<I>"How sour sweet music is<BR>When time is broke and no proportion kept!"</I>

<I>"How sour sweet music is<BR>When time is broke and no proportion kept!"</I>

<I>"How sour sweet music is<BR>When time is broke and no proportion kept!"</I>

<I>"How sour sweet music is<BR>When time is broke and no proportion kept!"</I>

<I>"How sour sweet music is<BR>When time is broke and no proportion kept!"</I>

<I>"How sour sweet music is<BR>When time is broke and no proportion kept!"</I>

<I>"How sour sweet music is<BR>When time is broke and no proportion kept!"</I>

Audio retail revival: Electronics retailers throughout the US are ramping up their commitment to audio separates, according to a June 21 report by Joseph Palenchar in <I>TWICE</I> (This Week in Consumer Electronics). Palenchar describes the new emphasis on audio components as a response to declining margins on "home theater in a box" (HtiB) systems. Through April of this year, factory-to-dealer audio component sales rose 29.8% to $344.6 million, with April sales up 41.9%, hitting a four-year high of $86.9 million.

Will surround sound rejuvenate the music industry? That's the position many record label execs took when adding the capability to DVD-Audio and SACD years ago. But while they wait for the high-rez formats to catch on, <A HREF="http://www.srslabs.com">SRS Labs</A> has decided to add multichannel audio to the conventional compact disc.

Brian Damkroger listens long and hard to the <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/digitalsourcereviews/604primare">Primare D30.2 CD player</A> noting, "Primare is reluctant to provide much technical detail about their designs, preferring to let their products do the talking." So after a little chatting, BD files his report.