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Michael Fremer wraps his ears around the Westlake">http://www.stereophile.com//loudspeakerreviews/449/">Westlake Audio Lc5.75F loudspeaker in an effort to figure out "what's a pro audio company doing at CES?" Fremer discovers why a brand that, until recently, was rarely heard outside of recording studios is now selling 70% of its products to consumers.

Jonathan Scull takes a gander at the dCS">http://www.stereophile.com//digitalsourcereviews/454/">dCS Purcell D/D converter, and tries to make sonic sense out of the merits of upsampling. Scull writes, "So while the true differences between upsampling and oversampling remain murky, my pleasant mission is to report on the sound of the Purcell and compare it to the latest version of the pro-audio version, the 972."

In his review of the Soliloquy">http://www.stereophile.com//loudspeakerreviews/459/">Soliloquy 5.3 loudspeaker, Kalman Rubinson says that when he heard a pair, his first thoughts were, "Gotta get my hands on these!" After careful listening, did the speaker live up to Rubinson's first impressions? KR tells the whole story.

As Larry Greenhill reports in his review of the Sony">http://www.stereophile.com//digitalsourcereviews/469/">Sony SCD-C555ES SACD changer, "I didn't know what to expect from multichannel SACD. Would a multichannel music-only disc give me high-energy dramatics? Would there be any room for meditative, closed-eyed, total progressive muscular relaxation?" As Greenhill says, "The best was yet to come."

As Jonathan Scull reports in his review of the Class&#233">http://www.stereophile.com//digitalsourcereviews/474/">Classé Omega Super Audio CD player, "Classé has guts. These are uncertain times, but here they are with an audiophile classic: an expensive two-channel Super Audio CD player." Read how one of the first SACD machines from a high-end audio company stacks up.

Kalman Rubinson admits to having plenty of Sony trinkets, including clocks, VCRs, and TVs. But until the Sony">http://www.stereophile.com//digitalsourcereviews/491/">Sony SCD-XA777ES multichannel SACD/CD player, he's always preferred other brands when it came to audio. Rubinson reveals whether this latest expression of SACD engineering from Sony has changed his perception of the company as a serious audiophile contender.

Thousands upon thousands of new discs are released each year, yet only a select few made it to the top of the heap for Records">http://www.stereophile.com//records2die4/496/">Records to Die For, 2001, number 11 of the annual rite of passage for the Stereophile staff. Find out what music made the cut and why.