician interview. Frustratingly true.
Who's that? Now you'll know.
I'd seen Dulce Pinzôn's superhero photographs before, but until I saw them at the Brooklyn Public Library's main branch today, I hadn't realized how moving they were. The exhibit includes Pinzôn's detailed costumes as well, which are surprisingly beautiful.
One day in 1978, I discovered an LP by a woman I'd never heard in the returns bin of the record store I worked in. In theory, my job was to pack those unsold records in boxes and send them to our one-stop for credit, but frequently I ended up buying those unloved discs.
Anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker argues that the autism "epidemic"of autism is actually the result of doctors broadening the diagnosis to include more people—and society becoming more willing to see autism and other mental disorders.