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Corey Greenberg channels his heroes Beavis and Butthead to review the NHT SuperZero loudspeaker and SW2 subwoofer. As CG explains, the NHT may be the first speaker "that really kicks ass—one that offers true high-end, full-range sound, all for under $1000." Huh-huh, huh-huh.

To open his review of the Etymotic Research ER-4S Canal Phone earspeakers, Wes Phillips asks, "What's more important: clean underwear or good music?" Phillips reveals that he's more likely to remember his Etymotic earspeakers than his luggage when he hits the airport.

John Atkinson takes a stand (or two) in The Sound of Surprise (the loudspeaker/stand interface). With careful analysis and dogged determination, JA discovers "that the speaker stand and the interface between the stand and the speaker influence the behavior of the loudspeaker's cabinet walls." And the best solution is the cheapest!

Back where it all began: We have "Undercurrents #1," wherein George Reisch points out, "As I see it, neither relativism nor absolutism is a very good philosophy for high-end audio."

Finally, the latest installment in our "Recording of the Month" series for the online archives: Recording of August 1995, Pärt: Fratres. Richard Lehnert notes that this work is "a bare-bones formal armature over which the musical flesh is so thinly, tautly stretched that it threatens to tear apart at the slightest strain—and never does."