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The Adcom GFA-555 power amplifier has long been regarded as a classic design and still commands decent prices on the used market. Anthony H. Cordesman and various other Stereophile writers check in with their opinions.

The surprisingly affordable Linn Tukan loudspeaker was reviewed by Robert Harley back in 1997. Harley explains what $799 can buy, pointing out, "Choosing a small speaker for a small room has musical as well as acoustical advantages."

In his feature article, Dead Man Walking: Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally, Wes Phillips gets the story behind a major new opera whose "libretto is written in contemporary American English that's as plain as stone and clean as bone."

John Atkinson's "As We See It" from our current issue, Selling the Benefits, explores the reasons why the new high-resolution audio formats are a bit of a tough sell: The record labels get the benefits and we get the features.

Finally, the most recent installment in our "Recording of the Month" series for the online archives, March 1997, The Great Miles Davis Prestige Recordings. Robert Baird and Wes Phillips explain why the music of Miles Davis "is more a religion than a career."