LATEST ADDITIONS

As far as I can tell, Santa Fe&ndash;based speaker engineer <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/interviews/694">John Bau</A> had designed but four commercial loudspeakers before the TC-60 was launched at the 1994 Winter CES: in order of appearance, they were the Spica SC50i (1980), the <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/standloudspeakers/446">TC-50</A&gt; (1983), the <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/floorloudspeakers/693">Angelus</A&gt; (1987), and the SC-30 (1989). None were expensive, and all garnered much praise, both in <I>Stereophile</I>'s pages and elsewhere.

The latest edition of <I>Audio</I>'s annual equipment directory lists 238 speaker manufacturers. At best I can claim to have heard one product from 10&ndash;15% of the manufacturers on this list, and the top of the current product line from a far smaller percentage.

They're all in your head and they "reverberate in an electrical limbo state that almost, but not quite, comes unglued." That explains so much.

Huckleberry uses the monitor to skritch that chin. Who needs humans?

Neal Strauss, author of <I>The Game</I>, a book chronicling his development as a pick-up artist, has written a great essay about interviewing Ms. Spears using the power seduction techniques he learned.

Today I got <I>The Essential John Denver</I> and a newly remastered reissue of Boz Scaggs <I>Silk Degrees</I> in the same package. Mercy! I got a chill pulling them out of the envelope. Denver and Scaggs together again! What kind of subtle coding was Sony/BMG sending by pairing this dynamic duo? The Seventies really did suck? We're out of ideas so here's two surefire golden oldies? If you thought the George Winston reissues were great then check out these two?

I was surprised to find that we once featured <i>Stereophile</i> t-shirts on a cover.