Until You Fall in Love with the Diamond Rain
“Are these things on?”
Stephen Mejias
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A Synth Wave and Crickets
I really love the comments tool, but I wish it would notify me of when new comments are left for old blog entries. Because it doesn’t, I have to scroll through each entry and check. This isn’t such a big deal, but it does mean that I’ll miss a few comments every now and then, or that it’ll take me a few days to get around to them. And that’s not cool because web-time flies.
Response to Mr. David Andrews
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Good Guys Gone Bad
Good Guys, the California A/V retailer that overextended itself in an aggressive build-up plan that maxed out at 71 stores, is not long for this world. CompUsa, which acquired the chain in 2003, closed six free-standing Good Guys stores and another five CompUSA/Good Guys megastores in late September. CompUSA will close the remaining 25 stores and three regional distribution centers within 80 days—following <A HREF="http://www.goodguys.com/canv.htm">liquidation sales</A>.
Ray Samuels Audio Launches The Hornet
Ray Samuels Audio, long well-regarded for its tube-based home audio components, is developing a reputation for its portable designs, too. After reviewing the <A HREF="http://stereophile.com/headphones/905ray/">SR-71</A>, I figured Samuels couldn't make things any smaller.
Huckleberry, Bagheera, and Me
I stood in my kitchen, looking around, dumbly: “What am I forgetting?”
SunnComm Upgrades MediaMax
Efforts to restrict the ways consumers use music they have purchased continue unabated. <A HREF="http://www.sunncomm.com">SunnComm</A> (along with its sales and marketing arm <A HREF="http://www.mediamaxtechnology.com">MediaMax</A>) has announced that its "newest patent-pending passive technology makes it even more difficult to bypass or 'hack' the copy protection structure contained on the MediaMax CDs."
Cary Audio Design CD303/300 CD player
Is it a trend or just a fad? That's what some of us want to know when we stumble over a new way of doing things, the implication being that a trend is somehow better than a fad.
Bozak Concert Grand B-410 loudspeaker
The Bozak Concert Grand is a loudspeaker dreams are made of. I was just a boy, but I remember to this day the impressive pictures of them in <I>Audio</I> magazine. I thought they must be the best loudspeakers ever made because they were so <I>big</I>—they would let more of the music come out. I suspect the Bozaks beckoned to me in some primal way, just as those giant construction trucks do—the ones that have tires bigger than a man.
Leveling the Playing Field
Although you're reading this in October, I had to write it in the middle of summer's dog days—what Washington journalists used to call "the silly season," not so much because there's anything inherently funny about August, but because, in pre-AC DC, all the legislators went home then to escape the heat and humidity, leaving the press corps with little to write about other than "man bites dog" stories.