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I just solved your unsolvable math problem.

World's longest concert sounds second chord after one-and-a-half years. It's A, C, and F#&mdash;gonna take a while to resolve <I>that</I> one.

What a great idea. Can I add <I>absitively</I>?

I'm sitting in the hotel lobby, at a small brown table, with Wes Phillips. Our laptops are caught in a long embrace, staring at one another, making a sort of _/ \_

The fabled Threshold Stasis amplifier is back. The S/350 reissue, built in China by Threshold International Ltd., is said to have the same circuit as the original, but with updated components. The original cost $3900 in 1992, so for those who long to own this famous amplifier, the S/350 reissue at $2000 is a bargain!

A wide variety of audio products, from portable to extreme, are announced every year at the Consumer Electronics Show. Anything from the recent CES pique your interest?

We <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/news/122605dcs/">reported</A&gt; a couple of weeks back about the management buyout at English digital specialist dCS. CES saw the first public showing of the new products we wrote about, including the Verdi Encore SACD transport, which upsamples CDs to a DSD stream to feed a dCS DAC, such as the Elgar Plus seen here beneath the transport with both clocked by the dCS Verona that I <A HREF="http://stereophile.com/digitalprocessors/305dcs/">reviewed a year ago</A>. The rest of the dem system was a pair of Verity Parsifal speakers driven by a VTL S-400 amplifier and VTL's new TL-6.5 line preamp: the sound on a cut from the new Jackson Browne CD that Robert Baird writes about in the January 2006 <I>Stereophile</I> was effortlessly smooth, analog-like in the ease of musical communication. And on the top of the Encore is the award we presented to dCS at CES for the original LaScala transport being one of our two <A HREF="http://stereophile.com/features/1205poty/index3.html">Joint Digital Products of 2005</A>.