Happy New Year!
When I picked up the mail on Saturday, I had an unexpected package. It contained Vance Dickason's Loudspeaker">http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9781882580477">Loudspeaker Design Cookbook, 7th Edition. Oh boy!
Wes Phillips
Solid Gone
I haven't written lately because my right hand has been in a cast from my fingertips to my elbow—rendering me, as a writer, essentially mute. Writing, thinking, and feeling are, for a writer, inextricably linked. How do I know what I think if I haven't written about it?
Changing Tastes
In my last post (and the story of why it was so long ago is an epic which I won't go into now), I observed that the listener I am today is a completely different critter than the one I was years ago. It's inevitable that time, experience, and liff its ownself change us—and change the way we perceive art.
The Same River Twice
Looking for a small, manageable paperback to read on a commute to Great Neck and back, I picked up a vintage paperback of Ross Macdonald's The Drowning Pool, a novel I'd read 25 years ago. I didn't exactly remember the plot clearly, but my recollection of my fling with Macdonald was that most of his plots dealt with the sins of the grandfathers being visited upon the third generation after.
Music Makes Us Human
I've been reading Daniel Levitan's The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature, which makes pretty strong claims for the importance of those tones in time. (Neil McCormick conducted an interesting interviewhttp://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/neil_mccormick/blog/2009/04/09/evolution_o…; with Levitan in The Telegraph.)
Did Shuffle Kill the Music Industry?
I stayed up late last on April 2—late for me, anyway: 11pm. I watched the last episode of ER in real time. (Hang in there, peeps, there will be an audio point after the jump.)
Just Shoot Me
As an audiophile, one of my core beliefs has always been that, once they have heard better sounding music, everybody would want it. That's how it worked with me: My friend Bill sat me down in front of his Quad '57s and cued David Bowie's Heroes on the turntable and once I heard all of those new sounds coming out of my beloved old LP, I was a changed man.
Tube Toon
Here's an oldie but goodie: a vintage animated Telefunken ad. NOS roolz.
Candid Beatles & Stones Photos
The Telegraph has a slide">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/celebritynews/4942055/… show of 21 previously unpublished photographs of the Beatles and Rolling Stones, taken mostly by their US tour manager Bob Bonis.
Music Matters
Last week I participated in Music Matters IV, the latest in a series of evening events at Definitive">http://www.definitive.com/">Definitive Audio in Seattle. It was my first time, so I didn't know what to expect.