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Dealer Events in New York & New Jersey, Today & Tomorrow

Stereophile Staff Jun 22, 2016 First Published: Jun 22, 2016

Today, Wednesday, June 22, 11am7:30pm: Stereo Exchange (627 Broadway, Manhattan) will host an open house and personal-audio listening event featuring special guests, giveaways, and more, and tomorrow, Thursday, June 23, 58pm: HiFi Sales (1732 Route 70 East, Cherry Hill) will host a personal-audio listening party, featuring products from Amarra, Amps and Sound, AudioQuest, and more.

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Dealer Events in Maryland Thursday and Washington State Friday

Stereophile Staff Jun 15, 2016 First Published: Jun 15, 2016

Thursday, June 16, 69pm: Gramophone will celebrate the Grand Opening of their Gaithersburg showroom (8513 Grovemont Circle, Gaithersburg) with an evening of wonderful music, delicious food, and world-class audio/video systems, while on Friday, June 17, 69pm: Gig Harbor Audio (3019 Judson Street, Suite D, Gig Harbor) and J-Corder (5800 Soundview Drive, D-101, Gig Harbor) will host a "Tactile Psychoacoustics" listening party.

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Out Now: the First Issue of the Summer

Stereophile Staff Jun 11, 2016 First Published: Jun 11, 2016

Our July issue hits newsstands and mailboxes this weekend. Jason Victor Serinus kicks things off by asking whether CES will remain a major show for high-end audio, but occupying pride of place on the cover is Zu Audio's Soul Supreme speaker. A big paper-cone driver (with a whizzer cone) operated full-rangewe all know that can't work, right. But Herb Reichert and John Atkinson found their preconceptions blown away by the sound.

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Dealer Events Saturday in Arizona, Florida

Stereophile Staff Jun 09, 2016 First Published: Jun 09, 2016

Saturday, June 11, 17pm, Esoteric Audio (111 W Monroe Street, Suite 100, Phoenix), is presenting "Musical Bliss for any Budget" with Aerial, Aesthetix, dCS, Musical Surroundings, and Simaudio, while from 11am7pm, Integrity Sound (4035 S. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota) will host a special "Truth in Sound" event with MartinLogan, Parasound, and AudioQuest.

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Honoring Richard Beers at T.H.E. Show

Jason Victor Serinus Jun 08, 2016 First Published: Jun 08, 2016

On the first night of the show, a standing-room-only assemblage of friends, associates, and supporters gathered in a huge, tented outdoor pavilion to bid adieu to Richard Lawrence Beers (July 26, 1949January 26, 2016), co-founder of The Home Entertainment Show.

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Sony, UMG, NARAS's P&E Wing, and Capitol Studios Present DEG Hi-Res Symposium

Michael Fremer Jun 03, 2016 First Published: Jun 03, 2016

At a Hi-Res Symposium presented by The Digital Entertainment Group (DEG) on June 1 in Capitol's legendary Studio A in Hollywood, representatives from record labels, Sony, Capitol Studios, and The Recording Academy's Producers and Engineers wing discussed the future of high-resolution digital audio.

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T.H.E. Show Newport Starts Friday!

Jason Victor Serinus May 31, 2016 First Published: Jun 01, 2016

T.H.E. Show Newport returns to its new venue at Hotel Irvine this FridaySunday, June 35, starting at 10am. By far the largest high-end consumer show on the West Coast of North America, T.H.E. Show promises 149 active exhibit rooms, with 19 of those big and even bigger than big rooms; 68 exhibit tables in the Marketplace and Marketplace foyer, including perhaps 16 headphone exhibitors in separate areas within the Marketplace. You can read the entire show guide here. . .

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George Bischoff RIP

Allen Edelstein May 26, 2016 First Published: May 26, 2016

The audio industry lost another of its veterans on May 23 with the passing of George Bischoff. Over more than four decades, George touched many facets of the industry beginning with Personalized Audio, his retail shop in Dunellen, NJ.

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Spectral Audio Debuts Reference CD Processor at New York's Innovative Audio

Ken Micallef May 22, 2016 First Published: May 22, 2016

Spectral Audio President Richard Fryer (above) brought the new SDR-4000SV Studio Reference CD Processor ($20,000) to Innovative Audio Video Showrooms in Manhattan May 13 and 14, as part of the New York City dealer's "Meet the Innovators" series. Fryer debuted Spectral's limited-edition digital player and playback system in one of Innovative's renovated listening rooms, its dark lights, cool temps and flowing white wine aiding the already sumptuous atmosphere.

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Big Changes at Universal Music Group (Updated)

Jason Victor Serinus May 20, 2016 First Published: May 20, 2016

Whoa! Am I reading this correctly? Has Universal Music Group, parent company of classical/jazz labels Deutsche Grammophon, Decca Records, Decca Classics, Mercury Classics, and distributed label ECM, really "deepened [its] commitment to jazz and classical music [and the] company's unwavering commitment to building upon its rich history in both genres" by announcing, on May 19, that it has lumped those US labels together with jazz label Verve under the new Verve Label Group? Note as well that it has also appointed Danny Bennett, the Grammy and Emmy Award-winning music, film, and TV producer who manages the career of his father, Tony Bennett, as the Verve Label Group's President & CEO.