Quote, unquote: Is the iPad stereo redux?

"I fear at the moment we're in the psychedelic stage of iPad magazine development, where the digital equivalents of stereo panning, extreme reverb, phasing and backwards tapes are being used to distract attention from the fact that in the end it's all about the tunes."-- Blogger David Hepworth, comparing the mania to get on the iPad with the earlier mania in the '60s to put anything, and we mean