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On August 20, Digital Theater Systems (DTS) and EMI Music announced a joint venture to create and distribute new surround-sound versions of music recordings from various EMI labels on a worldwide basis. The new titles will be created by a DTS production team and will bear a "DTS Signature Series" logo, the announcement stated. The series will include "some of the top artists from EMI's catalog, as well as future releases, and will be distributed globally by EMI."

DTS Entertainment vice president Jeff Skillen described the…

Next we have Robert Deutsch examining the Wavelength Audio Gemini monoblock power amplifier. Tube designers are a devoted lot, and as Deutsch reports, none is more devoted to the art than Wavelength's Gordon Rankin.

As a bonus this week, we add Kalman Rubinson's May 2001 Follow-up to his…

Lagged, that is, until last week. At the MP3 Summit99 conference in San Diego, ReQuest announced the AudioReQuest, a stereo component resembling a CD player that the company says can…

Now Intel is officially getting into the act. The company's next generation audio specification,…

Steve worked at Ortofon in operations and sales from 1983 to 1991, followed by five years at Krell as national sales manager, and finally at Wilson Audio for the last two years, until he was no longer able to work because of his illness.

Steve's last year was a strong contrast to his incredible energy, drive, and commitment, both in his personal life and toward the companies he worked for. Steve put pride in being physically in…

Quality audio embodies a wide dynamic range, a full frequency range, and accurate spatial relations, Stuart said. He cautioned that renegade format proposals threaten the potential for widespread implementation of "fully three-dimensional audio reproduction" ---something DVD-Audio makes possible for consumers for…

The premiere issue of…

The price? A mere $8 million, to be paid to various Napster creditors, will secure the company's assets. That's less than 10% of the $85 million Bertelsmann has pumped into Napster so far in the hope of turning it into a profit center offering licensed music. It…

A number of results of the study are in direct opposition to one of the most firmly entrenched assumptions held by audio retailers: that the field of consumer electronics is a "boy's…

So things were quiet at the Alexis Park, except for the last-minute scrambling of bag-toting journalists trying to see the demonstrations they missed. Shannon Dickson wandered by, looking dazed. "I should have trained for this," he said. "Walked miles every day with a cinder block in each hand." We know the feeling, having spent nearly a week trudging thither and yon, computer in one hand, bag o' literature in the other. Can we hire…