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See these two smiling faces? That's my uncle Omar on the left. He's standing with John Rutan of <a href="http://www.audioconnect.com/">Audio Connection</a> in Verona, New Jersey, a short and happy drive from downtown Jersey City, along the Parkway and up good old Bloomfield Avenue, dotted with trees and liquor stores, pizzerias and movie theaters. A very fine place, indeed.

<I>Room lock</I> occurs when a set of loudspeakers reproduces the deep-bass notes of a pipe organ powerfully enough that the sounds can be felt as pressure waves. On Day 2 of the <A HREF="http://blog.stereophile.com/he2007">2007 Home Entertainment Show</A>, in one of the Sound By Singer rooms, our own <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/thefifthelement/">John Marks</A> played his recording of organist James Busby performing Herbert Howells' <I>Master Tallis's Testament</I> through a pair of Fremont loudspeakers from Escalante Design. The sustained bass note at the end of the passage took my breath away&mdash;the stand-mounted Fremonts sounded as open and dynamic as anything else I heard at HE2007. I wondered if they'd sound as good in my home listening room.

May Pang <A HREF="http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article… the beans</A> about her relationship with John Lennon.