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Reader Stephen M. Rose wants <I>Stereophile</I> readers to confess their audio sins. Do you ever use tone controls in your current system?

During the week of October 14, <A HREF="http://www.thielaudio.com">Thiel Audio Products</A> president Kathy Gornik completed an unprecedented triple play.

"We are now well past the era in which every review of digital playback equipment had to begin with an apology for the medium," writes Thomas J. Norton. As a case in point, TJN takes the <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//digitalsourcereviews/692/">Mark Levinson No.37 CD transport & No.36S D/A converter</A> out for a couple of spins.

Recent news from Universal Music Group should bode well for the SACD format. It's not exactly a flood, but the world's largest music company finally made good on the <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/news/11238/">promise</A&gt; it made at the 2002 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and announced last week its first Super Audio CD (SACD) titles to be released in the United States.

Although the <A HREF="http://www.tweeter.com">Tweeter Home Entertainment Group</A>'s rate of expansion has slowed, it shows no sign of stopping. The Canton, MA electronics retailer will open six new stores during the month of November.

Robert Deutsch says, "There <I>is</I> something special about SETs: a kind of midrange magic, a harmonic rightness that tends to elude other amplifier designs." But how to get more power from a single-ended triode design? In his review of the <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//amplificationreviews/687/">Air Tight ATM-211 monoblock power amplifier</A> RD discovers one answer.

Making good on a <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/news/11382/">promise</A&gt; made several months back, <A HREF="http://www.avantgarde-acoustic.com/">Avantgarde Acoustic</A> is moving into the retail realm. The company's German-made horn loudspeakers are the featured products at <A HREF="http://www.avantgardemusic.biz">Avantgarde Music & Cinema</A>, a new showroom at 27 West 24th Street, Suite 502 in Manhattan. The store is privately owned and operated by <A HREF="mailto:TheHornStore@aol.com">Bob Visintainer</A>, who emphasized that his business is "definitely Avantgarde focused" but also carries other brands of electronics and accessories.