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In his review of the Soliloquy 5.3 loudspeaker, Kalman Rubinson says that when he heard a pair, his first thoughts were, "Gotta get my hands on these!" After careful listening, did the speaker live up to Rubinson's first impressions? KR tells the whole story.

AC overkill or not? That's the question Robert Deutsch finally answers after investigating the PS Audio Ultimate Outlet AC conditioner. Deutsch wonders, "Would plugging audio equipment into the UO . . . result in a significant improvement over the sound I got with the equipment plugged directly into the wall sockets?"

From 1996, we have John Atkinson's analysis of the ultimate remote digital recording tool, theNagra-D open-reel digital recorder. JA explains why this recorder, still considered a reference machine in the music and film industries, stores the bits better than most, especially for his own projects.

Going back one year more, John Atkinson listens intently to the Totem Acoustic Mani-2 loudspeaker, and makes a case for the high-performance minimonitor. As JA posits, "In fact, the floorstanding vs stand-mounted debate is only really of concern to designers. What matters to audiophiles is performance."

Finally, the next installment in our "Recording of the Month" series for the online archives: Recording of January 2000: Patricia Barber's Companion. Chip Stern explains why Barber is the "ultimate anti-diva, the failed romantic's last hope amid the antediluvian cant of the new classicism."