'3 Questions' Series for Medium
Medium is a reader-supported blogging platform that has given me a long-needed chance to branch out. The "3 Questions" series focuses on authors, musicians, and other people I admire.
- 3 Questions for MCC's Rev. Elder Troy Perry
- 3 Questions for Detective Novelist Julia Spencer-Fleming
- 3 Questions for British Songwriter Leon Rosselson
- 4 Questions for Drummer and Author Bill Bruford
- 3 Questions for Vinyl Detective Novelist Andrew Cartmel
- 3 Questions for Detective Novelist Deborah Crombie
- 3 Questions for Dutch Guitarist Jan Akkerman
Sound & Vision (formerly Home Theater)
Sound & Vision (formerly Home Theater) is the leading magazine in its subject area. As audio editor, I wrote reviews of loudspeakers, surround receivers, and other hardware as well as news stories and blogs for both the print and online versions.
- Closer to Music
- Going Walkabout with a Walkman
- Diablog: John Lennon at 65
- How We Became a Triple Alexa Household
- WNEW-FM and the Golden Age of Streaming
- Audio Editor Gets New Video Display, Part I
- Audio Editor Gets New Video Display, Part II
- Page by Page with The Fall's Mark E. Smith
- CD Rot, Rack, & Ruin
- How I Found a Timeless Moment on the Sidewalk
- New Tab on the Block
- Sgt. Pepper Meets Dolby Atmos
- Greg Lake: Like the Low End of a Steinway
- Vinyl Treasures: 9 Objects of Art You Can't Stream
- How Intrusive Is Your AV Gear?
- The Lost Art of Concertgoing
- Half-Atmos: Is the 7-Channel AVR Obsolete?
- Is 5.1 Obsolete?
- Yes, the High-Res Difference Is Audible
- Meet the New Dolby Surround
- A Soundbar Bill of Rights
- Are Tower Speakers Obsolete?
- Surround Tribes: Where Do You Fit In?
- In Defense of the AVR
- What CES Is Really Like
- CES 2017: The Ultimate Audio Wrapup
- Micro Seiki: The Jewel in the Rack
- Rating Is Futile
- Diablog: Glenn Gould at 75
- Diablog: Hubbert's Peak and Hundred-Dollar Doom
- Diablog: The Glass and Breath Machine
- Diablog: The Chesterfield
DigitalTrends.com
Founded in 2000, DigitalTrends.com (formerly DesignTechnica.com) has quickly become a major electronics-savvy voice on the web and receives more than two million unique visitors each month. For three happy years I wrote opinionated pieces for the Talk Back section. They resembled the columns I used to write for Audio Video Interiors, etown.com, and The Village Voice. Note that some are misattributed to other writers following a site redesign but I'm still identified in the bio-tag at the end.
- Falling in Love Again with High-End Audio
- Home Theater 2008: High-Def Predictions
- Little Things You Hate About Home Audio/Video
- Why Next-Gen Formats Have an Uphill Battle
- Roving CEDIA, the Sane Person's CES
- Full HD: Hip or Hype?
- The Greening of Entertainment Tech
- Cable Box Liberation Looms
- Pray for Vonage
- 10 Ways to Come Home to Music
- 12 Ways to Boycott the RIAA
- The Day the Music Died
- Tech Predictions for 2007
- In Praise of Sat/Sub Sets
- Don't Buy That Sub!
- Dolby and DTS Are Fruitful and Multiply
- Telcos Try Viral Lobbying
- Audiophilus Editorus Rex
- What's With All This Dolby Stuff?
- Why High-End Audio Matters
- Who's In Control?
- Don't Get Stampeded by the 7.1 Parade
- VOIP and the Leap of Faith
- Cable Unbundled
- When Will Analog TVs Go Dark?
- Tweak Your Way to Heaven
- In Home Theater, Installers Trump Lobbyists
- Widescreen TVs Get the Bends
- Shaded Dog Days
- Nailing Standards to the Wall
- The Commissioner and the Call Girl
- Interface Time
- The Other DTV
- The Truth About Cables, Part II (sort of)
- Why 1080p Is a Magic Number (and Letter)
- DVD Format Wars
- Thinking Inside of the Box
- Let's Burn the Flag (just kidding)
- Lost in the Middle
- Flat Enough But Not Black Enough
- The DTV Heist
- Cable Industry and HDTV: Are they getting smarter?
- Are DVD-Audio and SACD DOA?
- How to Choose the Right HDTV
etown.com
Now deceased, this website was once the most widely read publication in consumer electronics, with more than a million uniquely identifiable visitors per month. Much of its former content is still floating around the net. I created several bodies of work for etown, including much of the "how to" section, but I'm proudest of the columns below.
- Steal that Tune
- Bring Back Divx
- Hearing Loss
- Archival Blues
- Surround *.*
- Trouble Down Under
- Review: JVC micro-system (original site, 1997)
Audio Video Interiors
My home theater column appeared in AVI -- long described as "Architectural Digest with electronics" -- for 15 years, starting in the first issue.
Other publications
My writing has appeared in more than 30 other magazines, newspapers, and online publications including Amtrak Express, Bloomberg Personal Finance, Business Week, Cable Choice (interview with Ted Turner), Cable Time, Cargo, Channels, The Courier-News, Crutchfield Advisor, Dealerscope, Details, Dirty Linen, Diversion, E-Gear, Elle Decor, Entertainment Weekly (video reviews), Guitar World (interview with Robert Fripp), Harper's Bazaar, Home Entertainment, Home Viewer (former contributing editor), Laser Video File, Long Island Monthly, The Men's Journal, Music & Sound Output, Musician, Newsday (still more video reviews), Penthouse, Popular Science, Premiere (former columnist), The Robb Report, Rolling Stone (chief audio critic for a decade), Satellite Orbit, Spin, Stereophile Guide to Home Theater (appreciations of Alfred Hitchcock and Billy Wilder), Stereo Review (interview with Robyn Hitchcock), Sync, Trouser Press, The Trouser Press Collectors' Magazine (former editor, interview with Richard Thompson), The Ultimate AV Guide, V Magazine, Verge, Video Business, Video Digest, Video Extra, Video Magazine (former senior & contributing editor), View, The Village Voice (former columnist), Vis a Vis (United Airlines), The Washington Post (The Trouble with Multimedia), World Screen News, and Wrap, and those are just the ones I remember. My work has appeared in several books -- including The Best of Audio Video Interiors, the Electronic Industries Association's Product Terminology Dictionary, The Trouser Press New Wave Record Guide, Rolling Stone's The Year in Rock, The Video Magazine Guide to What's on Tape, and The Virgin Rock Yearbook. I've written sleeve notes for several Criterion Collection videodisc releases of Alfred Hitchcock titles including Sabotage, Secret Agent, and Young and Innocent.
