LPs seem to be in fashion. Yay!

Analog Engagement

and

Hi-Fi Weddings

It is called, somewhat clearmindedly, the Ultra High End Forum.

http://www.ultrahighendforum.com

I haven’t spent much time there, but they do have a lot of photos from Axpona:

Axpona Stereophile Show 2010

As far as “I think they [Corona Plasma Drivers] mate better with [Lansche speaker] dynamic drivers than they [Acapella Plasma Tweeters] do with the Acapella horns.”… well, it’ll certainly make the Lansche people happy to hear that their hard work is going in the right direction. It is certainly a different ‘kind’ of mating… both plasma tweeters having to be ’slowed down’ to the speed of the other drivers. Horns are, of course, faster and so more similar in this way to the plasma tweeters - but the Lansche 2-way we heard was certainly fairly nicely integrated, and it is nice to hear that it looks like the larger, and much more difficult 3-way is doing a good job as well [heck, 95% of speakers can’t integrate their own drivers from the same manufacturer very well, so…. ].

There is a little bit of a wee hissy fit by bloggers and ‘pro’ writers who write about wine.

Here is one article that kind of provides an overview:

Wannabe Wino

First, note that winos have 1000s of blogs while we audiophiles have maybe 10. You can take that to mean there are not many audiophiles, or that we are very passive and apathetic, or we are on average Luddites. [Think the 1st two explanations are close to the truth].

Second, what has bloggers all upset is that someone, a pro-writer [but this is really beside the point - something that the wine bloggers do not grok. It is really passionate and knowledgeable versus casual and novice… NOT old school writer versus bloggers… that ‘about’ was NOT talking about the blogger I linked to who seems to have quite a bit of experience and passion], pointed out that a lot of people are posting their opinions even though their breadth of experience is quite lacking. I.E. they really do not have any real perspective with which to determine and describe what a wine is like … or a piece of equipment sounds like!

And this last is certainly a pet peeve of mine - that many reviewers and most forums post reviews by people who have no clue what they are talking about. For example, how many times have you read ‘Best XZY that I have ever heard!!!’ and then checked out there previous reviews and associated equipment and find out that their system really sucks compared to the piece under review. That YOUR system is way better than theirs… and that YOU would have been able to hear a lot more into what the component can do than they did.

So why do people even read these reviews? Perhaps, as the linked to wine blogger indicated, it is mostly industry types who read them, and, unfortunately, people trying to make a quick buying decision using Google and reviews by anyone who can bang on the keys on a keyboard.

What those people trying to make a buying decision need is a way to rate the Reviewer. Lijit started with this idea, but has changed their business model more often than Fremer changed LPs. Vut the idea is to make a list of quality wine reviewers, quality high end audio reviewers,etc. somewhere so that the internet babel-verse makes some sense.

I think we should do a show report for SXSW next year…

SXSW Party Posters

I’ve started working on Neli already…

SXSW News Channel

Check this out… album covers repainted in MS Paint

Awwww Damn

How cool is this? [OK. King Crimson just jumped out at me, so it is the one I included here. But there are many others ]

[spending way too much time over at Mattters. Who knew I had a thing for Cats and I already knew I loved Indian Food and High End Audio of course. Anyway, a great time waster… [aka information resource] …]

Anyway, we have decided that Audio Fed needs a kick in the pants - so we making a big push to sell our demo gear [No price too low! But seriously, make an offer, we will be nice. We promise] and reposition the store as one of the leading establishments in the world [which it already is in many ways] and to do that we need to make some exciting changes.

No, I can’t tell you what they are : … Neli will kill me if I post them.

But we need to sell some of this great gear we have sitting here before we do anything - so if you have had an eye on something - but thought you should wait… well, now you should NOT wait because these kinds of opportunities only come once or twice.

Hey, so we’re impatient. What’s new? There are things we need to buy, and before that happens we need to sell some things.

So that makes us…. what do they call it… motivated sellers