If a product sounds good to your ears, but measures poorly, is this a problem?
It's not unusual to see a product get a glowing review in <I>Stereophile</I>, but then measure poorly on the test bench. Does this bother you?
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CEA on RIAA vs Verizon
The <A HREF="http://www.ce.org">Consumer Electronics Association</A> (CEA) has responded to an ongoing copyright infringement <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/news/11562/">suit</A> being pursued in a US District Court by the music industry against Verizon Communications, Inc.
Surround Sound Radio
The Swedes have found a new way to kill time on those long, cold Scandinavian winter nights. On February 7, <A HREF="http://www.sr.se">Swedish Radio</A> (SR) announced that it had begun multichannel test transmissions from the Sirius 2 satellite, utilizing <A HREF="http://www.dtsonline.com">DTS</A>'s Coherent Acoustics compression/ decompression algorithm. The tests are intended to run until the end of April 2003.
Cutbacks at Circuit City
The continuing recession is hitting <A HREF="http://www.circuitcity.com">Circuit City</A> hard.
Incubus Sues Sony Music
Incubus is following the Dixie Chicks' lead.
Convert, Mix, Burn
One area where DVD-Audio so far has an advantage over SACD is on the computer. To date there are no SACD-compatible personal computers on the consumer market, allowing the playback of a single-layer stereo or multichannel DSD format disc. One can, however, play a DVD-Audio disc on a PC using, for example, a <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/news/11454/">Sound Blaster Audigy 2 sound card</A>.
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Kalman Rubinson fires up the <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//amplificationreviews/769/">Sonic Frontiers Line 2 line preamplifier</A>, commenting, "I began this review grudgingly because I'd made a decision a while back to no longer pursue vacuum-tube electronics." But it's where KR ends up after months of listening that counts.
No Smiths: Matters of Taste
"What? <I>What???</I> No Smiths?" asks reader Steven J. Wilder in this issue's "Letters" (p.9), regarding my interjection in the "<A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//features/710/index4.html">Honorable Mentions</A>" sidebar of last November's "40 Essential Albums." Hey, I think The Smiths suck—okay, Mr. Wilder? Morrissey's self-absorbed adolescent whining had no place on a list that included music from such grownups as Morrison, Mitchell, and Mingus. I'm not alone in this sentiment. Jon Iverson, www.stereophile.com's webmaster, almost stapled together the pages of <I>Mojo</I> magazine's April 2001 retrospective of Morrissey's and Marr's music so he could skip over it without running the risk of the veins on his forehead exploding.
Have you upgraded or somehow modified the power cords that connects your equipment to the AC outlet?
The current Soapbox features a rant about power cords. Have you upgraded or somehow modified the power cords that connects your equipment to the AC outlet?
"Earworms" Dissected
In <I>Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan</I>, the evil overlord's favorite torture was to introduce carnivorous worms into the ear canals of his prisoners. No one who saw the film can forget the agony of the victims, who gradually went insane as the worms ate through their brains.