"The Mini-Flex Speaker," an Excerpt from THE PERFECT SOUND on Soundstage! Global!

The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in Stereo tells the story of three journeys—my own audio quest for the past 15 years, my love of all kinds of music since I was a kid in Hawaiʻi back in the 1950s, and the story of amplification itself from early acoustic instruments

14 February 2022 - 1 min read

The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in Stereo tells the story of three journeys—my own audio quest for the past 15 years, my love of all kinds of music since I was a kid in Hawaiʻi back in the 1950s, and the story of amplification itself from early acoustic instruments and classical amphitheaters to modern electronics and speakers. It’s part memoir, part personal audio chronicle, and part essayistic history of audio itself told through selected highlights.

In Search of the Perfect Sound: Confessions of an Accidental Audiophile

Some fifteen years ago, the CD changer in my stereo micro-system suddenly broke down, and I wrote a friend of mine, Peter Morrison, a former surfer turned English professor in Southern California whom

"Keb' Mo' and the Resonator Guitar," a chapter from THE PERFECT SOUND

While surfing the net recently (I was looking at pictures of old guitars and bluesmen), I came across a 2017 video of contemporary blues artists Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’ playing a song

"The Mini-Flex Speaker," an Excerpt from THE PERFECT SOUND on Soundstage! Global!