Stereophile's John Atkinson wrote in his October "As We See It," Selling the Benefits, that, if the record labels feel compelled to remove the "fair use" and "portability" benefits that music buyers currently enjoy, then those same customers may no longer feel compelled to buy new discs.
GartnerG2's new report…
Even those who believe that the music industry has legitimate justification for trying to develop some method of protecting its products have…
High-end audio equipment designer Ron Sutherland says he, too, found himself listening to his office PC often enough that he started to tinker with the audio possibilities. "When…
Raffle tickets are available at www.ElfSystems.org. You could win one of many great prizes, including a Runco CL-700 video projector ($10,000 retail), a Sonance InCeiling home theater speaker system ($3000 retail), and a Yamaha RX-Z1 receiver ($4500 retail). Other prizes include a Lutron Car Visor Package, a Faroudja NR-300…
The folks who control content (record labels, movie studios) continue to struggle with hardware and technology companies (Intel, Microsoft, Sony, Apple, etc) over which form of DRM must be included in next-generation products before content will be licensed for new services.
For now, consumers are…
That's not unreasonable in a neighborhood where new retail space rents for $55/square foot, but CBGB owner Hilly Krystal points out that the monthly nut, not to mention his $80,000 yearly liability insurance,…
The poll results in this uncontrolled sample indicated a clear preference for SACD. Consequently, Naxos€™ US April releases will be available in both formats and, at least for the foreseeable future, the company will duplicate its multichannel releases in SACD and DVD-A.
The first three SACD releases, Holst's The Planets (6.110004),…
The 8432ai CD-RW burner will be priced at about $350 retail, according to advance publicity. In addition to 8x write, 4x rewrite, and 32x read speeds, the veloCD offers a 24x digital audio extraction speed—meaning a three-minute track on an ordinary CD can be converted into a WAV file and burned onto a CD-R or CD-RW in less than 10 seconds. A 200MHz or faster Pentium microprocessor…
Next, we bring you the final installment of John Atkinson's comprehensive three-part "Measuring Loudspeakers" series, which first emerged as a paper presented at the 103rd Audio Engineering Society Convention, in New…
Apple sold 860,000 iPods in its third fiscal quarter ended June 30, more than twice the 336,000 it sold in the same period in 2003. During the same quarter, iPods outsold Mac computers by 24,000 units, helped by improved supplies of the new iPod Mini for the US market and by the introduction of the player into the global market. Approximately 6% of iPods sold were Hewlett-Packard branded devices. Counting business done by Apple's iTunes Music Store, music products now account for 27% of the company's revenue, almost five times last year's…