What's This About?

For years I've been obsessed by recorded audio and its reproduction in the home. This obsession led me to become a Contributing Editor for Stereophile. I'm one of the lower-profile Stereophile editors, but I take it seriously.

Lately I've been listening to records a lot, with great pleasure. I've found myself with a lot of opnions -- about the music and the way it sounds -- and this led to the creation of this blog.

The idea is simple: It's a place where I'll make observations on the music I'm listening to and the equipment I'm listening through. This is not intended to be a review site per se, and there's no pretense of objectivity.  Rather, it's all very personal.

Then again, that -- personal -- is the way I feel that all such things should be. Listening to music is a deeply emotional -- hence, personal -- experience. Sure, there is an 'objective' sound -- sound waves propagating through the air -- but how important is that, really, when it comes to listening to music? Not very, in my view.

So what you'll get here, if you choose to read, is my very personal views about the -- or rather, my -- listening experiences. Lately I've been listening to jazz, so that's the blog's main focus. I'm not a jazz expert, but I have sincere and, I hope, interesting responses to what I listen to.  If you want record reviews, look elsewhere. But I hope you'll find my observations interesting and useful. I hope you'll read.