If you could travel in time to attend any musical performance in history, what would it be?
Mozart performing in Vienna, Bob Dylan at Newport, the Beatles at the Cavern Club, Duke Ellington at the Cotton Club . . . . If you could travel in time to attend any musical performance in history, what would it be?
If you currently buy vinyl, what genre of music do you purchase most?
Reader Samuel Figueroa says, "Judging from the advertisements I get through email, it would appear that most people who buy LPs listen to jazz." <P> Is this true? If you currently buy vinyl, what genre of music do you purchase most?
If you don't have any high-resolution digital audio discs (SACD or DVD-A) in your collection, why not?
If you don't have any high-resolution digital audio discs (SACD or DVD-A) in your collection, reader Gary Squibbs would like to know why not?
If you had $1000 to spend on audio equipment right now, what would you use it for?
In the spirit of doing our part for the audio economy, if you had $1000 to spend on audio equipment right now, what would you use it for?
If you had to choose, which do you prefer: delayed Show coverage in the print magazine or live website Show coverage?
Until 2006, <I>Stereophile</I> covered audio Shows in the print magazine, usually between three and five months after the event. In 2006, its Show coverage was published almost entirely on this website, live during the Shows. (See, for example, our <A HREF="http://blog.stereophile.com/rmaf2006/">report from this weekend's Rocky Mountain Audio Fest.</A>) Do you appreciate this change in policy and if you had to choose, which do you prefer: delayed coverage in the print magazine or live website coverage?
If you had to choose, which would you dump, your spouse or your audio system?
Answer this one at your own risk: If you had to choose, which would you dump, your spouse or your audio system?
If you had to leave in a hurry and could only grab one thing from your audio system, what would it be?
The hurricane is coming, the fire's running down the mountain, the dust storm approaches—if you had to leave in a hurry and could only grab one thing from your audio system, what would it be?
If you had to pick one primary format for your music, what would it be?
Putting multi-format bundles aside for the moment, if you had to pick one primary format for your music, what would it be?
If you had to pick one, which of the following formats would you choose for your downloads?
Storing downloads is always a balance between fidelity and hard-drive space/costs. If you had to pick one, which of the following formats would you choose for your downloads?
If you had to spend eternity listening to only one song or one piece of music, what would it be?
John Marks ponders the deeper depths of audiophile hell with the following question: If you had to spend eternity listening to only one song or one piece of music, what would it be?