News

Sony Tries to Connect

Jon Iverson Mar 22, 2004 First Published: Mar 22, 2004

While Apple's iTunes and RealNetworks Rhapsody are battling it out in the music download ring (see related">http://www.stereophile.com/news/032204itunes">related story), and Microsoft is rumored to be eyeing a corner, Sony has now decided to join the fray with a new music service announced last week in Europe.

News

Naxos Covers the High-Rez Bases

Kalman Rubinson Mar 22, 2004 First Published: Mar 22, 2004

Some months back, a poll at the Naxos of America websitehttp://www.naxos.com">website; asked visitors about their preferences among high-resolution and multichannel formats. At that time, Naxos had been releasing DVD-As (and DVDs) in the US, but only released SACDs elsewhere.

News

Music Notes

Barry Willis Mar 15, 2004 First Published: Mar 15, 2004

Starbucks is taking its signature compilation CDs to the next level—the personal one.

News

Tower Emerging from Chapter 11

Barry Willis Mar 15, 2004 First Published: Mar 15, 2004

Tower">http://www.towerrecords.com">Tower Records should be back in fighting form on Monday, March 15 when a Delaware bankruptcy court rules on the company's reorganization plans.

News

Added to the Archives This Week

Stereophile Staff Mar 15, 2004 First Published: Mar 15, 2004

From the March 2004 issue, John Atkinson finally gets to listen to the Sonus">http://www.stereophile.com/loudspeakerreviews/304sonus">Sonus Faber Cremona loudspeaker and explains, "it took rather longer than I had expected to set the Cremonas up in my listening room. But, like everything worth experiencing, the wait was worth it."

News

Hi-Rez PC Audio Announcements

Jon Iverson Mar 15, 2004 First Published: Mar 15, 2004

Audiophiles interested in experimenting with upconverting the digital data on their CDs to higher resolutions will find a recent announcement from the Netherlands of interest. Dutch company Eximiushttp://www.eximius.nl">Eximius; revealed last week a new product tagged "DVD+Audio Creator" for converting CDs to either upsampled PCM or compressed MP2 files.

News

Apple in the Sauce

Barry Willis Mar 08, 2004 First Published: Mar 08, 2004

Apple Computer is riding a wave that shows no sign of breaking.

News

Added to the Archives This Week

Stereophile Staff Mar 08, 2004 First Published: Mar 08, 2004

Bits is bits? In the December 1990 issue, John Atkinson explored in "Jitter">http://www.stereophile.com/reference/1290jitter">"Jitter, Bits, & Sound Quality" why digital audio turns out to be a complicated process. He writes, "As my violin teacher used to say, 'The right note in the wrong place is the wrong note.'" And so it is with digital data, as JA explains in this groundbreaking report.

News

Retailing on the Rise?

Barry Willis Mar 08, 2004 First Published: Mar 08, 2004

Electronics retailers may be bouncing back from a long slump, according to a couple of recent reports.

News

Warner Reorgs and Slashes

Jon Iverson Mar 08, 2004 First Published: Mar 08, 2004

As promisedhttp://www.stereophile.com/news/011904roundup/index.html">promised; earlier in January, Warner">http://www.wmg.com">Warner Music Group has announced a major restructuring that it hopes will put it in better shape to compete in the "challenging business environment of today's music industry." The move comes after the recent closing of WMG's $2.6 billion acquisition by Edgar Bronfman, Jr. and a group of investors.