Salome and The Absolute Sound

Editor (The Absolute Sound):

“Veils are lifted…” wrote Paul Seydor, describing the $28,000 Boulder 2008 Isolated Phono Preamplifier on page 50 of Volume 151. It is indeed a rare issue in which at least one reviewer did not report that still another veil has been removed. How many veils are there? And what happens when all are removed? Even Salome only had seven. And we know what happened to her, as reported by the reviewer, Oscar Wilde.

This may throw further light on the topic: The following verse was inscribed on Aubrey Beardsley's proof of the unexpurgated version of the Salome illustration “Enter Herodias” (see picture below)

Because one figure was undressed
This little drawing was suppressed.
It was unkind—
But never mind—
Perhaps it was all for the best.