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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…
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."
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"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.
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Sonos' Thomas Meyer was enthusiastic about getting the Sonos system into customers' hands. "Our product is easy to use, so why not meet people…
But precious few CDs, LPs, or DVDs will be available for purchase at the Venetian—virtually all vendors of audiophile recordings are either boycotting the hotel entirely, or have committed to display…
The exemptions are:
1) Educational libraries can make copies of audiovisual works "when circumvention is…
"Download the new Burwen Bobcat RE (recording version) at the new Burwen Bobcat website and store for $199.95 at www.burwenbobcat.com.
"Burwen Bobcat RE plugs into the Windows Media Player, taking advantage of its music and video library. It enhances sound when listening, ripping or burning CDs; and at high speed, it converts files to MP3s that give your iPod or musical cell phone sound comparable with a $100,000 hi-fi system. This new version works with your computer sound…
I was musing about this, as well as other matters, a few weeks ago at a get-together of former Tower classical employees we'd informally dubbed the "Tower…
On the first day of the show, I participated in a working lunch and free-wheeling Q&A with show founder Matthew Zhou, several high-end mainland manufacturers, and members of the Chinese…