Record Store Day 4/16/11!

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Record Store Day this Saturday! Personally, I think every day is Record Store Day but it’s a great excuse to come buy some records and the electronics to play them on. I will be participating in the “record store crawl”. Bring in a receipt from another participating shop and get 8.25% off anything in the store! This is a great time to pick up that new turntable or speakers!
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Vinyl District Austin
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Ingebrigt Flaten
Fabrication d’une lampe triode
steve buscemeyes
The Ape House
Music Mask hmmm, just close your eyes!
Alzheimers & Music
Jam Magica

i dosing?

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I just heard about “digital drugs” or I Dosing. After reading about the hype on the internet, I’m pretty amused. It’s really nothing new. Biofeedback and music therapy have been around for many years. Yes, music does alter your brain. Why do we listen to music? It’s entertaining and enjoyable. Music is extremely powerful. Look around you. Does hip hop alter your brain to wear your pants at your ankles? Does heavy metal force you to bang your head? Does Reggae make you not want to comb your hair? Of course not, but there is a big scare that kids will become addicted to these brain altering music tracks. I listened to one and frankly it sounds like new age music which explains a lot. So, I urge you not to let your children listen to Yanni because he is a gateway drug.

Zu… coming soon to Whetstone Audio!

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That’s right kids! Whetstone Audio will be one of a few brick and mortar dealers representing the Zu Audio family of speakers, cables and cartridges. I will be getting in the Omen ($1500) and Omen Def ($3100) very soon and will be fattening up the offerings with the Essence, Soul Superfly, cables and cartridges in the months to come. This is a very exciting partnership and one that I have wanted for quite sometime. Zu are an extremely forward thinking company run by music lovers. I’m really stoked to represent and help support a quality “Made in the USA” (a rarity these days!) company that is such a great value. I’ll let you know as soon as they’re on the floor! Should be a week or so.

Naim 2.0 Apps and new US Distributor!

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No, this is no April Fools joke! Naim has updated the N-Serve and N-Stream apps and they are now FREE!! I just downloaded them and they are a big improvement.

Naim has grown a lot in the last year with the introduction of the Uniti line of components. Because of this growth Naim will now be distributed through Sound Organisation. You may notice that I do a lot of business with Steve Daniels who is easily one of the best Hi-Fi distributors in the US. The Naim Inc. crew are still on board but will now be able to focus on training dealers on the new technologies that Naim are so well known for.

This is a very exciting time for Hi-Fi and I’m anxious to see what the future will bring. I’m looking forward to the Naim Brain. You’ll only have to think of a song and it will play through your cerebral vortex. I may have to add the HiCap3 to beef up my frontal lobe…