The <I>Stereophile</I> editors are getting ready for CES 2006 and will be reporting live from the show starting Wednesday, January 4. Join John Atkinson, Wes Phillips, Larry Greenhill, Robert Deutsch, Stephen Mejias, and Jon Iverson as they file their reports and photos.
I tried to bring together songs that I love, songs that should prove fun and exciting to listen to, with an interesting variety of sounds and emotions.
Take the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders' Distorted Tunes Test.
Jake Shimabukuro is the Jimi Hendrix of ukulele. You laugh—but listen to this guy!
My favorite is number 100.
This 25-year-old rant by Pauline Kael is even truer today.
All I ever do with it is thicken sauces. Onviously, I lack imagination.
People constantly complain how bad music is these days, but what is the worst of the worst for 2005? What is your choice for worst new recording of 2005?
In his January "Sam's Space" column, while writing about the system he used with Sutherland's Director line stage (p.32), Sam Tellig wrote "For the most part, I used now-discontinued XLO interconnects and speaker cables. XLO itself has been discontinued, alas. I do miss its founder, Roger Skoff."