Wes Phillips

The Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) commissioned a new 144-page report of radio and consumer survey results, based on data collected between February 17 and 22 by Pollara, Inc. in 1229 telephone interviews with respondents above the age of 13. The purpose of the study was to collect data that the CRIA could submit to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunication Commission's (CTRC) <A HREF="http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Hearings/2006/n2006-1.htm">Commercial Radio Review</A>. (For those interested in reading all 144 pages, click <A HREF="http://support.crtc.gc.ca/applicant/docs.aspx?pn_ph_no=2006-1&call_id=2…; and download "Appendix A.")

<I>Stereophile</I>'s senior contributing editor, Michael Fremer, and the magazine's editor at large, Art Dudley, are both giving presentations this spring at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. Michael appears on Tuesday, March 28, followed two weeks later, on April 11, by Art Dudley.

<I>Last week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF) <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/news/031306eff/">Fred von Lohmann</A> talked with us about how fair use created unexpected riches for Hollywood, created the iPod boom, and how dismantling it could prove disastrous for consumers. This week, we resume that conversation with a discussion about digital rights management (DRM) and why the computer industry is willing to support it, even though its consumers never asked for it.</I>

I was just about to wrap up my British Invasion Tour of affordable speakers when I got a call from Fearless Leader John Atkinson.

The W-8 ($10,200) is the first of Simaudio's Moon series to incorporate the new Evolution cosmetics and new circuitry. I loved its predecessor, the <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/solidpoweramps/167">Moon W-5</A>, which was one of the first power amplifiers I reviewed for <I>Stereophile</I> (March 1999, Vol.22 No.3). I also loved the "new and improved" W-5 when I wrote about in the May 2001 issue. In the September 2005 issue, Brian Damkroger praised Simaudio's monstrous <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/solidpoweramps/905sim">Moon Rock</A> monoblock, a contemporary of the Moon Evolution W-8 stereo amp.

His article on the first post-Katrina Mardis Gras is one great read. This is how I want to write when I grow up. If.

It turns out that <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/031606howto/">Dr. L.R., PhD</a>, does not have two first names. While her last name is spelled just like a very ordinary first name, it is pronounced in a way that makes it something entirely different.