It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that an audiophile in possession of a good hi-fi must be in want of room treatment. The problem, most audiophiles agree, is that said treatment tends to be expensive, big, and fugly. Nucore Technologies, Inc. of Hillsborough, TN and RealTraps of New Milford, CT have some innovative new solutions.
All of a sudden, it seems there's a renaissance in in-ear monitors. Used to be there was just <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/headphones/805">Etymotic</A>, but now Etymotic, <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/headphones/504shure">Shure</A>, and <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/headphones/1204ultimate">Ultimate Ears</A> are all producing high-performance in-ear headphones. It's almost enough to make me suspect we audiophiles have become a marketing juggernaut.
My review of the David Hazeltine-George Mraz Trio's <I>Manhattan: The New York Sessions</I> has been posted on <I>Face the Music</I>.
According to Sam Anderson, "To the millions of us flitting around the edges of hipness, he is our Geek Bard, our Troubadork."
Bagheera throws her hands in the air like she just don't care.
Perhaps not brilliant in content, but certainly dazzling in its execution.
I like "Existential Threat," which strikes me as almost as funny as my favorite <I>real</I> existential road sign, which I spotted in an arroyo on I-25 between Albuquerque and Santa Fe: "Gusty Winds may exist."
You've got to love an essay that begins, "It is a universally acknowledged truth that a movie studio in possession of a good fortune must be in want of Great Books."
At a get-together the other night, I observed John Atkinson squinting at his cell phone when he received an in-coming call, and parroted Jon Stewart's remark that the amazing thing about the Mark Foley scandal wasn't that there was abuse in the page system, but rather that a 54-year-old could text message.
