by Michael

The fastest browsers…

As you all know, Spintricity is a more modern magazine than your typical audiophile fare… Here is the latest chart, posted this Halloween, which makes it clear why we recommend all browsers EXCEPT Internet Explorer.

We still support IE, but we figure that everybody will have a fast browser soon [and IE may catch up eventually], just like we were the first [and still only?] site to put large photos in our show reports, figuring that most people were going to have broadband sooner or later and most of us want to SEE what is in the photo, not just get a hint or two.

And with the magazine, we figure people want to ENJOY their audiophile addiction, not just research it to death reading long-winded treatises trying to find the one or two WORDS about how it sounds and the subtle HINTS embedded here and there about any problems encountered…

I’m just saying

Not that there are any Audiophile magazines out there like this.

Nope.

😉

Somebody told me a few days ago that they saw each and every page of the 1800 page RMAF report. He uses the Google Chrome browser. I figure it takes about 10 minutes to cruise the entire report, less time than it takes to cruise most other reports: where you have to click on a page, scroll down down to the bottom, click on the link to the next page, wait, wait wait for it to load, scroll down down down to the bottom, click on the link to the next page…. of many other reports.

Since it only takes him 10 minutes, he can stop and zoom in on a photo, click on a link to visit a particular manufacturer’s site, and enjoy the process of seeing EVERYTHING that was at the show [course, this will make it take LONGER than 10 minutes to get through the report, but this will be spending that time the way HE wants to spend it].

Personally, I use FireFox most of the time, and sometimes Safari and Opera, sometimes Chrome. But IE? Might as well go back to dial up!

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 by Michael

The Daily Audiophile has changed it's format

The Daily Audiophile has changed its format to just show the titles of articles and a couple of dozen high-end audio websites/mags/blogs.

Surprised that many have RSS/Atom feeds now. Either that or someone sure keeps busy over there!

There was a page like this on Speshy.com [currently in mothballs. But it… will be back] and think these pages are useful.

Of course, we wouldn’t mind if Spintricity and this blog were a little closer to the top 🙂

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 by Michael

Audio Note AN/E SPe HE speaker in Maple

[Yes, the power is back on. They really do a pretty good job here, considering we are in the mtns and how all the power-lines and pine trees often try to share the same space].

For your viewing pleasure – some photos of the Audio Note AN/E SPe HE high-efficiency speakers in plain maple. Retail price is $7600.00

You will notice that the maple that Audio Note is using is more interesting than the plain jane maple we often see here in the States.

The speakers are also brand new – and compared to the much older (~7 years) maple of the Acoustic Dreams rack, it is lighter in color. But, expect it to also gain some slight patina [color] over time as it ages.

The color in these photos is very close to real. Yes, our carpet has a touch of burgundy in its darkish gray [we thought that the purplish color of the carpet would help it go with the many pieces Mahogany and red Cherry furniture we have – and it does. It also is a little more cheery than plain gray].

But enough about the carpet 🙂 on to the photos!

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