Boards of Canada has just released two new albums. The first is a brand-new domestic CD titled "Twoism". The second is a re-release of an old out-of-print EP titled "High Scores", released in 1996 (and never on CD before now). If anyone's intrerested, I ordered these from GrooveNet down in...

Has anyone heard the soundtrack to the movie "Pi"? I'd never even heard of the movie, let alone the soundtrack. I was in an audio store the other day and after playing Boards of Canada, the guy said I should hear this. It was pretty cool - very different sounding, though. I'm going to go see if...

Tonight, I was listening to Yes' Magnification CD, which is HDCD encoded. My Cary player does both HDCD and upsampling (upsampling can be engaged or disengaged); note that HDCD decoding only works when the upsampling is disengaged as I believe different digital filters are used. Here's the...

Stax SR-007 Omega II Review This is a comprehensive review of the Stax SR-007 Omega II headphones (or earspeakers as Stax refers to them). In extolling the virtues (and pointing out the deficiencies) of the Omega II's, I will include comparisons with the Stax SR-404 (Signature II) and the...

Anybody here familiar with the band Clinic? They're British (and fairly new - they've only got a couple of albums). Their musical style is very hard to pin down. They use guitar and keyboards (organ, piano, electric piano) and some spaghetti-western-sounding harmonica thing. All the...

Based upon posts both here and over at Headwize regarding the great deal that was to be had by ordering Stax products through EIFL, I e-mailed Koji Wakabayashi and obtained a price of $1400 and some change for a pair of the Stax Omega II's (this price included both the $100+ credit card...