Want your kids to grow up smarter? Have them study music. Want to hold off the mental ravages of old age? Listen to music. Want to get high (legally), feel ecstatic, make your pain disappear? Music is the cure for what ails you.
Sam Tellig and Kalman Rubinson each take a run at the unique <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//amplificationreviews/729/">PS Audio HCA-2 power amplifier</A> to see what it's made of. Will Tellig and Rubinson agree on the HCA-2's worth? Furthermore, what do the odd results of John Atkinson's measurements mean?
The Consumer Electronic Association's (CEA) Gary Shapiro is known for maintaining an ever-optimistic stance on the progress of home entertainment, and a recent keynote at the Semiconductor Market Outlook Conference earlier this month provided an opportunity for him to reveal his top predictions for the future.
"Suicide junctions," I calls 'em. The ones with which I'm most familiar are on I-278, just north of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge in Brooklyn, New York, and along North Mopac in Austin, Texas, but they must exist all over the US. Traffic about to enter the freeway must first cross the line of faster-traveling offcoming cars, the intersection's on- and off-ramps crossing in a shallow <B>X</B>.
<B>COLDPLAY: <I>A Rush of Blood to the Head</I></B><BR> Capitol 5 40504 2 (CD). 2002. Coldplay, Ken Nelson, prods.; Mark Phythian, Ken Phythian, engs.; Rik Simpson, Jon Withnal, Ben Thackeray, Jon Bailey, Andrea Wright, asst. engs. AAD? TT: 54:14<BR> Performance <B>****½</B><BR> Sonics <B>****</B>
The December issue sees <I>Stereophile</I> publish its 2002 "Products of theYear" (<A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/showarchives.cgi?724">added to the website</A> this week). The reviewers and editor have made their choices, so what are yours?
As tighter restrictions on the use of both audio and video digital content <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/news/11393/">loom in the legislature</A>, the <A HREF="http://www.hrrc.org">Home Recording Rights Coalition</A> (HRRC) and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) have teamed up to counter the ever-increasing demands from copyright holders. The HRRC, founded in 1981, is a leading advocacy group for consumers' rights to use home electronics products for private, non-commercial purposes.
Singer Sam Moore has won a protracted lawsuit brought against retirement fund trustees of the <A HREF=http:"//www.aftra.com">American Federation of Television and Radio Artists</A> (AFTRA). The settlement of the nine-year-old case was announced in an Atlanta federal court on Wednesday, December 5.
<A HREF="http://www.gateway.com">Gateway Computer</A> appears intent on expanding into the home entertainment arena.