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How would you categorize your audio system?
Stereophile  |  May 17, 1998

It's been a decade since the analog vs. digital debate began. Where has your system ended up?

How would you categorize your audio system?
All analog
2% (6 votes)
All digital
25% (80 votes)
Mostly analog
22% (72 votes)
Mostly digital
27% (88 votes)
Even mix of the two
23% (75 votes)
Total votes: 321
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CEMA Sponsoring Product Return Conference
Barry Willis  |  May 17, 1998
Returned products are problematic for consumers, retailers, and manufacturers. Returns have always eaten into profits in the audio and video business. Everybody knows that. What isn't widely known is that the Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association sponsors an annual conference to help deal with the problem.
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Petersen Publishing Agrees to Acquire Stereophile, Inc.
Stereophile Staff  |  May 17, 1998
On May 18, 1998, James D. Dunning, Jr., Chairman and CEO of the Petersen Companies, Inc., announced an agreement to acquire Stereophile Magazine and Stereophile Guide to Home Theater---two of this country's leading high-end audio and home-theater publications---as well as HI-FI '98, The Home Theater & Specialty Audio Show.
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HI-FI '98 Product Previews, Part Two
Stereophile Staff  |  May 17, 1998
Hundreds of manufacturers will be demonstrating state-of-the-art audio products at HI-FI '98---some of which have never before been seen by the public.
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Wherehouse Bids for Blockbuster Music
Barry Willis  |  May 17, 1998
Media conglomerate Viacom, parent company of Blockbuster Music, has reportedly put the ailing chain on the auction block. Most likely buyer is Torrance, California-based music retailer Wherehouse Entertainment, Inc., which has 220 stores of its own, primarily on the West Coast. On Wednesday, May 13, Reuters news service reported that Wherehouse had tendered an offer of $200 million for Blockbuster. Wherehouse has been in intermittent discussions for several months with Viacom.
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Blumenthal's First Two Listener's Guides Now Available
Barry Willis  |  May 17, 1998
Author and television producer Howard J. Blumenthal has completed his Jazz and World Music CD Listener's Guides, the first two volumes in a four-volume series. The publications include brief biographies of the top artists in each genre, arranged alphabetically, and hundreds of short reviews of the discs the author considers essential.
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Floor Loudspeaker Reviews
Sonus Faber Concerto Grand Piano loudspeaker
Michael Fremer  |  May 17, 1998
I've never heard a pair of the Italian Sonus Faber speakers I didn't like. What I've never liked was the US price: too high. And then you have to put them on costly stands. Plus, you're paying a premium for the magnificent woodworking and exquisite design—something I wasn't into, since I live with my stereo in a basement office/workshop/listening room some (who shall remain nameless) refer to as the "habitat for inhumanity."
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Tube Preamp Reviews
Conrad-Johnson ART Preamplifier
Wes Phillips  |  May 15, 1998
Almost two years ago, Conrad-Johnson's Lew Johnson came to Santa Fe while visiting his western dealers. We were chatting about acquaintances in the industry as I showed him the new house I'd barely moved into when he spread a blueprint across a stack of record boxes and showed me a design for a new product.
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How many CDs and LPs are in your collection?
Bob Wood  |  May 10, 1998

Maybe it doesn't really matter how much music you have if you've got those three great albums that do it for you every time, but some folks just can't stop collecting. How about you?

How many CDs and LPs are in your collection?
Fewer than 100
2% (8 votes)
100-300
21% (73 votes)
301-600
27% (92 votes)
601-1000
20% (68 votes)
1001-2000
17% (57 votes)
2001-5000
8% (26 votes)
More than 5000
5% (16 votes)
Total votes: 340
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Ailing Carver Gets Transfusion, Will Try Direct Sales
Barry Willis  |  May 10, 1998
On Tuesday, May 5, beleaguered Carver announced that it had received a financial transfusion of almost $400,000 and that it would make a move into direct marketing in an attempt to bolster flagging sales. The Woodinville, Washingon-based company announced in a press release that it "had closed a sale of 3,000,000 shares of restricted Common Stock of the Company to one of its preferred shareholders, Renwick Special Situations Fund, L.P., for $375,000, or $0.125 per share."
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