Why both a CD and a DVD? Adding the CD allows consumers to take the music with them to play in a car or rip to a personal digital player; obviously the company is expecting owners of Naim's HDX hard disc players, NaimNet Music Servers, or universal disc players to be attracted to the high-rez disc.
The Naim discs were both recorded…
"It has come to our attention that PartsconneXion.com of Canada has been advertising counterfeit Oyaide plugs as being genuine Oyaide plugs on their website. . . . Further they are advertising these counterfeit items at prices that match the price of genuine Oyaide parts. It has also come to our attention that they have begun shipping these products to unsuspecting customers…
The albums can be purchased from www.Arkivmusic.com, but to celebrate the holiday season, Stereophile is offering its readers a free download from the second Christmas string quartet CD (JMR 18). This CD features Delmoni and Nina Bodnar performing the gorgeous "Ave Maria," which Charles Gounod composed using on the celebrated…
All key US Naim employees will become ASL employees and Chris Koster and Chris West continue to handle sales and general support issues. Dave Dever and Pat Flanagan will still administer technical support and service and will…
DG's breakthrough comes as a special surprise. One of the first classical labels to offer 320kbps, DRM-free downloads, DG has now posted its first 50 CD-quality FLAC albums for downloading here.
First on the list is violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter's new, demonstration-quality CD of concertos by J.S. Bach and Sofia Gubaidulina. While the Bach will not replace other versions in the catalog, Mutter's take on Gubaidulina's In tempus praesens, written…
For one thing, CES's exhibits of what it now calls "high-performance audio" (HPA) have grown. In 2007, when CES first moved HPA exhibitors out of the Alexis Park Hotel and into the Sands/Venetian Convention Center and Hotel…
Unfortunately, Johnson was unreachable, home in bed with a wicked cold. Concerned that the counterfeit AC devices might harm purchasers, Cohen then posted a strong…
Al's contributions to the audiophile community were vast. He and fellow Colorado Audio Society member Ron Wellborne founded RMAF in 2004 as a labor of love. Intentionally limiting profit and charging below market rates in order to encourage participation, Al, Ron, Marjorie, Colorado Audio Society founder Art Tedeschi, and other members of the organization worked side by side to create an annual festival…
The good news for music lovers is that a major part of the famed Grammy-winning recording team responsible for the "Telarc Sound" over the last 20 years has…
Michael Fremer comes walking down the long, vinyl-lined hall that leads to his cluttered listening room, a tall stack of compact discs balanced awkwardly in his arms. He looks up to find that we are there, too, waiting for him. Caught by surprise, he…