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CEA: "Bright Spots" in Audio Sales
Stereophile Staff  |  Aug 19, 2001  |  0 comments
First, the bad news: Sales of stand-alone, two-channel audio products declined in the month of June by 1.8% to $164 million, according to recently published statistics from the Consumer Electronics Association.
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Floor Loudspeaker Reviews
Audio Physic Avanti III loudspeaker
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 19, 2001  |  0 comments
Success can be a two-edged sword. With the Virgo (reviewed in September 1995), Audio Physic created a $5000/pair benchmark product at the midpoint of the company's speaker lineup. While an upgraded, $5800 Virgo is due out soon, the original version will remain in production, its price dropping to $4495/pair—less than it cost six years ago.
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Are you still interested in buying a CD-only player for your system?
Arnel Enero  |  Aug 12, 2001  |  138 comments

Reader Arnel Enero wonders if the advent of DVD-Audio and SACD has dampened your desire for a new CD-only player.

Are you still interested in buying a CD-only player for your system?
Yes, planning to buy soon
10% (32 votes)
Yes, quite interested
15% (45 votes)
Yes, but only slightly
14% (43 votes)
Just bought one
19% (59 votes)
Not really interested anymore
27% (83 votes)
Never again!
15% (48 votes)
Total votes: 310
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Antitrust Probe of Online Music Plans
Barry Willis  |  Aug 12, 2001  |  0 comments
When does cooperation become collusion? When does collusion become anti-competitive? Investigators at the US Justice Department have begun asking such questions in regard to plans by major music labels to make their wares available on the Internet.
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Added to the Archives This Week
Stereophile Staff  |  Aug 12, 2001  |  0 comments
As Larry Greenhill states in his review of the MartinLogan Prodigy loudspeaker, "Electrostatic speakers are my passion." But Greenhill's heard a lot of great 'stats in his time, so he was "both excited and uneasy" when a review pair of MartinLogan's latest arrived in his listening room. He needn't have worried.
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Electronics Retailing Slow in July
Stereophile Staff  |  Aug 12, 2001  |  0 comments
Summer is traditionally the slowest time of the year for electronics retailers. July 2001 confirmed the pattern, with sales figures down significantly from previous months.
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Wishful Format Thinking?
Jon Iverson  |  Aug 12, 2001  |  0 comments
Last week, InterTrust Technologies, which creates Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology, and format developer DataPlay announced a partnership intended to create a portable media distribution platform for protected content such as music. Universal Music Group, EMI Recorded Music, and BMG Entertainment have all announced that they are planning to release prerecorded music on the resultant DataPlay digital format for use in a variety of consumer electronic devices.
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CEA Supports Music Online Act
Barry Willis  |  Aug 12, 2001  |  0 comments
The Music Online Competition Act (MOCA) has won the imprimatur of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), according to an announcement made August 8. The recently-introduced bipartisan bill crafted by Congressmen Chris Cannon (R-Utah) and Rick Boucher (D-Virginia) intends to insure competition in the delivery of online music—and to preserve music lovers' rights to copy their own recordings for private use.
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One Million Protected CDs
Jon Iverson  |  Aug 12, 2001  |  0 comments
While Napster was thriving a few short months ago, the music business was noisily seething and quietly plotting. How could they put the digital audio genie back into the content-control bottle? Although Napster has since been gutted, the labels have identified the unprotected CD as the source of their woes, and now it's payback time.
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Floor Loudspeaker Reviews
Sony ES SS-M9ED loudspeaker
John Atkinson  |  Aug 12, 2001  |  0 comments
The occasion was the 1999 Consumer Electronics Show, and I had sought out the Sony suite at Bally's—the word in the Las Vegas bars where audio journalists hung out was that Sony was demonstrating the production version of their SCD-1 Super Audio CD player. I was glad I'd made the trek along the Strip: As I reported in the May 1999 Stereophile, the sound of a DMP recording—of unaccompanied choral music recorded and mixed in DSD by Tom Jung—was breathtaking, I felt, with an exquisite sense of space. It was definitely the best sound at the CES.
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