"You need to keep still."

I saw it coming back in 1996. That was when Rega introduced their full-bore assault on the state of the art of record replay, the Planar 9 turntable. The P9 was and is a superb product, but because it sells for $3900&mdash;more than five times the price of the company's bread-and-butter model, the venerable Rega Planar 3&mdash;its introduction created an enormous price gap. And that's not to mention all the numbers between 3 and 9 that have languished for so long: How could you <I>not</I> expect Rega to fill in the blanks with Planars 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8?

I saw it coming back in 1996. That was when Rega introduced their full-bore assault on the state of the art of record replay, the Planar 9 turntable. The P9 was and is a superb product, but because it sells for $3900&mdash;more than five times the price of the company's bread-and-butter model, the venerable Rega Planar 3&mdash;its introduction created an enormous price gap. And that's not to mention all the numbers between 3 and 9 that have languished for so long: How could you <I>not</I> expect Rega to fill in the blanks with Planars 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8?

I saw it coming back in 1996. That was when Rega introduced their full-bore assault on the state of the art of record replay, the Planar 9 turntable. The P9 was and is a superb product, but because it sells for $3900&mdash;more than five times the price of the company's bread-and-butter model, the venerable Rega Planar 3&mdash;its introduction created an enormous price gap. And that's not to mention all the numbers between 3 and 9 that have languished for so long: How could you <I>not</I> expect Rega to fill in the blanks with Planars 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8?

I saw it coming back in 1996. That was when Rega introduced their full-bore assault on the state of the art of record replay, the Planar 9 turntable. The P9 was and is a superb product, but because it sells for $3900&mdash;more than five times the price of the company's bread-and-butter model, the venerable Rega Planar 3&mdash;its introduction created an enormous price gap. And that's not to mention all the numbers between 3 and 9 that have languished for so long: How could you <I>not</I> expect Rega to fill in the blanks with Planars 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8?

I saw it coming back in 1996. That was when Rega introduced their full-bore assault on the state of the art of record replay, the Planar 9 turntable. The P9 was and is a superb product, but because it sells for $3900—more than five times the price of the company's bread-and-butter model, the venerable Rega Planar 3—its introduction created an enormous price gap. And that's not to mention all the numbers between 3 and 9 that have languished for so long: How could you not expect Rega to fill in the blanks with Planars 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8?

While a relative trickle of copy-restricted CDs have been released in the US, European labels have been more likely to experiment with lock-down technology. Russia is battling extreme piracy, as its culture and mass communications minister, Aleksandr Sokolov, reported to his government last week, asserting that pirated wares account for 80&ndash;90% of the overall audio and video sales in that country.

Music industry executives widely believe that "ring tones"&mdash;snippets of favorite tunes&mdash;and music downloadable to cell phones will be the next big trend, perhaps one that could help restore some luster to the industry's tarnished bottom line. "Music-related products for PCs and mobile phones are on pace to deliver as much as $500 million in combined revenue in the US for 2004, according to Nielsen SoundScan figures and analysts' projections," reported Brian Garrity in a mid-December issue of <I>Billboard</I>.

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