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Some Rights Reserved

Wes Phillips Jul 12, 2004 First Published: Jul 12, 2004 0 comments

Running counter to the music industry's paranoia concerning the perils of modern digital technology, some musicians want you to share their music—within limits. GarageBand.comhttp://www.garageband.com">GarageBand.com;, which bills itself as "the world's largest musician community," announced June 7 that it now offers the Creative Commons Music Sharing License as an optional tag for all songs uploaded to its website.

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Stereophile Staff Jul 12, 2004 First Published: Jul 12, 2004 0 comments

Pay $350,000 for an amplifier?!?!! Michael Fremer takes a deep breath and plugs in the Wavac">http://www.stereophile.com/amplificationreviews/704wavac">Wavac SH-833 monoblock power amplifier in order to hear for himself what he might get if he traded in his house. "When tmh's Jim Ricketts asked me if I wanted to review this eight-box assemblage," says MF, "the first thing I did was laugh at the ludicrousness of the situation. Then I said, 'Why the hell not?'"

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Stereophile Staff Jul 05, 2004 First Published: Jul 05, 2004 0 comments

We begin with a January 1993 article from Robert Harley called The">http://www.stereophile.com/reference/193jitter">The Jitter Game. RH explains, "Clock jitter is a serious and underestimated source of sonic degradation in digital audio. Only recently has jitter begun to get the attention it deserves, both by high-end designers and audio academics."

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The Digital Den Emerges

Jon Iverson Jul 05, 2004 First Published: Jul 05, 2004 0 comments

Most audiophiles are generally loathe to think that they'd run their main audio systems from a computer. Last time we">http://cgi.stereophile.com/cgi-bin/showvote.cgi?346">we ran a poll, answers such as this one from David L. Wyatt, Jr. were typical: "Why in the world would I hook my computers to my stereo? If I want to make a compilation CD of the music I have purchased, I'll just burn one."

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Krell "Trade Up" Deal

Stereophile Staff Jul 05, 2004 First Published: Jul 05, 2004 0 comments

Would a piece of Krell electronics be the crowning jewel on your equipment rack?

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Audio Realism Breakthrough

Barry Willis Jul 05, 2004 First Published: Jul 05, 2004 0 comments

Audiophiles of every stripe know that achieving a realistic soundstage is maddeningly elusive—some would say impossible. When a system is right for some recordings, it's far off for others.

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Industry Roundup

Stereophile Staff Jul 05, 2004 First Published: Jul 05, 2004 0 comments

XM on a roll: Recent marketing efforts appear to be paying off for XM Satellite Radio. On July 2, the satellite radio startup announced that it had exceeded the 2.1-million subscriber mark during the second quarter. More than 418,000 new subscribers signed up during that period—over twice the number recruited in the same quarter last year. XM-compatible products are appearing at an ever-increasing number of retail outlets, leading some observers to believe that the company may have a fighting chance in the long run.

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NHT, DEQX, and PowerPhysics Collaborate

Kalman Rubinson Jun 28, 2004 First Published: Jun 28, 2004 0 comments

The NHT Xd DSP powered speaker demo was held at the Plaza Hotel in New York City last week and representatives from NHTwww.nhthifi.com">NHT; and its supporting cast, DEQXhttp://www.deqx.com/">DEQX; and PowerPhysicshttp://www.PowerPhysics.com/">PowerPhysics;, opened by explaining the philosophy behind the new product and the essential components they each contributed (also see previoushttp://www.stereophile.com/news/022304nht/index.html">previous;).

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Senate OKs PIRATE Act

Barry Willis Jun 28, 2004 First Published: Jun 28, 2004 0 comments

The US Senate has gotten serious about going after file sharers. On Friday, June 25, senators approved legislation that would allow the Justice Department to impose heavy civil penalties on people found to have shared and/or downloaded copyrighted material over the Internet.

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Stereophile Staff Jun 28, 2004 First Published: Jun 28, 2004 0 comments

Brian Damkroger listens long and hard to the Primare">http://www.stereophile.com/digitalsourcereviews/604primare">Primare D30.2 CD player noting, "Primare is reluctant to provide much technical detail about their designs, preferring to let their products do the talking." So after a little chatting, BD files his report.