Maybe It's My Post-CES Stupor
But change the name of the companies involved and I heard every one of the claims in "The Top 10 Lies of Entrepreneurs" uttered at one point or another this past week.
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A Musical Taste Algorithm?
Hah—I'd like to see the program, that could figure <I>me</I> out!
Sorry Professor
I just solved your unsolvable math problem.
And You Thought Grateful Dead Concerts Were Long
World's longest concert sounds second chord after one-and-a-half years. It's A, C, and F#—gonna take a while to resolve <I>that</I> one.
Banished Word List
What a great idea. Can I add <I>absitively</I>?
Is Cantonese Disappearing?
Languages change and die all the time, but can one spoken by so many people really be vanishing?
Obviously: Leaving Las Vegas
I'm sitting in the hotel lobby, at a small brown table, with Wes Phillips. Our laptops are caught in a long embrace, staring at one another, making a sort of _/ \_
The Threshold Stasis is Back
The fabled Threshold Stasis amplifier is back. The S/350 reissue, built in China by Threshold International Ltd., is said to have the same circuit as the original, but with updated components. The original cost $3900 in 1992, so for those who long to own this famous amplifier, the S/350 reissue at $2000 is a bargain!
Silverline's New Prelude
Silverline Audio's new Prelude is a slim floorstander combining an aluminum-dome tweeter with two 3.5" aluminum/magnesium-alloy mid/woofers. Designer Alan Yun was running the speakers with a pair of Pass X600s (600Wpc), an unusual combination intended to show the speaker's potential for dynamics and bass extension—and it certainly did that. Nice, smooth sound, too. The Prelude seems like a real bargain at $1200/pair.
Anything from the recent CES pique your interest?
A wide variety of audio products, from portable to extreme, are announced every year at the Consumer Electronics Show. Anything from the recent CES pique your interest?