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PS Audio's first product, back in 1973, was a standalone phono stage; more recently, their PCA-2 preamp had an optional phono board. The <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/solidpoweramps/106ps">GCC-100</A&gt; integrated amplifier that I review this month has no room inside for a phono board, so they've gone back to producing a separate phono stage: the GCPH ($995). Like the other products in PS Audio's current line, this one is based on the Gain Cell, one module on the input side connecting to the cartridge, followed by a passive RIAA curve (with a claimed accuracy of 0.1dB over the 40dB range of the curve), and another Gain Cell on the output side.

Extra-terrestrial radio is poised to celebrate Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 250th birthday. From Wednesday January 25 through Friday, January 27, XM Satellite Radio will broadcast live performances by many of the most celebrated Mozartians of our time direct from the Carolino Augusteum, a 17th-century castle and former home of the Archbishops of Salzburg that overlooks the Salzburg Cathedral and the Mozart Platz. Artist interviews and sound portraits of the Salzburg milieu will spice up the proceedings.

Huck: "<I>Heh heh heh</I>. Snooze, you lose, baby!"

Joey deVilla, <I>aka</I> Accordion Guy in the 21st Century, is disgruntled (trust me, Accordion Guy is at his best when he's not gruntled). His beef? The fundraising dinner held last night for Canadian MP Sam Bulte, <I>aka</I> Hollywood's MP, because of the perhaps coincidental linkage between her advocacy of extremely restrictive copyright legislation and her acceptance of financial support (57% of her campaign war chest) from institutions such as the Canadian Motion Pictures Distributors Association, Canadian Publishers Council, and the Entertainment Software Alliance.

I love Twain and view UC/Berkeley's Mark Twain Project to print <I>everything</I>. ever written by Sam Clemens (even down to the individual drafts) as God's own work. Yet, like many readers (including Ernest Hemingway), I've always had a problem with <I>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</I>'s final chapters&mdash;say, around the time Tom Sawyer highjacks the novel.

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I love Cantaloupe Records. David Lang's <I>The Passing Measures</I> is one of the most beautiful compositions I've heard this millennium and Phil Kline's <I>Zippo Songs</I> was my hit of CES2006. While supplies last, you can order a <I>free</I> Bang On A Can/Cantaloupe Records sampler and find out for yourself how good their recordings are. Adventurous and different&mdash;and did I mention <I>free</I>?