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No Smiths: Matters of Taste
John Atkinson  |  Feb 09, 2003  |  0 comments
"What? What??? No Smiths?" asks reader Steven J. Wilder in this issue's "Letters" (p.9), regarding my interjection in the "Honorable Mentions" sidebar of last November's "40 Essential Albums." Hey, I think The Smiths suck—okay, Mr. Wilder? Morrissey's self-absorbed adolescent whining had no place on a list that included music from such grownups as Morrison, Mitchell, and Mingus. I'm not alone in this sentiment. Jon Iverson, www.stereophile.com's webmaster, almost stapled together the pages of Mojo magazine's April 2001 retrospective of Morrissey's and Marr's music so he could skip over it without running the risk of the veins on his forehead exploding.
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Have you upgraded or somehow modified the power cords that connects your equipment to the AC outlet?
Stereophile  |  Feb 02, 2003  |  150 comments

The current Soapbox features a rant about power cords. Have you upgraded or somehow modified the power cords that connects your equipment to the AC outlet?

Have you upgraded or somehow modified the power cords that connects your equipment to the AC outlet?
Yes, here's what I did
43% (117 votes)
Sort of
9% (26 votes)
No modifications
48% (131 votes)
Total votes: 274
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"Earworms" Dissected
Barry Willis  |  Feb 02, 2003  |  1 comments
In Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, the evil overlord's favorite torture was to introduce carnivorous worms into the ear canals of his prisoners. No one who saw the film can forget the agony of the victims, who gradually went insane as the worms ate through their brains.
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Added to the Archives This Week
Stereophile Staff  |  Feb 02, 2003  |  0 comments
"How much power do you really need? How much power can you actually use? What's necessary, and what's icing on the cake? And does anyone really need 1000Wpc?" Jonathan Scull takes the Boulder 2050 monoblock amplifier into the listening chamber to confront these and other pressing audio dilemmas.
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Athena Hits the Big Time
Jon Iverson  |  Feb 02, 2003  |  0 comments
Having a great product at a fair price is mandatory practice in the ever-competitive audio business. But getting the word out and placing those products in front of the customer is just as critical—some might argue, even more important. If this is true, then Canadian speaker company Athena has just made the score of a lifetime.
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Taking On the RIAA
Jon Iverson  |  Feb 02, 2003  |  0 comments
Heads up RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America): those music dollars skittering away in all directions probably have very little to do with online file trading. That was the message last week as members of two important trade organizations challenged the conventional RIAA view that blames peer-to-peer networks for the record industry's third dismal year in a row.
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Clear Channel Radio Under Fire
Barry Willis  |  Feb 02, 2003  |  0 comments
Clear Channel Communications, the radio industry's 900-lb gorilla, may be getting too big for its britches.
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Echo: Music Retailers Go Online
Barry Willis  |  Feb 02, 2003  |  0 comments
Echo.
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Which CD/SACD/DVD-Audio disc has your favorite cover artwork?
Mike Healey  |  Jan 26, 2003  |  65 comments

When new formats started to appear to replace LPs, the first thing to be cut, at least in size, was the cover art. 8-tracks and cassettes viciously cropped the cover art and printed the liner notes with microscopic text.

Which CD/SACD/DVD-Audio disc has your favorite cover artwork?
Here's my favorite
64% (49 votes)
Don't like any of them
36% (28 votes)
Total votes: 77
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Safer Music?
Jon Iverson  |  Jan 26, 2003  |  0 comments
Those who spurn audio discs with built-in restriction technologies should take note: SunnComm Technologies announced last week that its MediaMax CD-3 technology has been utilized to restrict the content on Ike and Tina Turner's new compilation CD entitled The Early Sessions.
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