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Anyone who's ever looked for it knows how rare audio-friendly living space is. Perhaps someday an enterprising developer will build Audiophile Acres---a whole <I>subdivision</I> of audio houses or soundproofed condos that'll meet these needs---then stand by while hordes of long-suffering audiophiles stampede the sales office, frantically waving down-payments in their sweaty hands.

Our long-awaited laser-audio disc player (usually called the CD, for "Compact Disc") finally arrived, along with a real bonanza of software: two discs&mdash;a Polygram classical sampler of material from Decca, Deutsche Grammophon and Philips, and a Japanese CBS recording of Bruckner's 4th Symphony, with Kubelik.

<B>ELVIS COSTELLO: <I>2&#189; Years</I></B><BR> Including: <I>My Aim Is True</I> (RCD 90271. Bazza, eng. TT: 60:22), <I>This Year's Model</I> (RCD 90272. TT: 52:46), <I>Armed Forces</I> (RCD 90273. TT: 63:29), all available separately, and <I>Live at El Mocambo</I><BR> Rykodisc RCD 90271/74 (4 CDs). TT: 3:45:33<BR> <I>All above (except as noted):</I> CD only. Nick Lowe, prod.; Roger Bechirian, eng. & re-mastering. AAD.

What did you on your wedding night? I know what I did. All three times. But Casey McKee? He spent his wedding night at the end of October installing the new Lingo power supply on his Linn LP12. I know. I was there.

"Uhh! What is it?" I was being prodded on the arm. Admittedly it was gentle, almost polite prodding, but prodding it still was, a rude disturbance of the cocoon I had woven around myself in seat 31J of the American Airlines MD-11 winging its way across the North Atlantic. I pushed Pause on the Discman, insensitively not waiting for an opportune cadence in the Brahms Piano Quintet that had been my erstwhile virtual reality.

As of February, 1982, the ownership of this publication passed to other hands. In total despair about its precarious finances, JGH accepted with alacrity an offer by Larry Archibald (an occasional contributor in recent years) to purchase the magazine. This has now come to pass, and it is because of the resulting infusion of money that you are holding this issue in your hot little hands now instead of three months from now (and that is probably being a little optimistic about the way things were).

<I>Nothing quite new is perfect.</I> &mdash;Marcus Tullius Cicero, <I>Brutus</I>