Who is your favorite female vocalist?
A female voice can be tough to properly record and reproduce, yet a great vocalist can transcend the technology. Opera star, singer/songwriter, jazz chanteuse, punk icon—who is your favorite female vocalist?
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Describe your personal hi-fi hell, or tell us about your most treacherous hi-fi demon.
The path to audio nirvana sometimes takes us in dark and difficult directions. We must fight terrible evils (such as room nodes) and stand strong against great adversities (such as <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/making_music_again/">static electricity</a>) to achieve sonic bliss. We have all encountered our fair share of audio demons. Describe your personal hi-fi hell, or tell us about your most treacherous hi-fi demon.
Do you attend classical music concerts?
Though the recordings sell in <A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/29/AR20100… numbers</A>, the real thing continues to thrive. Do you attend classical music concerts?
Do you own, or have you ever owned and used an open-reel tape deck?
Clearly, many of you still cherish your cassette decks, but what about <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reel-to-reel_audio_tape_recording" target="new">open- reel</A>? Do you own, or have you ever owned and used a reel-to-reel or open-reel tape deck?
Do you still use a cassette deck?
In his <A HREF="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/">blog</A>, Stephen Mejias reports on the resurgence in cassette-only releases and is now looking for a good deck. Do you still use a cassette deck?
Do you buy classical music?
A <A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/29/AR20100… article</A> details the lackluster sales of classical music discs. Do you buy classical music?
How do you feel when high-end audio manufacturers use mass-market components as the basis for their own products?
Recently, there has been a on-line furor over an audio manufacturer having supposedly re-badged another manufacturer's component as its own (with a sweeping price increase). This <A HREF="http://forum.stereophile.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=80790">pra…; has been going on for years: Some high-end audio manufacturers have always taken mass-market components and used them as the basis for their own products. How do you feel about this?
Was there anything at CES that got you excited this year?
Another Consumer Electronics Show has come and gone. Was there anything at CES that got you excited this year?
Do you have need for a USB DAC?
USB endowed DACs appeared all over CES last week. Do you have need for one?
Is there anything you're hoping to see from manufacturers at this year's CES?
The Consumer Electronics Show begins this week in Las Vegas, and hundreds of new audio products have already been announced. Is there anything you're hoping to see from manufacturers?