Saturday, May 31, 2025
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
I took my parents to buy a new TV the other day, and starting thinking about how the experience of buying electronics has changed. Dude, I used to read Stereo Review every month. Even the ads (maybe I especially the ads) were magical, and I spent what in hindsight was a lot of time window shopping for turntables and tape decks. Stereo equipment was cool. The buttons, knobs, dials and switches were cool. The lights were cool. The sound quality (which was, after all, the point) was exciting to explore. It just ain't like that anymore. Audio equipment is pretty much a commodity item now unless you are going super high-end. Most of my casual listening is Bluetooth from my phone over small speakers, and although I can hear the difference in quality I am not driven to bust out the vinyl very frequently. As with record shopping something that once brought me a great deal of idle pleasure has been lost.
Thursday, May 08, 2025
Outstanding piece of writing by Karen Durbin that just happens to be about the Rolling Stones, sort of.
