In the December 2005 issue of the UK magazine <I>Hi-Fi Plus</I>, editor Roy Gregory announces that Absolute Multimedia, Inc., publisher of <I>The Absolute Sound</I> and <I>The Perfect Vision</I> magazines, has purchased the British audio journal.
Here in the office, on Christmas Eve Eve, it's just me and the crickets. Wes Phillips, <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/wesphillips/">man of many links</a>, tells me that <a href="http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,9830,1648623,00.htm… are known to shed a leg if they get caught in a sticky situation, but only if they have had sex first</a>.
"Like my speaker? I have another one over there."
"I think the lead channel needs more bite!"
Well, actually they said E differs from mc2 by at most 0.0000004, which is "consistent with equality."
Yet they've been largely ignored by the industry. I don't expect it to change either. My take is that women are buying more e-gear now because a lot of the tech has become mature—for example, you can buy a five megapixel camera for a reasonable price this year. But watch how the industry tries to court the female consumer. You'll see brighter colors and "simpler interfaces" billed as woman-friendly. Sheesh, most women want what <I>I</I> want: a good product at a good price. Instead, they get vanity mirrors.
My wife has suspected this for years.
They're different—physically and functionally.
During that brief, but sad, period when <a href="http://www.donewaiting.com/nyc/archives/002253.php">the Multi-Purpose Solution</a> wasn't making music, I spent some time booking shows at the now gone, but not forgotten, Jersey City rock venue, Uncle Joe's.
Tris McCall has posted his <a href="http://www.trismccall.net/pop_music_abstract_2005.htm">2005 Pop Music Abstract</a>.