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What's a home-entertainment show without an assortment of state-of-the-art audio demonstrations? <A HREF="http://www.egglestonworks.com">EgglestonWorks</A&gt; has announced that its next generation Andra II speaker will be featured as part of what it calls an "unprecedented" demonstration of multichannel Super Audio CD (SACD) to be conducted during the upcoming <A HREF="http://www.homeentertainment-expo.com">Home Entertainment 2002 Show</A> May 30 through June 2 at the New York Hilton.

American media companies and electronics manufacturers may be adversaries in the conflict over digital copy protection, but their French counterparts have decided to make love, not war.

It was 1988. What to do about digital?

Reader Gerald Neily wants to get very specific about your audiophile priorities. What do you focus on the most when evaluating and/or tweaking an audio system?

There are probably only a handful of recorded works which could successfully survive the transition from the original two-channel release to a 5.1 surround remix. Queen's 1975 release <I>A Night At The Opera</I> is certainly one of them, and, in fact, the recording was originally scheduled to hit the streets <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/news/11174/">last November</A> as a 5.1 DVD-Audio disc from <A HREF="http://www.dtsonline.com">DTS Entertainment</A>.

As normally conceived, loudspeakers use electrodynamic forces to control the movements of their diaphragms, which in turn move air. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. has come up with an interesting twist on this principle, one in which air pressure itself ("aerodynamic-drive technology") is used to control the diaphragm. The result is a transparent panel speaker called the "Sound Window," announced by the Japanese industrial giant March 27.

Following the tragic events of September 11 last year, <A HREF="http://www.audioasylum.com">Audio Asylum</A> and <A HREF="http://www.audiogon.com">Audiogon</A&gt; co-sponsored a <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/news/11141/">charity auction</A> of audio equipment to benefit the NY Firefighters' Fund and other related charities. Manufacturers, dealers, magazine writers and editors, and audiophiles donated equipment, recordings, and memorabilia for sale, and as <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/news/11159/">reported on this website</A>, the auction ultimately raised almost $175,000 for 9/11-related charities.