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RIAA Opposes NY Artists' Bill

Barry Willis Nov 10, 2002 First Published: Nov 10, 2002 0 comments

The Recording">http://www.riaa.com">Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has gone on record opposing the Artistic">http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A11926">Artistic Freedom Act, introduced for consideration by the New York State Assembly on October 28 by Speaker Sheldon Silver. The bill would free artists from long-term contracts—now sometimes as long as 25 years—and would give them "free agency" status.

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DVD-Audio 411

Jon Iverson Nov 03, 2002 First Published: Nov 03, 2002 0 comments

One of the great things about the DVD-Audio format is the sheer flexibility built into the standard: two-channel or multichannel (mixed for four, five, or six speakers), multiple resolutions, multiple encode/decode choices (MLP, Dolby Digital, DTS, PCM), and an assortment of special features, including video.

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Engineer/Producer Tom Dowd Dies

Barry Willis Nov 03, 2002 First Published: Nov 03, 2002 0 comments

Tom Dowd, a recording engineer and producer who created some of the greatest pop, jazz, and rock recordings of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, and who ushered in the era of multi-track tape recording and stereo playback, died Sunday, October 27 of emphysema at an assisted living center in Aventura, Florida, near Miami. He was 77.

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Record Labels Beware

Jon Iverson Nov 03, 2002 First Published: Nov 03, 2002 0 comments

One would think the last thing the music industry needs right now is to further alienate its customers who are still buying discs. But that is just what the record labels are doing by secretly experimenting with technology that restricts how discs are used, says a new report.

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Numbers Up for Japanese Electronics Firms

Barry Willis Nov 03, 2002 First Published: Nov 03, 2002 0 comments

The first half of the fiscal year has been generally kind to many Japanese electronics manufacturers, most of whom released financial reports at the end of October.

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Added to the Archives This Week

Stereophile Staff Nov 03, 2002 First Published: Nov 03, 2002 0 comments

Brian Damkroger has a wonderful moment or two as he auditions the VAC">http://www.stereophile.com//amplificationreviews/697/">VAC Renaissance Signature Mk.II preamplifier. As BD explains, the right musical situation can trigger those long-lost memories . . . .

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Kathy Gornik to Chair CEA Board

Barry Willis Oct 27, 2002 First Published: Oct 27, 2002 0 comments

During the week of October 14, Thiel">http://www.thielaudio.com">Thiel Audio Products president Kathy Gornik completed an unprecedented triple play.

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Stereophile Staff Oct 27, 2002 First Published: Oct 27, 2002 0 comments

"We are now well past the era in which every review of digital playback equipment had to begin with an apology for the medium," writes Thomas J. Norton. As a case in point, TJN takes the Mark">http://www.stereophile.com//digitalsourcereviews/692/">Mark Levinson No.37 CD transport & No.36S D/A converter out for a couple of spins.

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Another Reprieve for Small Webcasters?

Barry Willis Oct 27, 2002 First Published: Oct 27, 2002 0 comments

Small webcasters have won another reprieve from royalty payments.

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High-Rez Releases

Jon Iverson Oct 27, 2002 First Published: Oct 27, 2002 0 comments

Recent news from Universal Music Group should bode well for the SACD format. It's not exactly a flood, but the world's largest music company finally made good on the promisehttp://www.stereophile.com/news/11238/">promise; it made at the 2002 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and announced last week its first Super Audio CD (SACD) titles to be released in the United States.