Closing its fiscal year June 30 $150 million in the hole, the music giant has been plagued by infighting among top executives, the death of one, departures by others, and recently, an announcement that hundreds of jobs could be slashed in an effort to regain profitability. A downturn in the global music business and various one-time expenses (some of them related to Internet music ventures) contributed to the loss, according to several reports.
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Clear Channel announced the divestiture of the stations the second week…
Marantz took advantage of this year's gathering in Indianapolis to unveil a new line of universal disc players capable of full multichannel output from both DVD-Audio discs and Super Audio CDs. Due to arrive at dealers in October, the company's new top-of-the line disc spinner is the DV-9500, an approximately $2100 machine said to be the company's first with "upscaling HDMI output and full DVD-Audio/SACD bass management."
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The new card, dubbed by the two companies the "official currency of playtime," was developed to combine spending and entertainment by offering everything from movie tickets at Sony theaters and music CDs, to DVD players and…
Kalman Rubinson checks in with "Music in the Round #7," investigating the ins and outs of the Trinaural processor. KR also reveals his latest picks for worthy surround recordings.
Next, we have a Jonathan Scull interview from October 1998: Jack…
In the past decade, the data density for magnetic hard disk drives has increased at a rapid pace, first doubling approximately every 18 months and then, since 1997, doubling on average once a year (which is much faster than the vaunted Moore's Law…
With Eiji Oue and the Minnesota Orchestra, at sessions in mid-February, RR will record music by Leonard Bernstein (Oue was…
Flexygy 8, like all other River Cables, "is individually tested and certified and is fully covered by a 30-day home trial guarantee…
Quarterly reports from most retail chains bear out this observation. In late December, Canton, MA–based Tweeter Home Entertainment Group reduced projections for its first fiscal quarter ending December 31. For the first three weeks of the month, comparable stores sales were down 15%, and were off 10% for the quarter to date as of December 21. Digital…
Of all of the discs we sell online, the "Test" CDs are easily the most popular. Released back in May of 1992, Stereophile's Test CD 2 became an instant success and continues to help thousands of audiophiles set up and tweak their systems. John Atkinson, Corey Greenberg, and Robert Harley supply detailed background information on the…