This just in: Jerome Harris dropped me a line announcing a concert tour with Bill Frisell, Jack DeJohnette, and Ben Surman. Unfortunately, it won't be playing anywhere <I>I</I> can go see them, but if you're lucky, you can catch one of these dates.
Ten years ago, John Horgan wrote <I>The End of Science</I>, arguing that scientists had already solved most of the big mysteries of the universe, Has a decade of scientific progress tempered that belief?
Bill Thompson explains how DRM supersedes copyright law and chills creativity.
Mark Mortimer's review of <I>Einstein and the Old One</I> makes an interesting point—just because we "know" stuff our ancestors didn't doesn't actually make us smarter. We "know" without comprehending.
We've received your feedback about the Sonos cover on the latest <I>Stereophile</I>. If you were in charge of the magazine and could put anything you wanted on its cover, what would it be?
On display in the <I>Hi-Fi News</I> Show ballroom were classic Lowther and Voigt drivers (bottom left is an AC mains-energized field-coil Voigt).
Perhaps the amplifier that had the most influence on modern tube-amp design was the D.T.N Williamson, shown here in an example made by Goodsell of Brighton.
On display in the ballroom at the <I>Hi-Fi News</I> Show: an original early-'50s Corner Ribbon speaker from the Acoustical Company, later to change its name to Quad.
A fabulous and fascinating exhibition of classic historic hi-fi equipment made a visit to the ballroom of the <I>Hi-Fi News</I> Show a must. The complete history of Lowther-Voigt seemed to be on display, and a Voigt Corner Horn was actually playing music, from a "vintage" (first-generation) CD player via a compact Pye tube amplifier.
