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As Larry Greenhill reports in his review of the 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."

After September's tragedy, John Atkinson winds his way back from depression with The Restorative Power of Music. As JA finds during an audiophile road trip in October, "I had lost sight of that restorative power in the dreadful days following September 11. I shall not lose sight of it again."

Stereophile music editor Robert Baird also reflects on the events of September and finds 2001 A Year to Remember not only because of its tragedies, but for some of its music as well.

Jonathan Scull offers up another set of helpful and cost-effective tweaks for Fine Tunes #42. In this edition, J-10 covers CD-R polarity, White Tack, heatsink zing, and car wax.

Finally, the latest installment in our "Recording of the Month" series for the online archives: Recordings of December 1999: The Who: Who's Next and The Beatles: Yellow Submarine Songtrack. John Swenson celebrates a pair of great reissues from two of the most influential rock groups of the 1960s.