ProAc's designer Stuart Tyler sounded casual—almost bemused—when I spoke with him recently about the new 2.5, a floorstanding, two-way ported box in the middle price slot ($4500/pair) of his Response series. While answering my pressing queries about the crossover point, driver materials, cabinet construction, and other reviewer obsessions, his body language said, "Does any of that really matter with these speakers? You know what the real story is here."

ProAc's designer Stuart Tyler sounded casual—almost bemused—when I spoke with him recently about the new 2.5, a floorstanding, two-way ported box in the middle price slot ($4500/pair) of his Response series. While answering my pressing queries about the crossover point, driver materials, cabinet construction, and other reviewer obsessions, his body language said, "Does any of that really matter with these speakers? You know what the real story is here."

ProAc's designer Stuart Tyler sounded casual—almost bemused—when I spoke with him recently about the new 2.5, a floorstanding, two-way ported box in the middle price slot ($4500/pair) of his Response series. While answering my pressing queries about the crossover point, driver materials, cabinet construction, and other reviewer obsessions, his body language said, "Does any of that really matter with these speakers? You know what the real story is here."

"Wanted: Linn Axis turntable or similar, 555-1234."

On June 27, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of Metro-Goldwin-Mayer (MGM), agreeing that peer-to-peer file-sharing services such as StreamCast Networks and Grokster could be held responsible (<I>read:</I> be sued) if they encouraged their users to infringe copyrights. This will return the "MGM <I>vs</I> Grokster" case to a lower court, where it will be determined whether or not the P2P companies encouraged their users to violate copyright laws.

The music industry has been telling us for years that peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing is a bad thing. But a New York company has decided the record labels had it wrong and that it merely needed to harness P2P's power.

A company other than ProAc best describes the Future One: "And now for something completely different!" Of course, <I>that</I> was a company of British comedians. There's nothing funny about the talented British speaker designer Stuart Tyler's latest effort, but there <I>is</I> something odd: Tyler is reputed to have said of the Future One, "This is the loudspeaker I have always wanted to build."

A company other than ProAc best describes the Future One: "And now for something completely different!" Of course, <I>that</I> was a company of British comedians. There's nothing funny about the talented British speaker designer Stuart Tyler's latest effort, but there <I>is</I> something odd: Tyler is reputed to have said of the Future One, "This is the loudspeaker I have always wanted to build."

A company other than ProAc best describes the Future One: "And now for something completely different!" Of course, <I>that</I> was a company of British comedians. There's nothing funny about the talented British speaker designer Stuart Tyler's latest effort, but there <I>is</I> something odd: Tyler is reputed to have said of the Future One, "This is the loudspeaker I have always wanted to build."