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Stereophile Room at the Venetian
CES 2011
Jon Iverson  |  Jan 06, 2011  |  3 comments
The show will open in a few minutes and 5-year CES veteran Rosemarie Torcivia is ready to hand out free magazines and answer questions in room 29216.
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Stereophile Staff Arrives
HE 2006
Jon Iverson  |  May 31, 2006  |  4 comments
Since we're spread around the country, the only time we meet in person is usually at a show. Hanging out by the Sheraton's pool are Jason, John and Jon.
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Stereophile.com Turns 10
News
Jon Iverson  |  Dec 02, 2007  |  0 comments
This week marks Stereophile's 10th year online.
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Streaming Audio Goes Legit
News
Jon Iverson  |  Oct 14, 2001  |  0 comments
Will the official online music gates finally stream open and flood us with non-pirated tunes? Perhaps. One important step in the process has finally been taken. The National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA), the Harry Fox Agency (HFA), and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced last week that they have come to a "breakthrough" agreement on the licensing of musical works for new subscription services on the Internet.
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Stuck in the Seventies
News
Jon Iverson  |  May 05, 2002  |  0 comments
Last week's online poll indicates that many Stereophile readers have an ongoing affinity for the retro design style of older audio gear. Several respondents say they find the warm glow of tubes and backlit displays seductively attractive in a darkened room, while others pine for the days of analog dials and softly lit meters with gently bouncing needles.
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Subscriptions or Charge by the Track?
News
Jon Iverson  |  Aug 20, 2000  |  0 comments
In an effort to move their businesses into cyberspace, record labels and audio content distributors are still experimenting with their online formulas. Key to the new economic models for selling music over the Net is this question: Would you rather pay a monthly subscription fee to download music, or pay for music track by track? According to market researcher Gartner Group, sites that plan to sell music via the subscription model should seriously reconsider.
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SunnComm Buys DarkNoise
News
Jon Iverson  |  Feb 09, 2004  |  0 comments
SunnComm and others have been trying for years to find ways to prevent consumers from copying music discs. While their success in preventing digital copies has been mixed, lurking in the background was a problem many felt could never be solved.
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SunnComm Upgrades MediaMax
News
Jon Iverson  |  Oct 17, 2005  |  0 comments
Efforts to restrict the ways consumers use music they have purchased continue unabated. SunnComm (along with its sales and marketing arm MediaMax) has announced that its "newest patent-pending passive technology makes it even more difficult to bypass or 'hack' the copy protection structure contained on the MediaMax CDs."
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SunnComm's Ups and Downs
News
Jon Iverson  |  Oct 12, 2003  |  0 comments
The last few weeks have been a roller-coaster ride for CD copy-restriction developer SunnComm. The company was riding high in early September when it was announced that BMG and Arista had chosen its MediaMax CD-3 Technology to restrict how discs are used.
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Super Audio Forum
News
Jon Iverson  |  Jul 20, 2003  |  0 comments
More than 70 producers, engineers, and representatives from consumer and professional equipment manufacturers, record companies, and recording studios recently came together in Europe to discuss new ways to promote and establish Super Audio CD. After a two-day conference in London, the attendees say they have agreed to establish the Super Audio Forum to foster a "supportive environment for the exchange of knowledge and marketing information, as well as providing a platform for industry-wide collaboration."
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