As a sci-fi fan, I can assure you that this never ends well.

The story behind <I>The Raft of the Medusa</I>. Like the painting, it isn't pretty, but you can't look away.

We attended the New York Philharmonic Saturday, and, if the classical record industry is in trouble, classical music is still vibrantly alive. <I>Ionarts</I> gets it precisely right, Saturday's concert was about as balanced a program as I've ever heard and it was a meeting of equals.

On a recent tour of Manhattan, Aperion Audio's Win Jeanfreau and Lorraine Janeway took some time to lunch with <I>Stereophile</I>'s Stephen Mejias, Robert J. Reina, and me. Reina had just reviewed the $750/pair Aperion Intimus 533-T loudspeakers in the April <I>Stereophile</I>, so we assumed that would be the main topic of conversation. As far as Jeanfreau and Janeway were concerned, however, that was ancient history. They were excited about more recent developments and future plans.

In the early 1980s, <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/interviews/1101ivor">Ivor Tiefenbrun</A>, of Linn Products, Ltd., compared digital audio to "a nasty disease" that his company offered not to spread. Less than 25 years later, digital sources outnumber analog ones in Linn's product line&mdash;so much so that the venerable Scottish manufacturer has expanded its line of disc players to encompass two different formats: multi- and two-channel.

In the early 1980s, <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/interviews/1101ivor">Ivor Tiefenbrun</A>, of Linn Products, Ltd., compared digital audio to "a nasty disease" that his company offered not to spread. Less than 25 years later, digital sources outnumber analog ones in Linn's product line&mdash;so much so that the venerable Scottish manufacturer has expanded its line of disc players to encompass two different formats: multi- and two-channel.

In the early 1980s, <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/interviews/1101ivor">Ivor Tiefenbrun</A>, of Linn Products, Ltd., compared digital audio to "a nasty disease" that his company offered not to spread. Less than 25 years later, digital sources outnumber analog ones in Linn's product line&mdash;so much so that the venerable Scottish manufacturer has expanded its line of disc players to encompass two different formats: multi- and two-channel.