Over the past year or so, a parade of expensive loudspeakers has passed through my listening room (footnote 1), each claimed by its manufacturer to deliver the real musical deal. Like the people who designed them, these speakers have come in all shapes, sizes, and personalities. While the designer of every one of these speakers has claimed "accuracy" and "transparency" as his goal, the truth is, <I>any</I> concoction of pulsing cones, ribbons, sheets of Mylar, or whatever that's bolted into or on top of a box makes music because it is a musical instrument. How could it be otherwise, when all of these accomplished and expensive loudspeakers have sounded very different from one another, and made me <I> feel</I> different while listening to them?

I don't know whether Sam Tellig or I first discovered the delights of some slightly idiosyncratic loudspeakers made by Triangle&mdash;<I>Tree-ON-gle</I>, if you add the relevant accent&mdash;in the northeastern corner of France. I do recall feeling quite relieved to find that I wasn't the only hi-fi writer who liked and wrote about them.

I don't know whether Sam Tellig or I first discovered the delights of some slightly idiosyncratic loudspeakers made by Triangle&mdash;<I>Tree-ON-gle</I>, if you add the relevant accent&mdash;in the northeastern corner of France. I do recall feeling quite relieved to find that I wasn't the only hi-fi writer who liked and wrote about them.

I don't know whether Sam Tellig or I first discovered the delights of some slightly idiosyncratic loudspeakers made by Triangle&mdash;<I>Tree-ON-gle</I>, if you add the relevant accent&mdash;in the northeastern corner of France. I do recall feeling quite relieved to find that I wasn't the only hi-fi writer who liked and wrote about them.

I don't know whether Sam Tellig or I first discovered the delights of some slightly idiosyncratic loudspeakers made by Triangle&mdash;<I>Tree-ON-gle</I>, if you add the relevant accent&mdash;in the northeastern corner of France. I do recall feeling quite relieved to find that I wasn't the only hi-fi writer who liked and wrote about them.

I don't know whether Sam Tellig or I first discovered the delights of some slightly idiosyncratic loudspeakers made by Triangle&mdash;<I>Tree-ON-gle</I>, if you add the relevant accent&mdash;in the northeastern corner of France. I do recall feeling quite relieved to find that I wasn't the only hi-fi writer who liked and wrote about them.

I don't know whether Sam Tellig or I first discovered the delights of some slightly idiosyncratic loudspeakers made by Triangle&mdash;<I>Tree-ON-gle</I>, if you add the relevant accent&mdash;in the northeastern corner of France. I do recall feeling quite relieved to find that I wasn't the only hi-fi writer who liked and wrote about them.

<A HREF="http://www.stereovox.com">Stereovox</A&gt; has introduced a more affordable Studio series of cables to complement its extravagant Reference products. (John Marks raved about them <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/thefifthelement/742/index2.html">here</A&gt;.) The new Studio HDSE (high-definition single-ended) interconnects are thin and flexible, but each cable is constructed from a single high-purity 0.008" thick copper <I>tube</I>, clad in a silver-plated copper woven shield, with pure tape-wrapped full-density PTFE Teflon dielectric and an FEP jacket. The Studio cables employ a new chrome-plated Xhadow&#8482; Reference precision-machined RCA connector.

On March 10, <A HREF="http://www.tymphany.com ">Tymphany Corporation</A> and <A HREF="http://www.d-s-t.com">Danish Sound Technology</A> (DST) announced a merger of the two companies, funded by Vantage Point Venture Partners. The combined company, to be called Tymphany Corporation, will have its headquarters in Cupertino, CA.