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As we reported previously, on Saturday, November 11, retailer Advanced Audio will celebrate its 20th anniversary with "an open format seminar" at the Sheraton Tacoma Hotel (1320 Broadway Plaza, Tacoma, WA 98402. Tel: (253) 572-3200). Seminar participants will include Richard Vandersteen of Vandersteen Audio; Steve Silberman, Ayre Acoustics's national sales manager; Joe Harley, renowned recording producer and AudioQuest vice-president; Shane Buettner, technical editor of Ultimate AV; and Wes Phillips, a senior editor at Stereophile.
On Friday, November 3, The Register published an interview with Peter Jenner, formerly manager of Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett, T. Rex, The Clash, Ian Drury, and Disposable Heroes, as well as Billy Bragg's current manager. The interview was a challenging (and profane) music insider's rant on a variety of subjects ranging from how the dollar download model killed the record store to proposals for a blanket, DRM-free digital music license that would permit consumers to use the music they purchase however they wish.
It's a good read and I encourage you to click on the link and peruse it.
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One of the best-sounding recordings I've heard in the last few years is Handel's Messiah performed by Jeffrey Thomas and the American Bach Soloists (Delos DE-3360 CD). The sound is spectacularly natural, with realistic dynamics and a wonderful sense of space. If you haven't heard it, I recommend it highly—but Millennia Music & Media Systems is now offering you a chance to experience the recording on a completely different level.
Initiating an ongoing series of discussions on the complexities of orchestral recording, it has posted a tutorial that offers comparisons of seven microphone…
On November 7, Dr. Mead C. Killion, founder and president of Etymotic Research, invited Stereophile to experience the company's newest in-the-ear high-fidelity earphone, the ety-8. What was so special about these half-ounce 'phones? No wires—the ety-8's are the industry's first and only in-the-ear, high-accuracy, noise-exclusion earphones.
The ety-8s employ a new, low-power, full-bandwidth Broadcom BCM-2037 chipset, which, Killion said, "represents a major advance in Bluetooth technology." Its small size and low current drain enabled Etymotic to shrink the size of the stereo…
MusicGiants, which bills itself as "the leader in HD music downloads," announced November 7 an agreement with Inteset, which manufacturers high-end media servers and advanced extender systems.
Jeff Lloyd, Inteset's CEO, said, "Working with MusicGiants is a good match for Inteset. Our dealers will appreciate the opportunity to provide this convenience to their customers."
What convenience? you may be asking. In an exclusive interview with Stereophile, Scott Bahneman, MusicGiants' CEO, explained: "What we've done with Inteset and our other partners is provide them a way to put our…
The 2007 edition of the Stereophile Buyer's Guide is now available! Absolutely bursting with technical specifications for more than 5000 audio components, the Buyer's Guide will help make your music sound better than ever. Honest.
Looking for a $600 tonearm with cueing, antiskating adjustment, adjustable VTA, and a replaceable arm cable? We've got it. Looking for a two-channel universal player that also plays MP3s and won't cost you your house? We've got it. In fact, we've got everything you need in order to make an intelligent purchasing decision.
Beyond all that good stuff, our…
What is the best environment in which to demonstrate and enjoy high-quality audio gear? According to Richard Rives Bird, founder and president of Rives Audio, the answer is simple: an acoustically engineered room.
Stereophile recently sent me to the Chicago 'burbs to check out the two no-holds-barred, acoustically engineered listening rooms of Ultimate Audio Video. Both rooms have been designed to Rives Audio's highest standard, which Bird calls Level 3. Located in the basements of private homes in Deerfield and nearby Northbrook, the rooms represent the realization of dreams…
There Lies the Home, the sixth CD of Minnesotan male-voice choir Cantus recorded by Stereophile editor John Atkinson, is released this week.
Recorded straight to hard disk at 88.2kHz with 24-bit resolution, There Lies the Home features a set of works about the sea, including Peter (P.D.Q. Bach) Schickele's whimsical "Jonah's Song," with its piratical rolled rrrrs, an arrangement for unaccompanied voices of Sting's "Valparaiso," from his 1996 Mercury Falling CD, and an arrangement for solo baritone, cello, and guitar of Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."
The…
Dedicated audiophile and all-around nice chap Bill Leebens sent along an email a few days ago, noting:
"Stereophile friends:
"Stereophile friends:
"I appreciated the support you all gave the Audio Asylum/Audiogon Tsunami auction. I'd like to bring another worthwhile cause to your attention.
"Terry Cain, of Cain & Cain loudspeakers and all-around good guy, is seriously ill with ALS—Lou Gehrig's disease.
"Terry's cousin Kathy Gee has set up a special account for Terry's continuing medical care, and Srajan Ebaen of 6Moons.com has been kind enough to put up a page where individuals,…
Tweeter Home Entertainment Group, Inc., the national electronics retail chain, has teamed with Sonos, Inc., developer of wireless multiroom music systems for the digital home, to bring "the digital home experience directly to the retail floor." The retailer will run broadband Internet connections to Sonos Digital Music System point-of-sale displays at over 150 Tweeter locations, to give music lovers live demonstrations of music server systems.
Sonos' Thomas Meyer was enthusiastic about getting the Sonos system into customers' hands. "Our product is easy to use, so why not meet people…