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Escalation in P2P War

Barry Willis Oct 11, 2004 First Published: Oct 11, 2004

The entertainment industry is going the last mile in its war against file sharing. On Friday, October 8, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAAhttp://www.mpaa.org">MPAA;), the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAAhttp://www.riaa.com">RIAA;), and the National Music Publishers Association (NMPAhttp://www.nmpa.org">NMPA;) appealed to the US Supreme Court to overturn a lower court's ruling earlier this year that peer-to-peer (P2P) file-trading networks can't be held liable for copyright infringement.

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Hertsens On Portables

Jon Iverson Oct 11, 2004 First Published: Oct 11, 2004

Tyll Hertsens is on a mission. He strives to transform the ugly duckling bleat of portable audio into music that sings to an audiophile's heart.

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Hope for Wireless?

Barry Willis Oct 11, 2004 First Published: Oct 11, 2004

Anyone who has experimented with wireless local area networks for audio—feeding rear/side speakers in a multichannel system, for example—can attest that the technology is far from ready for prime time. Prone to noise, interference, and dropouts, wireless audio systems require a tremendous amount of refinement before they'll meet audiophile standards.

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Industry Roundup

Barry Willis Oct 04, 2004 First Published: Oct 04, 2004

Satellite radio goes high-end: Beginning early next year, Krell">http://www.krellonline.com/">Krell Industries will enter the booming market for satellite radio receivers with an XM Radio tuner. The $4000 unit will reportedly also receive traditional AM and FM broadcasts; an optional module will let it stream Internet audio via 802.11g wireless connection to a broadband modem, according to the September 27 edition of This Week in Consumer Electronics (TWICEhttp://www.twice.com">TWICE;). The tuner will join Krell's line of custom installation products. In a similar but less expensive vein will be new Sirius tuners from Russoundhttp://www.russound.com/">Russound;. At $699 and $999, the two new models will also include AM/FM tuners.

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Monster Park

Barry Willis Oct 04, 2004 First Published: Oct 04, 2004

There's a certain commercial symbiosis between audio companies and public performance spaces. Tokyo has its Yamaha">http://www.yamaha-hall.co.jp/">Yamaha Hall; New York has its Avery Fisher Hall (1http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/abram/abram.html">1;, 2http://www.lincolncenter.org/visitor/halldescriptions_afh.asp?ws=">2;), named for the hi-fi pioneer whose products were among the best available in the early 1960s.

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Added to the Archives This Week

Stereophile Staff Oct 04, 2004 First Published: Oct 04, 2004

Jack English noted in March 1994, "I lobbied ProAc designer Stuart Tyler tirelessly to take a crack at a truly full-range speaker which would preserve the strengths of the Response lineup. My wish came true in mid-1993, with the release of the monstrous ProAc">http://www.stereophile.com/loudspeakerreviews/394proac">ProAc Response 4 loudspeaker."

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Hi-Rez DTS Added to Blu-ray & HD DVD

Jon Iverson Oct 04, 2004 First Published: Oct 04, 2004

Last week we reported Dolby's announcementhttp://www.stereophile.com/news/092704mlp/">announcement; that varying versions of their audio technologies have been selected as "mandatory formats" for HD">http://www.dvdforum.org">HD DVD and Blu-rayhttp://www.blu-raydisc.com">Blu-ray;. Significant for audiophiles is that MLP and high-resolution PCM audio will be available both as two-channel and surround formats on HD DVD.

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Home Theater Lifts Speaker Mfgs.

Stereophile Staff Sep 27, 2004 First Published: Sep 27, 2004

Old-school two-channel hi-fi may be in the doldrums—a phenomenon of concern only to those manufacturers still solely mining that niche. Those who have caught the home-theater wave are working overtime developing and producing great-sounding new equipment for use with surround-sound systems, flat-panel televisions, and custom installation, according to reports from the CEDIA">http://www.cedia.org">CEDIA Expo held earlier this month in Indianapolis.

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MLP Lossless For HD DVD

Jon Iverson Sep 27, 2004 First Published: Sep 27, 2004

Audiophiles have had little reason to follow the high-definition video DVD format conflict. Until now.

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Bravo and Bravado Music Servers

Stereophile Staff Sep 27, 2004 First Published: Sep 27, 2004

Media servers are one of the hottest trends in home entertainment, as mentioned by Jon Iverson last">http://www.stereophile.com/news/092004media/">last week.