Yes, a good sense of humor, or sense of the absurd, is helpful.

I'm glad you're digging it. Starker's one of the great ones.

DrWho: Last I checked, a real piano didn't sound like the fancy finish on a speaker, or the warm glow of pretty lightbulbs. Is this your current take on tube amplification, Dr. Who? "pretty lightbulbs"?

Her 1994 recording of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1

A perfect memory could be tested. I read a list of twenty terms to you, and you repeat them back to me from memory. I can compare what you remember to my list, and score the accuracy. But a perfect auditory memory? It's untestable. How could anyone else know whether you remember what a performance sounded like? How can you yourself know if you remember it correctly, or if you just think you do? You're asking us to believe you, based on faith.

Paul Paray/Detroit Symphony

Mallette: I've rewritten this several times. I started by takeing the bait. Dumped that and started a technical discussion. BS and a waste of time. I'll try this. I record location music from the most delicate of instruments in the most demanding acoustic situations. I NEVER forget the sound of a given instrument in a given space. When I hear the playback of an event I have the ability to judge precisely what differs in the playback from what I heard in the event, and most of the time the reason

What kind of audio system is he going to have in the new kitchen, if you know?

dwilawyer: did anyone run into Luther (Wardsweb) at AKFest? He is my buddy from San Antonio and the webmaster of the AK Forum. He did not attend this year.

Arf, Digital amps suck bigtime. I have to seriously question the ears of anyone who would recommend them.