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Krell Evolution 202 preamplifier & 600 monoblock power amplifier

Talk about going from the ridiculous to the sublime. One day I'm reviewing the $139 <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/solidpoweramps/1006sonic">Sonic Impact Super T</A> power amplifier, and the next day Krell Industries delivers their $10,000 Evolution 505 SACD/CD player, $15,000 Evolution 202 preamplifier, and their $30,000/pair Evolution 600 monoblocks.

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Audio Research Reference 3 line preamplifier

In any category of product or service, there is a gold standard&mdash;one company that epitomizes the best in its field of endeavor. Consider the Rolex watch, the Ferrari sports car, the Steinway piano, the Dunhill pipe. All of these artisanal manufacturers have spent decades, even centuries, earning their names' cachet with their histories of consistent excellence. While high-end audio boasts no names with a 60-year pedigree, such as Ferrari's&mdash;much less Steinway & Sons' +150 years&mdash;there is one firm whose storied past stretches back to the very emergence of the concept of high-end audio itself: Audio Research Corporation.

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Modern Sounds

<I>"You listen to these modern records, they're atrocious, they have sound all over them. There's no definition of nothing, no vocal, no nothing, just like&mdash;static."</I>&mdash;Bob Dylan, interviewed by Jonathan Lethem. <I>Rolling Stone</I>, September 7, 2006

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Atlantic Icon

I was very sad to learn of the death of Ahmet Ertegun, one of the three visionaries behind Atlantic Records. Having met him several times, it makes perverse sense that he would have met his end due to complications from a fall at a Rolling Stones concert. He was a man of music to the end.

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Is Apocalypto Porn?

I can't remember the last film review I read in <I>Archeology</I>. Traci Ardren, an AP at the University of Miami, who has studied classic Maya society for the 20 years, while living in Yucatan villages, has a different view of Mel Gibson's movie than the one you probably read in your local paper.

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