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Reader Gus Kund wants to know if the power where you live is so bad that you've had to deal with it?

What do you hope to accomplish by being interested in audio reproduction?

Forget sound quality. Strictly on musical merits, what disc in your collection is your favorite?

Forget musical merit. What is the best-sounding disc you have in your collection?

In addition to being an audiophile, what else are you passionate about?

If you currently buy vinyl, what genre of music do you purchase most?

Canton Chrono Loudspeakers

Canton's Frank Göbl is a busy little beaver. He wondered what it would be like to put the components of Canton's successful Ergo line into new specially designed cabinets that could bring the prices down by 30%. "Cost efficiencies have enabled us to do this without sacrificing sound quality or beauty," said Canto USA president Paul Madsen.

All of the models feature Canton's ADT-25 aluminum-manganese–dome tweeters, with newly developed, flared, "transmission-style" faceplates. The midrange and bass drivers are all aluminum-cone units designed and constructed by Canton. One striking…

Parasound Model 2100

Parasound's Richard Schram was delighted to show off the San Francisco company's Model 2100 preamplifier. This $600 preamp is designed for the guy who has a multichannel system—possibly even an expensive one—who feels let down when he listens to his two-channel music.

"There are two reasons for this," explained Richard. "One is that most multichannel systems don't have a decent phono section, which this does, both MM and MC. Also, most bass management only works for multichannel inputs. The 2100 has analog bass management, which includes a variable (20–100Hz) low-pass filter."…

MIT Multipole Speaker Terminations

Similar to the MPC line level terminations are MIT's Multipole In-Wall termination systems, shown here by Kent Loughlin. The five-way binding posts fit into an ordinary on-wall quad box and come in three configurations: 11 pole, 15 pole, and 21 pole network. No soldering required.

The 11 pole AVt is $19/channel, the 15-pole Shotgun is $399/channel, and the 21-pole Magnum is $599/cannel.

MIT Gets Small

MIT's Bruce Brisson was determined to shrink his Multipole technology so that his patented networks did not requite bulky boxes near their cables' termination. Naturally, he thought surface-mount components were the way to go. That was until he began measuring them and discovered that SM components were variable and many didn't measure well.

So, measurement king that he is, Bruce developed a way to measure and match components. The result is his new MPC-Multipole connector, an RCA termination that has an MIT network designed to increase what he terms the cable's articulation…