VPI Aries Scout turntable & JMW-9 tonearm

VPI Aries Scout turntable & JMW-9 tonearm

Oh, I talk a good game when it comes to the whole music-lover-<I>vs</I>-audiophile thing. But I admit that when it comes to record players, I'm just another hardware junkie. I love turntables and tonearms for more than the musical enjoyment they give me. Turntables and tonearms are my favorite toys.

Added to the Archives This Week

Added to the Archives This Week

Kalman Rubinson fires up the <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//amplificationreviews/769/">Sonic Frontiers Line 2 line preamplifier</A>, commenting, "I began this review grudgingly because I'd made a decision a while back to no longer pursue vacuum-tube electronics." But it's where KR ends up after months of listening that counts.

Convert, Mix, Burn

Convert, Mix, Burn

One area where DVD-Audio so far has an advantage over SACD is on the computer. To date there are no SACD-compatible personal computers on the consumer market, allowing the playback of a single-layer stereo or multichannel DSD format disc. One can, however, play a DVD-Audio disc on a PC using, for example, a <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/news/11454/">Sound Blaster Audigy 2 sound card</A>.

Surround Sound Radio

Surround Sound Radio

The Swedes have found a new way to kill time on those long, cold Scandinavian winter nights. On February 7, <A HREF="http://www.sr.se">Swedish Radio</A> (SR) announced that it had begun multichannel test transmissions from the Sirius 2 satellite, utilizing <A HREF="http://www.dtsonline.com">DTS</A>'s Coherent Acoustics compression/ decompression algorithm. The tests are intended to run until the end of April 2003.

No Smiths: Matters of Taste

No Smiths: Matters of Taste

"What? <I>What???</I> No Smiths?" asks reader Steven J. Wilder in this issue's "Letters" (p.9), regarding my interjection in the "<A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//features/710/index4.html">Honorable Mentions</A>" sidebar of last November's "40 Essential Albums." Hey, I think The Smiths suck&mdash;okay, Mr. Wilder? Morrissey's self-absorbed adolescent whining had no place on a list that included music from such grownups as Morrison, Mitchell, and Mingus. I'm not alone in this sentiment. Jon Iverson, www.stereophile.com's webmaster, almost stapled together the pages of <I>Mojo</I> magazine's April 2001 retrospective of Morrissey's and Marr's music so he could skip over it without running the risk of the veins on his forehead exploding.

Have you upgraded or somehow modified the power cords that connects your equipment to the AC outlet?

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The current Soapbox features a rant about power cords. Have you upgraded or somehow modified the power cords that connects your equipment to the AC outlet?

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