According to Tim Harris, Managing Director of IAG UK, "The Mission product portfolio is exceptionally strong and selling well. However, the company has suffered severe, and well-documented, financing issues during the past 12 months. This new deal puts Mission on a very strong financial footing, allowing its many successful product…
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In a brief statement, The International Audio Group (IAG) announced on June 28 that it has purchased the Mission business from the Administrators of Symphonix. In a separate transaction, IAG reports that it has also purchased the Mission brandname from NXT.
Melville, NY–based manufacturer Joseph Audio announced September 1 that the company was "pleased to accept the 'Best Sound at Show' award as determined by the votes of attendees" at the Home Entertainment 2001 event held in May at the NY Hilton. "We're deeply grateful that so many at the show felt that our RM33si Signature at $7500/pair was worthy of such an honor," said company president Jeff Joseph.
Joseph Audio won 8.2% of the vote, with second place picking up 5.4%. That award went to a system consisting of components from Burmester Audiosysteme, Nordost, Vacuum Tube Logic, Wisdom…
Last week, Burr-Brown Corporation announced the PCM1737, a 24-bit, 192kHz-sampling delta-sigma digital-to-analog converter (DAC) that the company says is designed for consumer audio applications. According to a press release, Burr-Brown states that "the PCM1737's excellent price and performance is specifically targeted toward consumer audio applications such as DVD/CD players, A/V receivers, HDTV systems, and car audio applications."
Mike Centorino, audio product marketing manager at Burr-Brown, explains that "the PCM1737 is our first 192kHz delta-sigma audio DAC. The price/performance of…
Time does fly when you're having fun, and it's hard to believe that the Stereophile website is two years old—so it's time for a party and some presents!
First we unwrap Stereophile's 1999 Products of the Year. Not only is this an important resource for readers, but Stereophile editor John Atkinson decided to post this oft-requested article on our online archives in the same month the original appears in the paper edition.
And while we're releasing articles from the current issue, next is this month's "As We See It": "Dynamics & Dynamic Range." JA gets a little grumpy when he…
These are perilous times for the independent audio dealer. With customers being siphoned off by large megastores and, eventually, the Internet, success will favor the dealer with a few clever tricks up his or her sleeve. One of those tricks for dealers in Dallas, Texas is a new group formed by Stephen Slaughter of The Audio Consortium.
Slaughter describes the Lone Star group, called the Dallas Audio Association, as "a new concept in cooperation within the high-end audio industry. We will be providing public education on various audio topics, including how to listen, how to set up systems…
Is there really a benefit to those pointy feet you have? Jonathan Scull has been surfing the Internet for cone-footer tweaks and theories and reveals his latest haul of hot finds in Fine Tunes #32.
NHT released its flagship model 3.3 several years back to great acclaim. But at $4000/pair, the price and size of the speaker were a bit much for many audiophiles. As Tom Norton notes: "Enter the NHT 2.9 loudspeaker. It resembles the 3.3 to a remarkable degree, offers much of what the larger loudspeaker does, comes in a more manageable size, and costs a lot less money." Norton works hard to…
The musical road less traveled leads to places like New York's Downtown Music Gallery. If your taste in music lies somewhere outside the marketing-demographic bell curve, DTMG has tunes for you: live tunes, recorded tunes, strange tunes, bargain tunes. There's something for almost everyone at recently launched www.dtmgallery.com---from Classical to Klezmer to Progressive Jazz to World Music to Absolutely Uncategorizable.
Besides announcements of DTMG-sponsored live performances by an eclectic assortment of musicians, the site lists the catalogs of the Avant, Tzadik, DIW, Canterbury, and…
The June issue of Stereophile, which hits newsstands this week, spills some ink on the 30th-anniversary reissue of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon as a two-layer Super Audio CD (Capitol CDP 582136 2). Jon Iverson nominated the disc as June's "Recording of the Month," while I mentioned it in my "As We See It" column. This "fully loaded" SACD includes both multichannel and two-channel mixes encoded with the DSD system on a high-rez SACD layer and a two-channel "Red Book" transfer (16-bit word length, 44.1kHz sampling) on its CD layer.
Jon wrote at length about the audible differences…
Apple Computer is riding a wave that shows no sign of breaking.
On March 6, the Cupertino, CA–based computer pioneer celebrated its highest stock price in over three years, closing at $26.75/share on the Nasdaq exchange, an increase of 25% since January 1, buoyed by the popularity of Apple's iPod portable music player and the company's iTunes downloadable music service, and by an unconfirmed rumor of a takeover bid by Sony Corporation.
In February, Apple reported that it had received 100,000 preorders for the new iPod mini. The $250 player went on sale February 20, but some customers…
John Atkinson finishes his survey of pricey floor-standing speakers with a review of the Dynaudio Confidence C4 loudspeaker. JA notes that, "despite its $16,000/pair price, the C4 has much in common with its cost-no-object cousins in Dynaudio's Evidence line."
Next, Robert J. Reina tries the Polk Audio LSi7 loudspeaker, which "just scrapes the $1000/pair ceiling of my self-imposed 'affordable speaker' price bracket." As Reina discovers, "Life is full of trade-offs, especially among affordable speaker designs."
Analog fanatic that he is, Michael Fremer is always searching for the…