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Bucks Up for XM Radio

Barry Willis Dec 16, 2001 First Published: Dec 16, 2001

XM">http://www.xmradio.com">XM Satellite Radio Holdings is now in a position to operate well into the fourth quarter of 2002, thanks to a $129 million stock offering underwritten by Morgan Stanley Company. XM made the announcement in a press release dated December 10.

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Philips' Audio Fingerprinting

Barry Willis Dec 16, 2001 First Published: Dec 16, 2001

The received wisdom has it that among the billions of humans on earth, no two have identical fingerprints, no matter how closely related they are.

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Added to the Archives This Week

Stereophile Staff Dec 16, 2001 First Published: Dec 16, 2001

As Larry Greenhill reports in his review of the Sony">http://www.stereophile.com//digitalsourcereviews/469/">Sony SCD-C555ES SACD changer, "I didn't know what to expect from multichannel SACD. Would a multichannel music-only disc give me high-energy dramatics? Would there be any room for meditative, closed-eyed, total progressive muscular relaxation?" As Greenhill says, "The best was yet to come."

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Copyright or Copywrong?

Jon Iverson Dec 16, 2001 First Published: Dec 16, 2001

It seems that all of the forces in the music industry have lately been conspiring against the music lover and audiophile. The record labels and their hired gun, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), have so far blocked digital outputs on high-resolution audio players, insisted that watermarks be inserted into both high- and low-resolution audio data, and have even started to restricthttp://www.stereophile.com/news/11178/">restrict; consumer's fair use of compact discs and digital downloads.

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Classical Stations Win Top Rankings

Stereophile Staff Dec 16, 2001 First Published: Dec 16, 2001

Over-the-air classical music broadcasting is becoming increasingly rare, but classical has got a huge listenership on the Internet, according to a survey by rating service Arbitron">http://www.arbitron.com">Arbitron, Inc., which early this month announced that three classical music stations were among the five most listened to on the Internet.

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Stereophile Staff Dec 09, 2001 First Published: Dec 09, 2001

For the tenth consecutive year, Stereophile writers and editors ferret out those components that have proved capable of giving musical pleasure beyond the formal review period and have wrapped them all up as The">http://www.stereophile.com//features/464/">The 2001 Products of the Year. The envelope please.

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Audiophile Delights

Stereophile Staff Dec 09, 2001 First Published: Dec 09, 2001

Audiophiles tend to be a fussy lot. But there are always a few sure-fire items that will put a smile on their faces without breaking the bank. We've got dozens of great ideas, guaranteed to suit every taste, available online (links are below) from our secure Web pages.

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Single-Source Surround Sound?

Barry Willis Dec 09, 2001 First Published: Dec 09, 2001

Every Consumer">http://www.cesweb.org">Consumer Electronics Show features unusual prototypes from engineers throughout the world. Some are laboratory curiosities that never develop into viable products, but others have great potential.

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Perreaux Redux

Jon Iverson Dec 09, 2001 First Published: Dec 09, 2001

For any audio company to be successful, it needs to cover what my business school teachers used to call the "Four Ps": Product, Price, Promotion, and Place. In other words, success will follow if a company can slice up its resources to properly promote the right product at the right price and make it available in the right places.

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Less Bits, More Filling?

Jon Iverson Dec 02, 2001 First Published: Dec 02, 2001

Dolby">http://www.dolby.com">Dolby Laboratories was demonstrating its new Advanced">http://www.aac-audio.com">Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) consumer encoder, which the company says complements its professional AAC encoder, at this year's New York AES Convention. Dolby says it will license the encoder to enable "high-quality AAC encoding" for CD-rippers, hard disk–based jukebox products, Internet-based music distribution systems, portable players, and other digital audio products aimed at the consumer market.