I am thinking of going to <a href="http://www.stereophile.com/news/120308deep/">this</a> on Saturday. I wonder if there are any good <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=record+stores+near+247… shops in the area</a>.
In a way, I started writing <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/the_dresses_the_shoes_and_the… Ryan Adams piece</a> at the moment I dropped the needle on the record—around two, or maybe closer to <i>three</i> weeks ago now. Words, however, weren't typed onto this computer screen until last Monday. Normally, I don't spend so much time on a blog entry. For better or worse, these entries usually end on the day they begin, but other things—work, Thanksgiving, life—kept getting in the way of my completion of the <i>Cardinology</i> piece. I think I could have finished it all in one day had I had the opportunity, and I also think it could have been a better piece if I had, but I am nevertheless happy with it.
Michael Fremer will participate in a roundtable discussion titled, "Deep Listening: Why Audio Quality Matters," held at the Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of the Imagination (247 East 82nd Street, NY) on Saturday, December 6, at 2:30pm.
<a href="http://forum.stereophile.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=54397&an=0… directed us</a> to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/02/technology/techspecial2/02table.html?… excellent and encouraging article</a> in the New York Times.
My heart is not broken. It is collapsed like the sun into the frozen Meadowlands. Sometimes, alone in bed at night, I get this awful, screaming pain in the side of my bony chest, in that empty space where I imagine you to be. It's not often that I do this, sit here. Listen to the same sad songs over and over again, sing along, cry, think of how these words were written for us. It's probably not a good habit to be getting into, but it seems I just can't stop. It's been more than two weeks now, and it isn't wearing off. Twelve songs, 40 minutes, over and over again. I can't stop. Remember when you said that no one else could ever love me like you loved me? I don't know if that was a gift or a curse, but I believe it is true.
Remember <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/cold_weather_usb_phono_preamp… I wrote last week</a> about my dream listening room? Some nice furniture, DeVore Fidelity loudspeakers, Shindo amplifiers, walls lined in vinyl LPs, all that?
It's not all-audio all-the-time in the <i>Stereophile</i> forums. Every once in awhile, a fellow likes to turn down the stereo and reach for <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>, <i>Mother Jones</i>, <i>The Economist</i>, <i>Sports Illustrated</i>, <i>King</i>, whatever.
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