"The Sonus Faber Cremona is the finest cabinet-built speaker I have heard for under $10,000/pair," wrote the usually reticent Sam Tellig in the January 2003 <I>Stereophile</I>. "<I>Bravissimo...Molto, molto bene</I>" he added to his paean of praise for the Italian speaker manufacturer's founder and chief engineer, Franco Serblin.

"The Sonus Faber Cremona is the finest cabinet-built speaker I have heard for under $10,000/pair," wrote the usually reticent Sam Tellig in the January 2003 <I>Stereophile</I>. "<I>Bravissimo...Molto, molto bene</I>" he added to his paean of praise for the Italian speaker manufacturer's founder and chief engineer, Franco Serblin.

"The Sonus Faber Cremona is the finest cabinet-built speaker I have heard for under $10,000/pair," wrote the usually reticent Sam Tellig in the January 2003 <I>Stereophile</I>. "<I>Bravissimo...Molto, molto bene</I>" he added to his paean of praise for the Italian speaker manufacturer's founder and chief engineer, Franco Serblin.

Apple Computer is riding a wave that shows no sign of breaking.

Bits is bits? In the December 1990 issue, John Atkinson explored in <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/reference/1290jitter">"Jitter, Bits, & Sound Quality"</A> why digital audio turns out to be a complicated process. He writes, "As my violin teacher used to say, 'The right note in the wrong place is the wrong note.'" And so it is with digital data, as JA explains in this groundbreaking report.

Electronics retailers may be bouncing back from a long slump, according to a couple of recent reports.

As <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/news/011904roundup/index.html">promised</A&gt; earlier in January, <A HREF="http://www.wmg.com">Warner Music Group</A> has announced a major restructuring that it hopes will put it in better shape to compete in the "challenging business environment of today's music industry." The move comes after the recent closing of WMG's $2.6 billion acquisition by Edgar Bronfman, Jr. and a group of investors.

Recorded music as a packaged-goods commodity continues to decline, according to figures released March 4 by the <A HREF="http://www.riaa.com/news/newsletter/030404.asp">Recording Industry Association of America</A> (RIAA).

Four short years ago, rock band Metallica angered part of its fan base by <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/news/10746/index.html">going after</A> downloaders who used the online file-trading service Napster. At that time, the band provided Napster with the screen names of 335,000 users reputed to be pirating Metallica's music, and demanded they be removed from the service. The group was also the <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/news/10725/">first to sue</A> the fledgling company.