Continuing upgrades of Spintricity

In the pursuit of optimizing the experience for both you the magazine reader and us, the wacko audiophiles – uh – wacko gigantico magazine show reporters – uh – whoever – we try our best to make both reading and producing multi-thousand page show reports as easy and as fun as possible.

To that end…

We added a Quick! Post a Comment! feature right on each page [in the upper right: that allows you, and us, to quickly post a comment about whatever it is we want to say about a page. As you may have noticed, the avatar [a little picture that represents the inner you – that you can upload after you register, or you can use the default Groucho Marx lookalike.] appears on the right side of the page. Click on one of these guys and you will see their comments.

Of course, their comments are also in the Forum, where War and Peace-like comments can be read in their entirety.

For now, we changed things so that even you unregistered lurker types can post comments – without having to register first – just like in this blog. But, unlike this blog, posters won’t have to indicate that they are human [i.e. not a spam-spewing robot] because robots won’t be an issue until we are very, very successful.

I like these kind of popup comments, because, from my point of view, often times adding permanent text on a show report page kind of clutters up the view of the equipment. We intend on going back to a more traditional magazine look [but with modern weblike features] for the regular articles in regular issues in regular months.

And then maybe we can go back to not being so wacko.

Or not. 🙂

Al Stiefel Leaves Us

Al, perhaps best known, along with his wife Marjorie, as the organizer and co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest, as well being co-partner of Red Rock Audio, left us all to go to that perhaps bigger and hopefully less stressful high-end audio show in the sky.

Al was our friend [who we loved], a supporter of Audio Federation, a supporter of local high-end audio manufacturers, dealers, and audiophiles both here in Colorado, nationally, and world-wide.

A lot of people support these things in spirit, but few [none] throw so much [all] of their energy and time and sweat into it.

There is really no one else [coming even close to] doing what Al did for all of us audiophiles. Just the way he actually cared for and about the success of each and every exhibitor – both at the show and the whole year ’round – is uniquely ‘Al’.

He will be missed and missed and missed…

[RMAF 2009 will, like always, be next October, with organization by Marjorie, and support by Joe Reynolds (Nordost), Ray Kimber and Roy Gregory (HiFi+)]

Finally, Our New Magazine: Spintricity

OK, Everybody,sorry we have been so quiet [this took for-EV-er], but we finally got something up and a few articles posted on the Lamm ML3, Life and Music, ODIN PC shootout and a music review. Much more forthcoming.

Expect things to be a little choppy and a little slow, this is all hot off the internet presses – but hopefully things will smooth out.

Some hints: the left and right arrows on the keyboard (or the mouse’s scroll wheel) allows you to go to the previous and next pages without having to use the mouse.

Please let us know if you have any feedback, comments, suggestions, problems….

Best when viewed with the newer Firefox 3 (or Internet Explorer 7) browsers.

And stay tuned, we have a lot more articles to post [and some more writers as well who now may be more motivated to send in more articles :-)]

Enjoy!
Mike