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CD Player/Transport Reviews
AH! Njoe Tjoeb 4000 CD player
Chip Stern  |  Nov 23, 2003  |  First Published: Nov 01, 2003  |  0 comments
Audiophiles once took it as given that LPs sounded better than CDs—end of discussion. Things are no longer so cut-and-dried. In my seven years as a contributing editor to Stereophile, I've seen an enormous improvement in the quality of digital software and playback-delivery systems. The early-1980s recording and remastering anomalies that made listening to early digital recordings so fatiguing are largely things of the past, though advocates of massive compression, jacked-up gain, and compensatory EQ ("Sounds-better-on-cheap-radios," they dully chant) continue to sully the waters of natural resolution.
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Have you bought into one or both of the high-rez audio formats
Stereophile  |  Nov 23, 2003  |  0 comments

So, how are the format wars going? DVD-A or SACD or both? Have you bought into one or both of the high-rez audio formats

Have you bought into one or both of the high-rez audio formats
I've got a universal player
15% (48 votes)
I've got a DVD-Audio player
4% (14 votes)
I've got a SACD player
33% (103 votes)
Don't have either but will soon
13% (41 votes)
Don't have either and don't care
35% (110 votes)
Total votes: 316
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News
Added to the Archives This Week
Stereophile Staff  |  Nov 17, 2003  |  0 comments
John Atkinson gets his mitts on the PSB Platinum T8 loudspeaker and remarks that "talented loudspeaker engineers do not stand still, and neither do the resources and technology available to them." Does PSB's new flagship design live up to JA's expectations? All is revealed.
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Penaudio Arrives
Jon Iverson  |  Nov 17, 2003  |  0 comments
One of the visual highlights of the 2003 Consumer Electronics Show and HE 2003 in San Francisco was the Penaudio speakers, sporting a unique sliced-wood veneer wrapped around diminutive two-way designs. While the speakers were easy on the eyes, it wasn't so easy to find a pair to audition in the US.
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ESP Loudspeakers Returns
Kalman Rubinson  |  Nov 17, 2003  |  0 comments
Back in the 1990s, I lusted mightily for the large ESP speakers with their tall, slim shapes and their angled driver panels. A large-room demo of the Concert Grands with Sonic Frontiers electronics still reverberates in my memory. Unfortunately, just as I evolved to the point where I could consider buying a pair of Concert Grands, the company folded its tents. Recently, I heard a rumor that ESP might be returning, and an email exchange with founder and designer Sean McCaughan has confirmed the good news.
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2004 Stereophile Buyer's Guide
John Atkinson  |  Nov 17, 2003  |  0 comments
The 2004 Stereophile Buyer's Guide hits the newsstands this week. Within its 228 jumbo-sized and color-coded pages you'll find listings of every audio component currently available in the US (other than boomboxes and other portable players), along with their specifications and prices. It also includes what we feel is the most complete listing of audio manufacturer websites on the planet.
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New Publisher for Stereophile
John Atkinson  |  Nov 17, 2003  |  0 comments
John Gourlay, Stereophile's publisher since 1998, left the company at the beginning of November. John had been a valued collaborator and the moving force behind the launch of the 2004 Stereophile Buyer's Guide (see related story). We all wish him well in his future career.
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Recording of the Month
Recording of November 2003: Heartbreak Hill
Robert Baird  |  Nov 16, 2003  |  First Published: Nov 01, 2003  |  0 comments
ALBERT LEE: Heartbreak Hill
Sugar Hill SUG-CD-3977A (CD). 2003. Albert Lee, Steve Fishell, prods.; Dave Sinko, Larry Getz, engs. AAD? TT: 43:51
Performance ****½
Sonics ****
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As We See It
Noise Pollution
Jim Austin  |  Nov 16, 2003  |  First Published: Nov 01, 2003  |  0 comments
"Imagine a lake," reads the website of the Noise Pollution Clearinghouse (NPC) , "filled with semi-tractor-trailer trucks, magically skimming across the water.
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Floor Loudspeaker Reviews
Tannoy Dimension TD12 loudspeaker
Art Dudley  |  Nov 16, 2003  |  First Published: Nov 01, 2003  |  0 comments
My friend Harvey Rosenberg, who had more clever ideas in a day than most of us have in a lifetime, was a Tannoy loudspeaker enthusiast. I, on the other hand, had little experience with the brand before 1995, when Harvey invited me to come over and hear his then-new Tannoy Westminster Royals.
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