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we watch as the stardust falls<br>
window by window<br>
and the wynn rises again

Way, way up on the Venetian Tower's 35th floor, I chatted for a bit with Ayre's Brent Hefley about the traffic at this year's show.

in-wall<br>
custom installation<br>
active speaker systems<br>
multi-channel processors

<i>Written on the Sunday morning plane from LaGuardia to Las Vegas.</i>

It's everything you need.
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For Martin Luther King day, here's John Coltrane's haunting "Alabama," which, according to Sascha Feinstein and Craig Werner, was based on the rhythms of the eulogy Martin Luther King delivered at the funeral for the four girls slain when their church was dynamited in Birmingham.
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Boy, this is great writing tempered by knowledge and experience.

We saw amps, speakers, music servers, iPod adaptors, and other products galore. Now that CES 2007 is over, what product most piqued your interest from the show this year? Why?

<B>Big Trends:</B><BR>
<I>Wireless Speakers</I>&mdash;except that they replace the speaker wire with an AC cord, so you come out kind of even.<BR>
<I>Music Servers</I>&mdash;of course it's the sound that matters, but the interface is what will make the difference. Sooloos leads the way.<BR>
<I>Apple iPhone</I>&mdash;it's wireless and an iPod. This means your remote can now be your music library too. This will sink in soon, and audiophile WiFi will take off.

On our last News Desk post of 2006, we reported that an anonymous hacker called Muslix64 had announced that he had <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/news/010107hacked/">cracked</A&gt; the Advanced Access Content System (AACS) digital rights management (DRM) scheme. Muslix64 said he'd release more details (and decryption software) on January 2. That software, called BackupHDDVD, is now available <A HREF="http://rapidshare.com/files/8318838/BackupHDDVD.zip.html%22">online</A&…; and the Internets have been all atwitter about it, with charges ranging from "bogus!" to "hallelujah!"