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There has been a never ending debate about the best way to listen to music. Vinyl? CD? Hi resolution CD? Neuro-flektiquantum laser fluxpod? Most audiophiles use digital media such as CD’s these days, but a survey by Stereophile Magazine has come up with some interesting results.
Continue reading " Audiophiles abandoning CD’s? … say it ain’t so! "
Thomas Edison (or his students, one really never knows with him) worked on the carbon microphone in 1876. Since then, microphone technology has come a heck of a long way, from liquid microphones that rendered speech so you could actually understand it (early mics couldn’t render speech intelligibly), to condenser mics used for studio [...]
Continue reading " The sounds of (almost) silence - hearing the heartbeat of a snail "
How about a musical instrument so big you could stand in it? How about one so big you could walk around in it? Screw that, Here’s one that you can actually LIVE in.
This one ranks right up there with the weirder musical instruments. The Beer Organ is a keyboard device that actuates compressed air which blows over the openings of beer bottles.
There once was a band from Liverpool, England….
A railway startion in Liverpool decided one day to celebrate the Fab Four’s accomplishments by creating an artwork topiary recreation of the Beatles outside the station. The artwork, which took 18 months to grow and shape, was unveiled a couple of months ago.
Continue reading " Ringo gets beheaded .. or maybe someone just forgot to water him. "
Well, I’d say this is the first step in their nefarious plan to take over the world and enslave all the humans. Remember Honda’s ASIMO robot? Well it looks like the robot has been invited to be a guest conductor for the Detroit Symphony orchestra (which includes famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma.)
In March of 1967, Jimi Hendrix went up on stage at London’s Finsbury Astoria and gave an electrifying performace - it built up to a frenzied dramatic ending, when he doused his guitar in lighter fluid & burned it.
Hendrix had to be rushed to hospital with minor burns to his hands after the stunt, and the guitar, slightly damaged [...]