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Stuff I Didn't Know, Chapter Two-Gazillion-and-One
You can buy glass harmonicas?
Moscode Rocks!
The Moscode 401HR driving the Joseph Audio RM25si loudspeakers were sounding mighty fine. I actually thought they had more moxy than most really expensive systems I heard at the Show, particularly with acoustic music, such as Alison Krauss and Union Station. The top end really sparkled in a most believable way.
Allen Perkins the Drummeister
Immedia's Allen Perkins, the third member of the John Atkinson Trio at their Sunday afternoon concert, is studying with jazz drummer Peter Erskine (Diana Krall, Joni Mitchell).
Bob Reina: Stereophile's "Mr. 88"
Speaker reviewer Bob Reina is actually a classically trained pianist. He's seen here tickling the ivories in a most satisfying manner during the John Atkinson Trio concert at HE2006.
Music Makes Pain More Bearable
Of course, <I>we've</I> suspected this for years, but when <I>we</I> say it, it's just anecdotal. When the <I>Journal of Advanced Nursing</I> says it, it's research.
Declare War on Anti-Science
Heck, it hit us first.
What kind of liner notes do you like with a disc package?
Album cover art and liner notes are great additions to any disc format's packaging, but aside from the artwork, what kind of liner notes do you prefer?
The joys of cooking
I often joke that when I expire and migrate to the lower rings of hell, I'll find nothing else in my eternity than white blues bands playing "Mustang Sally" over and over and over again. But now I may have found another possibility for the soundtrack to my infernal reward.
J-10 gets camera back but Mikey loses his Show bag
Former <I>Stereophile</I> scribe (now PR person) Jonathan Scull (left), blogger Stephen Mejias (center), and surround-sound maven Kal Rubinson—plus webmaster Jon Iverson, Ultimate AV's Fred Mantegian, and your humble servant, taking the picture&151;were having a good
time, about to go out to dinner. Then, in the cab on the way to the restaurant,
Jonathan realized that he had left his new digital camera back at the Sheraton,
on the table that you see in the picture. A frantic call to the Sheraton,
asking them to look for the camera, was to no avail. Then, after dinner, when we
got back to the hotel, as we got out of the cab, we were spotted by Maureen
Jenson, Editor of <I>Home Theater</I> magazine, who called out to Jonathan: "Did you get your camera?" It turns out that Maureen found the camera, and had passed it on to one of the <I>Stereophile</I> staff to return to Jonathan. Disaster averted!