Jason Davis
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- Parent Category: BloggingOnAudio BloggingOnAudio
- Created: 01 July 2022 01 July 2022
New Noise #5: Moving, in Stereo
We’re moving.
It feels great to finally say it. We’re moving. We’ve been in our current house on the wrong coast for eight years (plus another year in an apartment), the longest we’ve ever stayed in one place. It’s a lovely little mid-century modern at the top of a cul-de-sac in a great spot—near trails, good schools, and community comforts that we value.
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- Parent Category: BloggingOnAudio BloggingOnAudio
- Created: 31 March 2022 31 March 2022
New Noise #4: Little Box #2
Sometime after the last Leo’s Stereo closed, my father would take me to The Wherehouse on Saturday mornings to shop for CDs. When that chain of stores folded, he moved on to Target or Best Buy or Sam Goody at the local shopping mall. That one could own music, a tangible thing for personal enjoyment, shaped my upbringing. What we didn’t know then was that store shopping—seeing the newest displays, rifling through plastic letter dividers and name placards—was an endangered endeavor.
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- Parent Category: BloggingOnAudio BloggingOnAudio
- Created: 02 February 2022 02 February 2022
New Noise #3: A Little Box
The term format agnostic has been showing up lately in certain hi-fi circles. I’m no linguist, but I am a fan of words and the creative ways we use them. These two words, in combination, caught my attention.
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- Parent Category: BloggingOnAudio BloggingOnAudio
- Created: 26 December 2021 26 December 2021
New Noise #2: An Unexpected DIY Surprise
On the morning I submitted my previous (first) column, I stepped outside to my backyard workshop shed and unfastened the wood clamps from a fun little project I had no intention of keeping.
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- Parent Category: BloggingOnAudio BloggingOnAudio
- Created: 06 December 2021 06 December 2021
New Noise #1: Embracing the Unexpected
I’ve long felt that a kid who doesn’t know what he wants to do will soon find out exactly what he doesn’t want to do. That is, there is no greater motivation for suddenly embracing (any) plan B than first being confronted with a disagreeable plan A.
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