[David E. Bath]

Interesting article on how Men build there own sanctuaries with
stereos and AV systems.

"But for more than half a century, men have also had stereos. Fifty
years ago in this magazine, Meyer Berger described the emerging clique
of high-fidelity boys. Berger?s description of that crowd applies
equally well to the 2007 technophiles currently consolidating digital
fiefs by installing Sony Bravias - on which "watching grass grow is
fundamentally exciting," as Sony's chairman, Howard Stringer, recently
said.

Hi-fi "takes in the thin purse and the fat," Berger wrote in 1953,
"the humble listener who likes his music best at parlor pitch and the
hot-eyed and intemperate fanatic whose chief pursuit is not music but
extremes in sound - the lowest booming bass; the highest biting note,
tremblingly caught before it takes off for infinity.?""

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/magazine/09wwln-medium-t.html
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David Bath - RAHE Co-moderator