… at Audio Federation / Spintricity.

Studio Electric brought [an old pair of] their T3 speakers and EA4 hybrid amplifier and we listened and talked and moved things around hither and thither.

We drove the speakers with the Audio Note Kegon and Studio Electric EA4 amps, We used both the Nordost Valhalla and Jorma Design No. 1 speaker cables, we used the Nordost ODIN and Valhalla power cords, in addition to Belden and Acrolink power cords. We also put the amp on the Acoustic Zen Adagio speakers.

Too much fun.

We are going to write this up – but not in a shootout fashion, and not in a review format, and not in a show report manner either, though probably closest to this than the other two. Probably most like the Audiophile’s Guide to the Galaxy.

We want to let people know what the goals of Studio Electric are, how they are going about achieving them, and in general describe the story behind the people and equipment so that you, or your customer, can get a good idea if this is the kind of speaker and amp you should be putting on your short list.

Oh. Yeah. There will be some photos too.

This should appear in a week or two in Spintricity.

Well, Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft’s latest version of its browser, which many people still use, has come and… well, if you are like us, you had no choice but to upgrade from 7. They kind of folded it in with a security update.

We had high hopes for version 8. Kind of put off putting a lot of work into things until this release came out. But instead, 8 is lagging further and further behind the competition in terms of raw speed.

So, tell… ya… what… we’re… going… to… do.

We’ve rewritten a large part of Spintricity (actually magazines.me) and Internet Explorer (i.e. IE), in the ‘lab’, now works on Spintricity about 10 times faster than it used to. About as fast as FireFox used to. Maybe faster.

Of course, FireFox is now about 3 times faster, and Google Chrome, well, I think we’ve achieved warp speed captain.

This should be up on the website next week sometime, we are hoping.

There is a new issue of Spintricity, with several articles already.

I think people will find the breadth and depth of our magazine a little different than the other mags out there.

We have an article on comparing photographic lenses to personal taste in shopping for music.

We have a review of some new music, Fever Ray, the day after it was released and of Pandora, the most popular internet radio site.

We also have a small report on the Hiend Show last fall in Vietnam.

We are always looking for more photos of more shows. Anybody want to photograph Montreal? Munich and Milan if we don’t make it [we probably won’t]?

We are also always look for more writers who want to write about something they are passionate about. You don’t have to know who to spell, or to be an expert at anything – it is passion that we all are wanting to share with other people in this cold cruel often-boring world.