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...When you read [his poems] as a female, in the wrong tenor, you feel you are betraying [their] sonic quality,” she said...
...looking, even better today than it did 40 years ago: the tube amplifier. Although almost made extinct in the 1970s by cheaper transistor-based amps, vacuum tubes (also known as valves) are back in the mix for a growing number of high-end audio companies. This isn't just sonic nostalgia: audiophiles have long claimed that tubes pump out warmer, smoother sounds - a result of the low-level distortion that tubes generate - than transistors. If your music goes down these tubes, it's guaranteed to amplify your listening pleasure...
...Cocoon 4 Roth Audio's Music Cocoon 4 ($800) is a powered-up iPod dock that adds depth to digital recordings. But steer clear of audio files that have been highly compressed; even the best tubes can't recover all the sonic details lost in that process. www.rothaudio.co.uk...
...there in the early ‘90s. Fugazi, with its playfully militant clatterings, are clearly a big influence. On “Emergency & I,” the D.C. area’s noisy, slightly self-righteous sound is tempered by relentless, self-deprecating irony and graceful, charismatic sonic power. “Spider in the Snow”—you’re the spider, by the way—best embodies the album’s alienated tone. As the band disinterestedly shifts from lazy funk to Radiohead’s electronic quaver, Morrison?...
With so many budget carriers starting up, they might be a bigger threat to one another than to the major carriers. Thailand has no fewer than seven low-cost operators. In September, Singapore's A-Sonic Aerospace said it plans to start a budget carrier in China with a Chinese state company. Tiny Singapore will be home to three low-cost airlines: Valuair, Jetstar Asia (which boasts Australia's Qantas Airways as a large shareholder) and Tiger Airways (backed by Singapore Airlines). "We'll grow as quickly as we can and fly wherever we can," vows Stephen Johnson of Indigo...