Ah, Brazil...land of coffee, the samba, Pel&#233;, Rio-by-the-sea-o, and tube amplifiers. All right, so perhaps the amplifier connection isn't <I>quite</I> as well-established. But one Brazilian amplifier designer, Eduardo de Lima, has published articles in <I>Glass Audio</I> magazine that are viewed by many as groundbreaking, and his evolving products have been seen at various specialist tube equipment shows. De Lima&mdash;president, founder, product designer, and principal owner of Audiopax Sistemas Eletroacusticos&mdash;is an electrical engineer who started out designing equipment for a telecommunications company, but since 1995 he's devoted his talents to designing a wide range of audio products, including speakers as well as preamps and power amps.

Ah, Brazil...land of coffee, the samba, Pel&#233;, Rio-by-the-sea-o, and tube amplifiers. All right, so perhaps the amplifier connection isn't <I>quite</I> as well-established. But one Brazilian amplifier designer, Eduardo de Lima, has published articles in <I>Glass Audio</I> magazine that are viewed by many as groundbreaking, and his evolving products have been seen at various specialist tube equipment shows. De Lima&mdash;president, founder, product designer, and principal owner of Audiopax Sistemas Eletroacusticos&mdash;is an electrical engineer who started out designing equipment for a telecommunications company, but since 1995 he's devoted his talents to designing a wide range of audio products, including speakers as well as preamps and power amps.

Ah, Brazil...land of coffee, the samba, Pel&#233;, Rio-by-the-sea-o, and tube amplifiers. All right, so perhaps the amplifier connection isn't <I>quite</I> as well-established. But one Brazilian amplifier designer, Eduardo de Lima, has published articles in <I>Glass Audio</I> magazine that are viewed by many as groundbreaking, and his evolving products have been seen at various specialist tube equipment shows. De Lima&mdash;president, founder, product designer, and principal owner of Audiopax Sistemas Eletroacusticos&mdash;is an electrical engineer who started out designing equipment for a telecommunications company, but since 1995 he's devoted his talents to designing a wide range of audio products, including speakers as well as preamps and power amps.

Ah, Brazil...land of coffee, the samba, Pel&#233;, Rio-by-the-sea-o, and tube amplifiers. All right, so perhaps the amplifier connection isn't <I>quite</I> as well-established. But one Brazilian amplifier designer, Eduardo de Lima, has published articles in <I>Glass Audio</I> magazine that are viewed by many as groundbreaking, and his evolving products have been seen at various specialist tube equipment shows. De Lima&mdash;president, founder, product designer, and principal owner of Audiopax Sistemas Eletroacusticos&mdash;is an electrical engineer who started out designing equipment for a telecommunications company, but since 1995 he's devoted his talents to designing a wide range of audio products, including speakers as well as preamps and power amps.

Ah, Brazil...land of coffee, the samba, Pel&#233;, Rio-by-the-sea-o, and tube amplifiers. All right, so perhaps the amplifier connection isn't <I>quite</I> as well-established. But one Brazilian amplifier designer, Eduardo de Lima, has published articles in <I>Glass Audio</I> magazine that are viewed by many as groundbreaking, and his evolving products have been seen at various specialist tube equipment shows. De Lima&mdash;president, founder, product designer, and principal owner of Audiopax Sistemas Eletroacusticos&mdash;is an electrical engineer who started out designing equipment for a telecommunications company, but since 1995 he's devoted his talents to designing a wide range of audio products, including speakers as well as preamps and power amps.

Ah, Brazil...land of coffee, the samba, Pel&#233;, Rio-by-the-sea-o, and tube amplifiers. All right, so perhaps the amplifier connection isn't <I>quite</I> as well-established. But one Brazilian amplifier designer, Eduardo de Lima, has published articles in <I>Glass Audio</I> magazine that are viewed by many as groundbreaking, and his evolving products have been seen at various specialist tube equipment shows. De Lima&mdash;president, founder, product designer, and principal owner of Audiopax Sistemas Eletroacusticos&mdash;is an electrical engineer who started out designing equipment for a telecommunications company, but since 1995 he's devoted his talents to designing a wide range of audio products, including speakers as well as preamps and power amps.

Several readers have been asking "What's with all of the Musical Fidelity reviews in <I>Stereophile</I>?" Michael Fremer fearlessly wires the <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//digitalsourcereviews/838/">Musical Fidelity Tri-Vista SACD player</A> into his system, noting, "Overachievers tend to rankle people after a while."

Satellite radio services appear to be gaining sufficient market momentum to get them over the startup hump.

Audiophiles will get a rare opportunity to discover the similarities and differences between SACD reproduction and the real thing at this year's <A HREF="http://www.homeentertainment-expo.com">Home Entertainment 2003</A> show in San Francisco. <A HREF="http://www.diversityrecords.net">Diversity Records, Ltd.</A> has announced it will record two performances by its artists at HE2003 on June 7 (1&ndash;4:30pm).