RRadio Network conducted a survey last month which indicates that I am hardly unique among Internet users. The online radio organization prompted respondants: "Lately, I've been finding most new music on..." and found that 56% cited Internet radio, 25% said broadcast…
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When I submitted my Records 2 Die 4 selections this past winter, it seemed inevitable that I include a web radio station. Not only had I enjoyed listening to www.techwebsound.com more than anything else last year, but it had exposed me to more new music and led to more music purchases than any other source—by a wide margin.
The international uncertainties of 2003 have not been kind to the specialist hi-fi sector, and are probably a key factor in this week's shock announcement. In a statement that sounds depressingly valedictory, the press release (reproduced in full below) baldly states: "TAG McLaren Audio ceases development of new products and commences a full strategic review of its participation in the audio market," before signing off with, "TAG McLaren Audio would like to thank everybody for their kind support over the years."
Although those simple sentences do sound pessimistic, and are not going to…
The music industry has taken its war against piracy into a new realm.
Having launched attacks against commercial pirates and issued warnings to colleges and private companies about copyright violations on their computer networks, the industry has fulfilled its promise to pursue individuals believed to be responsible for large-scale distribution of music recordings over the Internet.
On April 3, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed copyright-infringement lawsuits against four college students, accusing them of using their colleges' computer networks to distribute…
The Alexis Park
Packing for Vegas, I assured my wife that it might be cold but it would be a dry cold. Unfortunately, this has absolutely no truth when it is raining cats and dogs, so I stumbled into Quartet Marketing's room chilled and soaked. I felt as though things couldn't get any worse—and I was right. Stirling Trayle pulled a long espresso out of his machinetta and settled me down in front of a pair of the $1150/pair Amphion Heliums Robert J. Reina reviewed in the January Stereophile. Go juice and music: life immediately got better.
Packing for Vegas, I assured my wife that it might be cold but it would be a dry cold. Unfortunately, this has absolutely no truth when it is raining cats and dogs, so I stumbled into Quartet Marketing's room chilled and soaked. I felt as though things couldn't get any worse—and I was right. Stirling Trayle pulled a long espresso out of his machinetta and settled me down in front of a pair of the $1150/pair Amphion Heliums Robert J. Reina reviewed in the January Stereophile. Go juice and music: life immediately got better.
The Heliums were driven by the $8500…
Chip Stern heads this week's list with an evaluation of the NAD C370 integrated amplifier from the January 2002 issue. With the units priced to sell, at $699, CS wants to know if the C370 can satisfy audiophiles as well as budget-conscious shoppers.
"At last—a CD player from a company that doesn't like CD," comments Sam Tellig as he digs into the Rega Planet CD player. Tellig reveals his opinion, not to mention deep, dark secrets about his childhood fears and CD drawers, while John Atkinson adds his own opinion and a full set of measurements.
More from Tellig: ST grapples with the…
More high-end audio company musical chairs: Howard Schilling, co-founder and Vice President of Sales and Marketing of Camelot Technology, will now also join Genesis Technologies as National Sales Manager after having "quietly" worked with them in the past.
While at the now apparently defunct Audio Alchemy company as a Regional and National Sales Manager, Howard had also previously worked with Mark L. Schifter, currently Executive Vice President at Genesis. Howard will continue to run Camelot Technology with his father Mel while helping Mark manage Genesis' US dealer base.
Genesis…
Ruth Laredo, a classical pianist whose style combined passionate ferocity with refined elegance, died May 25 of ovarian cancer, which she had battled for four years. Her last performance was May 6 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in one of her long-running performance/lecture sessions known as "Concertos with Commentary," a format that was so popular that she had begun to offer it in other venues around the world.
Ms. Laredo was born Ruth Meckler in 1937 and studied piano with her mother, Miriam Meckler. She made her orchestral debut at 11, playing with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra at…
It's mating season for entertainment-industry giants. Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group are in talks to develop a jointly operated subscription music service for the Internet, according to a report the two companies issued in the first week of May. The news followed by only a week an announcement of a possible merger between record clubs Columbia House and BMG Music Club.
Sony Music Entertainment is a unit of Sony Corp. of Japan; Universal Music Group is a unit of Seagram, Ltd. of Montreal. The two music companies are members of the "Big Five" conglomerates who control…
A drop-off in business these days seems to produce one inevitable consequence: a cutback in jobs.
On Wednesday, October 15, Universal Music Group (UMG) officially joined the downsizing trend with an announcement that it had cut 550 employees from its ranks this year, 200 of them in the US. Approximately 800 more will receive pink slips within the first quarter of 2004, according to reports in The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere.
The news is especially sobering. UMG is the world's largest music label and the only company among the music industry's "Big Five"…
A study released earlier this month by The Arbitron Company and Edison Media Research shows that Internet radio broadcasting continues to be a fast-growing medium. The survey of Arbitron diarykeepers also brings to light both the challenges and opportunities that the Internet presents to radio broadcasters, particularly in the much-talked-about arena of e-commerce.
An update to the Internet radio listening study that Arbitron and Edison first conducted back in July 1998, this latest edition of the Internet Listening Study examines how radio listeners use the medium, who is listening online…