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March 19, 2009
Sounds like it’s in the room with us
When I was a kid, some members of my father’s generation installed open shelves in their newly built suburban dens so they could put their hi-fi components on display. These pieces of the new electronics were “chassis only,” mounted without casings, so that we all could see and marvel at the tubes and circuits of the amplifiers, the belts, gears and motors of the turntables. The wires along the radial arm that held the new stylus were uncovered, too. RCA pre-amp circuits, Leak amplifiers, early McIntosh. Stuff like this.
These were the fellows who bought stacks of sound-effects records instead of big-band LPs. (In our neighborhood, the audiophile was Dr. Pokorny—a dear, gentle and most modern man who impressed my young self so much that I went home and took the plastic outer shell off of my Motorola shelf radio.)
Anyway, every now and then, just every now and then, for a fleeting moment, I get an eerie feeling that something like the old vacuum-tube fetishism has returned. This time it’s come to bookworld. And sometimes I wonder whether, for a little while—as the new technology settles in—the texts on our e-book readers, especially if they’re on a 260k-color screen, with Bluetooth and high-speed wireless LAN, will just have to be something like monophonic Hi-Fi sound-effects records.
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