I found a pair of stereo speakers on the street, heavy and woody looking. A quick internet search confirmed their date of manufacture, 1974-77; a short history of the company that made them, EPI; and many opinions of their designer on topics both worldly and spiritual.
“From my understanding of the science of loudspeaker design, I understand that there are more than (Einstein’s) four dimensions. By revelation, I understand that there are twenty-seven such dimensions.”
It was a remarkable trash day, to say the least. Dragged home, cleaned up and plugged in, these speakers may not have transported me to all twenty-seven dimensions, yet – but they are most definitely leaning on that Einsteinian fourth one: Time. Their sound rockets me back to the store where I bought my teenage hi-fi - a carpeted, dimly lit, vaguely louche place where a salesman dressed like Mike Brady touched a panel of buttons and shifted sounds from one pair of sp…
