Wes Phillips

The Grolier Club has mounted an exhibition that takes miniature books bigtime.

In audio, there's brand loyalty and then there's McIntosh loyalty. Part of that, of course, is that the manufacturer's black glass face panels and glowing blue meters have become audio icons that generations of audiophiles have grown up lusting after, but part of it is undoubtedly because McIntosh is so very good at fostering a sense of community.

Recently we received an SOS from fearless leader John Atkinson. <I>Dolby is staging a press event on an evening I have a schedule conflict</I>, he wrote. <I>Could you attend in my stead?</I> As obligations go, attending an industry dinner is not exactly the most onerous task going&mdash;alcohol is frequently served (the best way to guarantee the press shows up) and you get to hang out with your fellow A/V journalists, an admittedly mixed blessing. What is not assured is that there will actually be news.

. . . Not Huckleberry.

"my youth i shall never forget
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but there s nothing i really regret
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wotthehell wotthehell

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there s a dance in the old dame yet
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toujours gai toujours gai"

It's always right.

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