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Dell Previews Digital Audio Receiver
Jon Iverson  |  Jun 25, 2000  |  0 comments
One can almost imagine how it all started: "Hey, you got a computer in my audio system." "No, you got an audio system in my computer . . . "
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Think Pieces
High-End Audio is Here to Stay!
Gigi Krop  |  Jun 25, 2000  |  0 comments
It was 2am on January 8, 2000, and I was sitting at the bar of the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas. I'd just arrived for the Consumer Electronics Show and was recovering from a stressful day of travel. The airlines have a new computerized ticketing technology called the "electronic ticket": you get a reservation and a confirmation number, but no physical plane ticket, itinerary, or the feelings of security that accompany those pieces of paper.
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Stand Loudspeaker Reviews
Thiel PCS loudspeaker
John Atkinson  |  Jun 25, 2000  |  0 comments
Although Kentucky loudspeaker manufacturer Thiel has produced some standmounted models for home-theater use, all of their serious music speakers have been floorstanders. Enter the PCS: even though styled to match every Thiel speaker since the groundbreaking CS5 of 1989, the 19"-high PCS sits on a stand, not the floor.
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Stand Loudspeaker Reviews
Mirage MRM-1 loudspeaker
John Atkinson  |  Jun 23, 2000  |  0 comments
The Mirage OM-6 loudspeaker, from Canadian manufacturer Audio Products International, mightily impressed Stereophile's Tom Norton when he reviewed it back in November 1997. But with its "omnipolar" design and powered woofer, the OM-6 wasn't a speaker for those of us with more conventional tastes in speaker design. So when I heard that Mirage's Ian Paisley was working on a high-performance two-way minimonitor based on the OM-6's drive-unit technology, I asked API's affable PR man, Jeff Percy, for review samples.
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Music and Recording Features
Climbing Everest Barefoot: the Emerson String Quartet
Wes Phillips  |  Jun 22, 2000  |  0 comments
The Emerson String Quartet defies conventional wisdom. They like to take risks, and they use the adrenaline that creates to hone their music-making to a fine edge.
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What is the worst album of all time?
Stereophile Staff  |  Jun 18, 2000  |  73 comments

We're on a roll here, folks. Last week you told us about the worst singles of all time. Now let's up the ante: what about the worst albums?

What is the worst album of all time?
The winner is . . .
60% (49 votes)
So many choices . . .
40% (33 votes)
Total votes: 82
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Classical Musicians Embrace the Internet
Barry Willis  |  Jun 18, 2000  |  0 comments
With the music industry in retreat from classical music, dozens of the nation’s symphony orchestras, opera and ballet companies have decided to bring their work directly to the people. On June 12, an association of 66 orchestras and opera groups signed an agreement with the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) that will let them put their music on the Internet, without interference or fee extraction by the recording business.
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Audio Paradigm Shift Ahead
Jon Iverson  |  Jun 18, 2000  |  0 comments
CD changers holding hundreds of discs at a time have found their place in a sizable percentage of consumer homes, and have proven especially useful in the custom installation market. Fans of these mega-changers love to drop their discs into one place, never having to crack open a CD case again. Drawbacks, however, include not being able to easily move the disc from home to car or portable, and the mechanical whirring and clanking the machines make as they slowly plow through the user's playlist.
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Audio Sales Continue To Go Boom
Stereophile Staff  |  Jun 18, 2000  |  0 comments
According to numbers just released by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), April audio factory-to-dealer sales shot up by 13% to $611 million, representing a year-to-date increase of 10%. The CEA says that audio revenues in all categories except aftermarket autosound experienced double-digit growth in both monthly and year-to-date sales. Aftermarket autosound remained steady, keeping pace with its record-breaking sales in 1999.
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Dark Side of the Rainbow?
Jon Iverson  |  Jun 18, 2000  |  0 comments
When spying this press release a couple of days ago, I had to read it twice—this was too good to be true. A couple of years back in the September 1997 (or as JA likes to put it: Vol.20 No.9) Stereophile "Industry Update," I had reported on the then-discovered "synchronicities" phenomena: playing certain classic rock albums, when sync'ed up with certain classic films yielded several uncanny coincidences twixt music and screen. Watching and listening this way could lead one to almost believe that the albums were created as soundtracks to the films.
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