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Audio Networking Advances
Jon Iverson  |  Mar 02, 2003  |  0 comments
One of the most significant trends in audio, witnessed at the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, is the emergence of the music server market. Pioneer, Panasonic, Marantz, Meridian, Onkyo, Rotel, Philips, Linn, and others have emphasized audio products that can be networked with each other and the Internet, and are able to share content throughout a home. Pioneer even suggests that networks will not necessarily involve a PC, but instead consist of dedicated music-server-like components.
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Cutting Off the Studio Pirates
Jon Iverson  |  Mar 02, 2003  |  0 comments
It has become commonplace these days for a hot album to hit the streets days—if not weeks or even months—before its official release, inspiring all manner of stupid promo tricks on the part of record labels. Pearl Jam's recent Riot Act was distributed to the press in portable CD players with the lids glued shut and last week saw the White Stripes record label create 500 promo vinyl LPs of the group's impending Elephant release in place of the traditional advance CDs in an effort to stymie the digital pirate's plans.
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Bonus DVDs Fight Piracy?
Barry Willis  |  Mar 02, 2003  |  0 comments
The music industry's reaction to a prolonged sales slump has been a desperate effort to create legislative and technological deterrents to force consumers to stop downloading MP3s and copying CDs.
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Added to the Archives This Week
Stereophile Staff  |  Mar 02, 2003  |  0 comments
You want controversy? We got major controversy right here. In 1991, the Tice R-4 TPT and Coherence ElectroTec EP-C "Clocks" were released and then the fun started. Read everything Stereophile writers and readers had to say about these contentious products, as well as comments from the manufacturer.
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What's the farthest you've travelled to audition a piece of audio gear and what was it?
Stereophile  |  Feb 23, 2003  |  63 comments

Now that we've established that many of you will buy equipment without an audition, let's find out how far you have travelled to actually hear something you are interested in purchasing. Tell us about your most epic audition odyssey.

What's the farthest you've travelled to audition a piece of audio gear and what was it?
Up to 50 miles
31% (35 votes)
50 to 100 miles
19% (22 votes)
100-200 miles
16% (18 votes)
200-300 miles
8% (9 votes)
300-500 miles
7% (8 votes)
500-1000 miles
7% (8 votes)
1000-2000 miles
2% (2 votes)
2000-3000 miles
4% (4 votes)
More than 3000 miles
6% (7 votes)
Total votes: 113
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Copy Protection Based on Obsolete Model?
Stereophile Staff  |  Feb 23, 2003  |  0 comments
Copy protection efforts currently being initiated by national lawmakers at the behest of the entertainment industry are based on a model of Internet use that will soon become obsolete, according to Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig.
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Digital Rights Summit
Jon Iverson  |  Feb 23, 2003  |  0 comments
It's tough to know which CDs, SACDs, and DVD-Audio discs have been restricted through watermarks or other "copy protection" techniques. This has created a thriving underground community, with websites such as Fat Chuck's devoted to sussing out the corrupted audio products and posting notification to consumers.
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Added to the Archives This Week
Stereophile Staff  |  Feb 23, 2003  |  0 comments
Paul Bolin exclaims, "Looking at the current digital scene is enough to confuse and confound just about anyone this side of Stephen Hawking." Bolin's review of the Ayre Acoustics D-1x DVD-Video/CD player is here to clear things up.
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Orrin Hatch vs Big Radio
Barry Willis  |  Feb 23, 2003  |  0 comments
Only a month after being scrutinized by the Senate Commerce Committee, Clear Channel Communications may have to explain itself to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Music Publishers Sue Bertelsmann
Barry Willis  |  Feb 23, 2003  |  0 comments
In October 2000, during Napster's prolonged courtroom agony, Bertelsmann AG alienated fellow music industry plaintiffs by investing $50 million in a strategic partnership with the file-sharing upstart. At the time, Bertelsmann hoped to leverage Napster's technical expertise and fame to give Bertelsmann Music Group the inside track with Internet music distribution.
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