One of our local, high end retailers (Ne Plus Ultra) put on a demo of David Wilson's new Alexandria and Duette loudspeakers this evening, with Wilson discussing his thoughts on loudspeakers and audio.

I won't make this a long, drawn-out post on the whole evening, but a couple of things that I found noteworthy are:

Last week, I picked up a used pair of Hales Transcendence 8's to go with my Revelation 3's, and I must say that I'm thrilled with both of these speakers systems. I've owned the Rev. 3's for eight years now--the longest I've owned any audio component--and I expect I'll have the T 8's for just as long.

Since I enjoy the pleasant luxury of ignoring DUP's posts, I can only suppose how this "thin issue" discussion began. I didn't notice the page count, and so far I've been too busy to give much attention to this month's content, but I couldn't be happier with what I have given attention to.

The letters always come first for me. I found myself making mental notes structuring a rebuttal to Rick Lee's somewhat disjointed comments on Larry Borden's "Truth vs. Beauty" only to forget them on seeing that Mr. Borden had done the job for me. Good show.

I recently purchased a pair of the Dali Helicon 800 speakers. I am extremely pleased with their musicality, the neutrality and full range capabilities of these wonderful speakers. As a side bonus the cabinetry is really great. I purchased a pair of the light cherry cabinets.

Help me out here because I'm just a wee bit confused.

First let me outline my present understanding of DRM (digital rights management) as it relates to DVDs and then as it is supposed to related to HD-DVD and Blu-Ray discs. After which I'll explain why I'm confusion.

On all commercial movie DVDs the data on them is encrypted to prevent copying. The data encryption scheme in use was broken not long after the first DVDs hit the shelves and people have been copying them ever since. So much for DVDs and DRM.