New Other Stereo Stuff: Pass XP-20 and Schiit Yggdrasil

This post is really just a continuation of the last one. In that one, I raved about our new speakers, the Dynaudio Contour 60s and explained that it had been quite a while since I really made many changes to our stereo system.

New Speakers: Dynaudio Contour 60s

As anyone who knows me knows, I'm very into music. And, since most of the time I listen to music at home (not at a concert), I'm also very into stereo equipment. That actually goes back to when I was about fifteen and used my babysitting money to buy what then seemed, to me, like audio nirvana: A Technics receiver, and then later a Technics turntable and a pair of Altec Lansing Model 10 speakers.

Pornography and Accommodation: Published

Online anyway, here.

If you can't access that, then you can find the pre-publication version here.

Note on "RVG" Pressings of Blue Note Records

As Robert May mentions here, many later issues of Blue Notes, even from the 1970s, have "RVG" or "Van Gelder" stamped into the run-off vinyl. These are more collectible, and they typically sound a lot better than the ones that do not have these markings. My suspicion is that these records are pressed using stampers that derive from the original mastering session, when the record was first released.

A Blue Note Labelography, by Robert May

Reprinted from Primyl Vinyl Exchange Newsletter, vol. 2, no. 6, Nov - Dec, 1997

Reposted here, with permission, since it is no longer at its original location (see here)

Relatedly, see this Blue Note discography this guide to Blue Note labels (and also this one), and this one, and this history of the company.

Trump Is A Racist President

Couldn't have said it better.

PS Does anyone understand how George Conway and What's Her Name are a functional couple? Is one of them just playing us?

New Paper: The Birth of Semantics (with Robert May)

Abstract

We attempt here to trace the evolution of Frege's thought about truth. What most frames the way we approach the problem is a recognition that hardly any of Frege's most familiar claims about truth appear in his earliest work. We argue that Frege's mature views about truth emerge from a fundamental re-thinking of the nature of logic instigated, in large part, with a sustained engagement with the work of George Boole and his followers, after the publication of Begriffsschrift and the appearance of critical reviews by members of the Boolean school.

Download it here.