If you work in the consumer electronics industry and would like to see your personal CE hero rewarded, the <A HREF="http://www.ce.org">Consumer Electronics Association</A> (CEA) would like to hear from you. The CEA announced last week that it is seeking nominations from its members, the press and other industry professionals for the 2002 class of inductees into the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame.

Last year's media darling may be this year's has-been. <A HREF="http://www.napster.com">Napster</A&gt;, the music file-sharing service that shook the music industry's foundations, remains shut down after US District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel ruled that it cannot resume operations until it can prove that no copyrighted songs can slip through its filter. In a closed session on Wednesday, July 11, Patel ordered Napster to stay offline until she authorizes it to do otherwise.

Music fans who use their computers to organize their CD or MP3 music libraries have found the CDDB music database, now owned and operated by <A HREF="http://www.gracenote.com">Gracenote</A&gt; (see <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/news/11046/">previous story</A>), to be an essential part of their audio world. If you use CDDB-enabled hardware or software, the artist, album title, genre, and track titles will automatically display when you put a CD or load an MP3 file into your computer or compliant player.

Several months back, <I>Stereophile</I> editor John Atkinson asked David Rich to investigate the technical merits of SACD. With <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//features/374/">Super Audio CD: The Rich Report</A>, DR discovers that there is both more and less than meets the ear to the new format, including why it is being promoted in the first place.

Nobody Wants a *" Drill Bit!

Nobody Wants a *" Drill Bit!

Nobody Wants a *" Drill Bit!

Electrostatic speakers are my passion. Why else have I put up with their high prices, unreliability, low power handling, tendency to arc, high-frequency beaming, limited bass response, and widely fluctuating impedances?

Electrostatic speakers are my passion. Why else have I put up with their high prices, unreliability, low power handling, tendency to arc, high-frequency beaming, limited bass response, and widely fluctuating impedances?

Electrostatic speakers are my passion. Why else have I put up with their high prices, unreliability, low power handling, tendency to arc, high-frequency beaming, limited bass response, and widely fluctuating impedances?