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"We are now well past the era in which every review of digital playback equipment had to begin with an apology for the medium," writes Thomas J. Norton. As a case in point, TJN takes the Mark Levinson No.37 CD transport & No.36S D/A converter out for a couple of spins.

John Atkinson and various other Stereophile scribes weigh in on the Spica Angelus loudspeaker. "Why do I seem to prefer the bass featured by sealed-box loudspeakers?" asks JA as he gets to the (you should pardon the expression) bottom of the Angelus' sound.

JA goes on to interview the Angelus' talented designer. John Bau: Interstellar Overdrive finds the two Johns pondering such topics as bent measuring tools and Bessel networks.

In a 1991 "As We See It," John Atkinson remembers The Day the Music Died. Drawing on many opinions and sources, JA excogitates, "Why was the music of the 1960s and early '70s so much better than what we are being offered now?"

Finally, the latest installment in our "Recording of the Month" series for the online archives, Recording of January 1997: Don Byron's Bug Music. Robert Baird explains the choice: "Every once in a while a disc comes along that is, for lack of more precise terms, full of joy—one hell of a lot of fun."