This strategy has served my life story well. It has placed me without striving in countless cinema-worthy locations, hanging with all types of legend-worthy characters.
Lately, that corner where I stand wearing the right hat is in front of the Polish newsstand at the intersection of Manhattan and Greenpoint Avenues in Brooklyn.
Twice in two weeks, I woke up early to be standing by that newsstand at the right time for my friend Beau to pull up in his metallic blue saloon. Both times I got in, I neglected to ask where we were going. Both times, I ended up somewhere like Oz or Wonderland. Both times, I came home thinking "Wow, I am blessed to be a traveler in this audiophile hobby. It keeps putting me on roads, opening doors, and introducing me to wizards, scholars, monks, and abbots."
The first time, I thought we were driving to see our friends Dave and Jeffrey of Salt Cellar EMIA fame,' but when I stepped out of the car, I was standing in tall grass in front of a raised-bank barn built in the 1830s. The barn's nearest door framed its far side door, which framed a miles-deep landscape on the leeward side of the structure. (See photo.) For a long moment, the scent of clover dominated my attention. Then I spied acres of it all the way to the forest at the edge of the valley. "So, Beau, where are we? Did we crash on the highway and pass through the Vail?"
Just then, framed in the first doorway, I spied the Paganini-like silhouette of my old friend Pern, an authentic audio monk, whom I've known since I was building amps under the tutelage of mutual friend and humble wizard Arthur Loesch. Pern was Arthur's running buddy and part of a gang I was a member of.
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Audia Flight FLS10
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Totem Acoustic Element Fire V2
Totem Acoustic was founded in 1987, in Montreal, Canada, by a former high school math teacher named Vince Bruzzese. The company's first product, the Model 1 loudspeaker,' impressed me so much I bought a pair.
MoFi Electronics MasterDeck
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Soulution 727
AImost 14 years have passed since a review of a Soulution product appeared in the pages of Stereophile.\"
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Alex goes to Japan
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Wilson Audio Specialties The WATT/Puppy
Since the original WATT/Puppy concept kicked off in the late 1980s,' there has been a 40-year evolution leading to the latest version reviewed here.
