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What process do you use to compare components?
Stereophile  |  Sep 03, 2000  |  70 comments

You've decided to add a new piece of equipment to your system. Now begins the process of figuring out which make and model you want. How do you test products to make sure you get the right stuff?

What process do you use to compare components?
My comparison process includes:
84% (68 votes)
I don't compare, but buy on instinct.
2% (2 votes)
I don't compare, but buy on recommendations.
14% (11 votes)
Total votes: 81
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Universal, BMG Embrace "Advanced Audio Coding" for Downloads
Barry Willis  |  Sep 03, 2000  |  0 comments
An improved digital-audio compression standard has been adopted by the Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) and the Universal Music Group for commercial music downloads. "Advanced Audio Coding" (AAC) is said to offer higher audio quality while occupying 30% less bandwidth and storage space than the popular MP3 format, according to an announcement from San Francisco–based Dolby Laboratories.
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Nearing End of Litigation, MP3.com will offer Music Marketing Services
Barry Willis  |  Sep 03, 2000  |  0 comments
Music lovers who availed themselves of MP3.com's uploading-archiving-and-accessing services are about to become the next target market for the music industry. Nearing the end of protracted litigation brought against it by the music industry's "Big Five," the online music venture has announced a marketing service that will promote new commercial recordings directly to its users through e-mails. The recordings will be on labels under the control of MP3.com's opponents in the year-long copyright wrangle.
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The DIY Chronicles, Part Two
Hervé Delétraz  |  Sep 03, 2000  |  0 comments
Editor's Note: This is Part Two of a six-part series from reader Hervé Delétraz of Switzerland, who is chronicling the development of his DIY (do-it-yourself) audio amplifier. (Part One is here.)
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Added to the Archives This Week
Stereophile Staff  |  Sep 03, 2000  |  0 comments
Dynaudio US's president, Al Filippelli, tells Wes Phillips that "Dynaudio speakers are a lot like the Danes who make them. They don't look all that fancy, but they tell the truth and they get the job done. To a lot of audiophiles, that's boring. But there are a lot of people who have been looking for those qualities in a loudspeaker, and for them, boring can be cause for excitement." Phillips takes an in-depth look at the Dynaudio Contour 3.3 loudspeaker to determine if "boring" can make him happy.
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More Internet Retailing Announcements
Jon Iverson  |  Sep 03, 2000  |  0 comments
Spotting another online niche, Hifi.com announced the debut of CustomHifi.com last week. The new site is aimed at custom installers. HiFi.com claims that CustomHifi.com is the first "comprehensive national, Internet-centric marketplace to offer custom electronic design and installation professionals access to leading audio/video products, information, and installation support."
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Solid State Power Amp Reviews
Bryston 9B-THX five-channel power amplifier
Larry Greenhill  |  Sep 01, 2000  |  0 comments
Bright April Sunday sunshine beams through the bay window of my listening room. The light catches four loudspeakers on stands, two stacks of electronic equipment, a small video monitor, black cables strung behind furniture, and a pile of freshly opened DVDs. I sit in the center in a large, overstuffed chair covered in blue velvet, listening to an array of six loudspeakers and a TV monitor playing The Haunting's DTS soundtrack. The floor rumbles as the sounds of creaking timbers come up from below.
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Floor Loudspeaker Reviews
Magnepan Magneplanar MG3.6/R loudspeaker
Brian Damkroger  |  Aug 31, 2000  |  0 comments
Bonnie and I decided to avoid the crowds last weekend, and instead settled in at home to watch the recent remake of Great Expectations, with Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow. It seemed like a pretty good movie, but before long I found my thoughts drifting to the review I had in progress: my audition and analysis of the Magnepan Magneplanar MG3.6/R. True, Great Expectations is a little slow, and a few explosions or car chases might have better held my attention, but if ever there was an audio product to which the phrase "great expectations" applied, it's the Magnepan 3.6/R.
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Recording of the Month
Recording of August 2000: Mahler: Symphony 6
David Patrick Stearns  |  Aug 30, 2000  |  0 comments
MAHLER: Symphony 6
Manhattan School of Music Symphony Orchestra, Glen Cortese (cond.)
Titanic 257 (CD). 2000. Charles G. Thomas, exec. prod., Jerry Bruck, eng., Michael Karas and Eric Wagner, assoc. engs. AAD? TT: 76:27
Performance: ****?
Sonics: *****
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Wadia Auction Postponed for Two Weeks
Barry Willis  |  Aug 29, 2000  |  0 comments
The public auction of the assets of Wadia Digital Corporation has been postponed for at least two weeks, according to an employee of the Minneapolis law firm Siegel, Brill, Greupner, Duffy & Foster, P.A., which is handling the liquidation.
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