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Québec Audio & Video, Canada's premier home entertainment magazine, is hosting its fourth annual contest held in conjunction with the Home">http://www.he2004.com">Home Entertainment 2004 Show, scheduled to take place May 20–23, 2004 in New York City.

New Zealand's Perreaux">http://www.perreaux.com">Perreaux Industries began creating audio products 30 years ago, starting with the GS 2002 integrated transistor amplifier in 1974, and landed in the US in 1980 with the PMF 2150 amplifier. Dozenshttp://www.perreaux.com/backcat.php">Dozens; of new audio products have been developed since then, many of them groundbreaking, and the latest designs are again available in the American market.

The iPod is making sweet music for Apple Computer, Inc.

In mid-April, Texas Instruments and Intel announced developments likely to improve the experience for many music fans in the near future. TI announced the industry's highest performance four-channel audio digital–analog converter (DAC), and Intel released the final v1.0 specification for "Intel High Definition Audio."

Our first of three loudspeaker reviews from the April 2004 issue finds Michael Fremer listening to the Aerial">http://www.stereophile.com/loudspeakerreviews/404aerial">Aerial Model 20T loudspeaker. MF explains, "Loudspeaker design is an art and a science. Anyone who tells you it's only one or the other is probably building or listening to some awful-sounding speakers." Fremer ponders whether Aerial has managed to achieve that perfect balance.

Music buyer beware: SunnCommhttp://www.sunncomm.com">SunnComm; announced last week the dubious milestone that it had shipped over one million restricted MediaMax audio CDs in March and expects to beat those numbers in April. The MediaMax M4 suite of "Digital Content Enhancement" technologies is built using the Microsoft Windows Media 9 Series platform.

Will the decline ever end for the music business?