If necrophile means what we imagine it must, then why in Scrod's name would anyone want to be described as an audiophile? Do we really go to a CES trade show hoping to encounter Steve Guttenberg writhing on a Persian carpet with a Zana Deux Super pressed against his pelvis?

Hate to mention something I normally wouldn't bray about in public, but I want to be certain it won't be a Gilmorean Liteknot for anyone else. I happen to own a last-gen iFi iDSD Nano (the model is unimportant) and flog a Windows 10 Pee Sea in an orifice environment (don't arsk). To use the...

When it comes to DACs that don't simply drain your Android bijoux ("AB") but charge them or allow them to be charged, what are the choices? Beyond the hoary FiiO E18 and Verza, are there any new options, perbe?*   I'm not talking about a DAC with internal batteries that allow it to remain...

Here is one of the greatest composers of the 20th century transcribing a recording of a Hungarian folk song that only survived due to his efforts:       Apparently, his expression and posture didn't change through the course of the brightening day:     Here's Béla Bartók (fourth from...

In anticipation of the intriguing sound exhibit that's about to open at MoMA, I happened to revisit Tristan Perich's 1-Bit Symphony the other day, which is formatted as a standalone synthesizer/sequencer assembled by hand and attached to a CD jewel case --     -- which the listener...

We all know that the assignment of gender to objects tends to be arbitrary.  If not, then the French language might prove to be suburbanite-disturbing (cf. la jeep).   As it turns out, the same level of institutionally enforced caprice applies to color.   Gender assignations of color are...

I'm moved beyond human reason to report that my story "Alphanumerica" appears in the current issue of what is now the online magazine Evergreen Review.  The story enjoyed first-item status last week, but I hesitated to tell you about it until I'd finished toying with the first paragraph.  (Will...

Today while scrutinizing V-Moda's siteful o' pointy metal pivots, Giger-spined retractable accessories and incisor-shaped sexphones (sorry -- I meant erotophones), I realized that, despite his obsessive targeting of various unmined niches -- such as that intersection between audiophilia, DJ...

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Fellow fallow Head-Fi members:   I'm thrilled beyond sanity and pants to report that Sensitive Skin #8 is now inflicting its wrath upon the web and your local bookstore (yes, the one you own)! May its treble entendres singe your pelvic eyebrows!  It features a rare interview with William...

  As every inveterate Googler must know by now, yesterday was Charles Addams's birthday. What you might not know is that his first wife, Barbara Jean Day, was the inspiration for Morticia (pictures follow), that Charles was a latter-day Casanova whose romantic interests included Greta Garbo...

On January 14, 2011, Trish Keenan, vocalist and co-founder of the British group, Broadcast, died of pneumonia after contracting H1-N1 flu during a tour of Australia.  Known for her clear intonation and lack of vibrato, ability to write simple melodies that evoke the past hauntingly, and interest...

Scrypt, here, wishing you all a swell (but not sweltering) end of summer.    And how are you faring during this lovely heat lull, anynonce?  Conditions on my tourniquet o' turf seem relatively humane.  Hope you can say the same (or "sam," as the beggar with magnetized lips pronounces it...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...s-suicide.html Quote: British fashion designer Alexander McQueen has been found dead after taking his own life. The 40-year-old committed suicide just three years after his close friend, Isabella Blow - who plucked him from obscurity and helped...

(This is for Jude, who asked me to post the following email on Head-fi.) ================================================== == No, it's not an April Fool's Day joke -- Microsoft really is planning a Limited Edition Joy Division Zune to coincide with the release of a DVD documentary about...

Colorware'd iPod owners: Do you own a tinty-fresh 4G or 5G? If so, which case do you use? Do you recommend your case and, if so, has it preserved the finish of your iPod's paint job over time? What other cases would you recommend? Which cases would you not recommend? I've done research...

I don't know about the rest of you haggard cap peelers, but I'm elated my retirement's dependent on the stock market. Have a look at this: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/announcem...ake-261101.php An anonymous Apple employee forges an internal memo stating erroneously that the release of the...

At some point during the weekend, I'll be posting my notes on Stereophile's Home Entertainment Show here (right now, I'm required to catch a train). However, since immtbiker, Ian and others were in attendance, I thought it necessary to create a thread so that they and other attendees could post...

I've just returned from the Home Entertainment Show and will post my thoughts on same in the Member's Lounge. However, this couldn't wait: The biggest news of the show for Head-fi members. Vinnie Rossi is about to offer an iMod for the iPod 5G in collaboration with Ken Ball of Audio Line Out...

I thought this might be an interesting place to discuss the joys of listening to damaged vinyl: how extra layers of artifacts and flaws can add to the pleasure of listening to certain recordings. I'll begin by posting myself (see below), but don't feel obligated to respond to my thoughts on Tri...

Today, while stirring my coffee with my lemur’s lingam, I was astonished to open the Financial Times and find a picture of the oft-cerebrated Etymotic ER-4. After depositing the IEM's miniature lobes in the sink, I continued to read FT columnist Paul Taylor's ecstatic appraisal of the E500...

Yoo-hoo -- any composition students or grads on these boards? If so, Mein Kampf, this morsel struggles toward you.* Yahs ago, when your lonesome was studying the orchestration manifestos of Piston, Kennan and Rimsky-Korsakov (as well as peeping Russo's Composing for Jazz Orchestra in my ample...

Here, for the benefit of anyone who happens to be interested, are my thoughts (as posted elsewhere) on surrealism in English and American literature. ======================= Andre Breton is not always the most reliable source for surrealist literary theory. When attempting to define and...

While I'm neither a fan of Grossman's fiction nor a supporter of the positions he sometimes advocates, I was amazed to read the speech he gave in the presence of, and sometimes to, Prime Minister Elhud Olmer. The occasion: to commemorate the passing of Prime Minister Itzak Rabin, who, before he...

Ms. Squealzibule and I were just jawing about this: The new release arose (figuratively) after I'd screened a taste of the ineffably bad version by MCI. M.S., despite said bad, wanted more due to the lobe-infecting excellence of the content: The release. A bit o' background...