"Texas has lost part of its heritage," the San Antonio Express-News eulogized. The Texas native had a prolific career, recording a variety of genres for Mercury, Atlantic, and other labels. Sahm grew up in an ethnically mixed area of San Antonio, where he absorbed musical influences ranging from rock and blues to Cajun, country, and western. He was a…
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Doug Sahm, of the Grammy-winning Tex-Mex group the Texas Tornados, was found dead in a motel in Taos, New Mexico on Thursday, November 18. He appeared to have died of natural causes, possibly a heart attack, Taos police said. Sahm was 58.
The DAC performance envelope has been pushed further by Burr-Brown Corporation. The Tucson semiconductor company has just announced the commercial release of its new PCM-1704, an ultra-high-quality digital/analog converter chip boasting a 120dB signal/noise ratio. The new chip supersedes the company's PCM-1702, a DAC found in many high-end products and widely considered the state of the art.
The 1704---priced at $12.95 each in OEM quantities of 1000 or more---is a small 20-pin SOIC requiring a ±5V supply. It will accept input data words of 20- and 24-bit lengths at sampling frequencies…
New York City, one of the world's most diverse and eclectic cities, will play host to an outstanding group of musicians, who will perform live at the Home Entertainment 2001 Show, May 11-13, 2001 at the Hilton New York & Towers.
Show attendees will be treated to more than a dozen live performances by classical, jazz, and blues artists, including a special performance on Friday evening by David Johansen and a grand concert on Saturday evening, sponsored by Sony Electronics, featuring the multi-talented, Grammy-winning blues artist Keb' Mo'. Keb' will perform a variety of musical…
The escalating "anti-piracy" technology battle being fought by record labels has caught the attention and provoked the ire of consumers, who are finding their fair use rights quickly eroding away. But computer manufacturers are also feeling the effects of recent music-company attempts to restrict the activities of music fans, since many computers fail to play the altered discs.
It's no secret that music sales are plummeting month by month, for which the labels blame piracy. But what many CD buyers may not know is that, as a result, more and more of the discs they do purchase are being…
The prognosis was looking dim for yet another Internet music business, but last week the Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA), revealed that it has signed an agreement to be acquired by Vitaminic, a European digital platform for the promotion and distribution of music over the Internet. IUMA had recently run out of cash and says that the acquisition will allow it to relaunch all suspended services within the week.
IUMA was one of the first websites to begin delivery of music over the Internet, starting in 1993, and is one of the more prominent artist communities on the web. IUMA's…
Simaudio, Ltd. has proudly introduced its MOON limited edition (LE) series audio components, a "reference level" music system which consists of the MOON Nova LE CD player and MOON i-5 LE dual-mono integrated amplifier (75Wpc/8 ohms). The company will produce only 250 units of each model per year. They feature polished chrome accents, thick brushed-and-anodized silver faceplates, and custom two-meter Cardas power cords. The MOON Nova LE CD player is priced at $3500; the MOON i-5 integrated amplifier is $3200.
Simaudio has also launched its MOON limited edition "Balanced Differential Music…
The use of elliptical plastic ports in some loudspeakers has proven expensive for Harman International Industries.
On December 20, the Washington, DC–based audio conglomerate confirmed that a federal appeals court upheld a 2000 decision that found Harman in violation of patents held by Bose, Inc., of Framingham, MA. In 1998, Bose launched the patent-infringement suit against Harman's JBL Inc. and Infinity Systems over the use of the elliptical ports. Harman contested the suit and lost in September 2000, but decided to appeal the judgment. Products with the disputed feature were…
Several class-action lawsuits have been thrown against the music industry in the wake of its admission that it engaged in a price-fixing scheme known as Minimum Advertised Pricing, or MAP. The policy arose as a response to widespread CD price wars in the early 1990s that drove prices of some CDs below $10 each, and was intended to prevent mass-market merchandisers from offering CDs below cost as lures to pull customers into stores. The MAP policy was officially discontinued after the Federal Trade Commission reached a settlement with the industry in May of this year.
One of the more…
Bill Leebens and Ole Lund Christensen, organizers of the Audio Asylum Asian Tsunami Victim Support Auction, announced today that the fund-raising drive will end Monday, February 28.
"We've raised roughly $50,000 to this point," said Leebens, "and we hope to have a big finish. The audio community has been amazingly supportive, but we think it's time to wrap up our effort."
Industry donors included ACI, Argento Audio, Atma-Sphere, Audio Note, Audiovector, BAT, Bottlehead, Cain & Cain, Grado Labs, Gryphon Audio, HHG Stands, Kimber Kable, Kubala-Sosna, Locus Design, Luminous Audio,…
One of the themes of the 2005 CES, which we touched on in our first day's coverage, regarding Thiel's new version of its best-selling PowerPoint loudspeaker, is the increasing importance of the custom-install market to manufacturers best known for their two-channel products.
Nevada-based Bohlender-Graebener, for example, produce well-regarded "traditional" speakers—their Radia 520i speaker was reviewed by Larry Greenhill in the December Stereophile—but the company's big product introduction at the Show was a pair of on-wall custom-install speakers. The R-17i (held in the photo by BG…