Wes Phillips

<B>New Naims:</B> At CEDIA 2006, Naim introduced two new products to the North American market: the $1500 NAC122x preamplifier and the $5750 n-Vi all-in-one home entertainment system (DVD-CD player/processor/five-channel amplifier).

On September 26, Sirius Satellite Radio announced the availability of the $350 Stiletto 100, "the company's first live portable radio, featuring WIFI, Yahoo music purchasing software, and the ability to save music subscribers love for playback later."

Why listening to music is no longer relaxing. How many times do we have to say it? Enough already with 1dB dynamic ranges!

"I'm so bored," said Bagheera. "You know what to do."

Of course, I'm linking to this one. For one thing, it's a list&mdash;and it's filled with useful information.

You know how all of those articles about Harry Smith's <I>Anthology of American Folk Music</I> identified him as an "experimental filmmaker"? Well, <I>Early Abstractions</I> was one of those experiments.
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My definition of a brilliant book review is one that interests you in a subject you wouldn't have devoted five seconds to&mdash;interests you enough to spend many hours contemplating it.