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Floor Loudspeaker Reviews
Sonus Faber Cremona loudspeaker
John Atkinson  |  Mar 14, 2004  |  First Published: Mar 01, 2004  |  0 comments
"The Sonus Faber Cremona is the finest cabinet-built speaker I have heard for under $10,000/pair," wrote the usually reticent Sam Tellig in the January 2003 Stereophile. "Bravissimo...Molto, molto bene" he added to his paean of praise for the Italian speaker manufacturer's founder and chief engineer, Franco Serblin.
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Have you listened to DVD-Audio much? What do you think about the sound?
Stereophile  |  Mar 14, 2004  |  79 comments

Its future as a format may also be debatable, but does DVD-Audio have the sonic goods? Have you been able to spend much time with DVD-Audio? If so, what do you think about the way it sounds?

Have you listened to DVD-Audio much? What do you think about the sound?
It's wonderful
20% (44 votes)
Pretty good
12% (26 votes)
Okay
5% (11 votes)
What's the big deal?
8% (18 votes)
Don't care for it
7% (16 votes)
Have not listened enough to have an opinion
47% (104 votes)
Total votes: 219
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News
Apple in the Sauce
Barry Willis  |  Mar 08, 2004  |  0 comments
Apple Computer is riding a wave that shows no sign of breaking.
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Added to the Archives This Week
Stereophile Staff  |  Mar 08, 2004  |  0 comments
Bits is bits? In the December 1990 issue, John Atkinson explored in "Jitter, Bits, & Sound Quality" why digital audio turns out to be a complicated process. He writes, "As my violin teacher used to say, 'The right note in the wrong place is the wrong note.'" And so it is with digital data, as JA explains in this groundbreaking report.
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News
Retailing on the Rise?
Barry Willis  |  Mar 08, 2004  |  0 comments
Electronics retailers may be bouncing back from a long slump, according to a couple of recent reports.
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Warner Reorgs and Slashes
Jon Iverson  |  Mar 08, 2004  |  0 comments
As promised earlier in January, Warner Music Group has announced a major restructuring that it hopes will put it in better shape to compete in the "challenging business environment of today's music industry." The move comes after the recent closing of WMG's $2.6 billion acquisition by Edgar Bronfman, Jr. and a group of investors.
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US Music Shipments Drop Again
Barry Willis  |  Mar 08, 2004  |  0 comments
Recorded music as a packaged-goods commodity continues to decline, according to figures released March 4 by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
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Better Audio Downloads
Jon Iverson  |  Mar 08, 2004  |  0 comments
Four short years ago, rock band Metallica angered part of its fan base by going after downloaders who used the online file-trading service Napster. At that time, the band provided Napster with the screen names of 335,000 users reputed to be pirating Metallica's music, and demanded they be removed from the service. The group was also the first to sue the fledgling company.
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As We See It
We Get Letters
John Atkinson  |  Mar 07, 2004  |  First Published: Mar 01, 2004  |  0 comments
One of my mentors, John Crabbe—my predecessor as editor of the English magazine Hi-Fi News—used to insist that a magazine's soul is its "Letters" column. If a magazine was able to publish a lively collection of readers' letters, said John, it would enjoy a lengthy life. Conversely, if its letters column was dull or nonexistent, then no matter how much advertising it had or how many readers it could boast, it was just a matter of time before it had the lid shut on it. In the 28 years since John told me this, I have not found an exception. The kicker, of course, is that there's no easy way of ensuring that a magazine has lively letters to publish.
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Room Treatment Reviews
Acoustic Sciences Corporation Studio Traps
Jonathan Scull  |  Mar 07, 2004  |  First Published: Dec 01, 1998  |  0 comments
Over time I've successfully used a variety of tuning devices to refine the acoustics in Kathleen's and my listening room. But I've always suspected that Acoustic Science's Tube Traps might be a good way to finish it off. I've occasionally asked visitors to stand in one spot or another behind the speakers as I listened for tergiversation (ie, "to change one's tune"; Hoo-hah!). I found several locations where a nice, dense audiophile body made an improvement to the sound.
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