LATEST ADDITIONS

On December 19, the Concord Music Group announced its acquisition of Telarc International Corporation, which includes the venerable audiophile label Telarc and the instrumental jazz and world music label Heads Up. Concord already owned many formerly independent labels such as Peak, Playboy Jazz, Stretch, and Concord Picante; in 2004, it acquired Fantasy Records, which encompassed Milestone, Pablo, Prestige/New Jazz, Riverside/Jazzland, Stax/Volt/Enterprise, Specialty, Takoma, and others.

In the December 2005 issue of the UK magazine <I>Hi-Fi Plus</I>, editor Roy Gregory announces that Absolute Multimedia, Inc., publisher of <I>The Absolute Sound</I> and <I>The Perfect Vision</I> magazines, has purchased the British audio journal.

Here in the office, on Christmas Eve Eve, it's just me and the crickets. Wes Phillips, <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/wesphillips/">man of many links</a>, tells me that <a href="http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,9830,1648623,00.htm… are known to shed a leg if they get caught in a sticky situation, but only if they have had sex first</a>.

"I think the lead channel needs more bite!"

Well, actually they said E differs from mc2 by at most 0.0000004, which is "consistent with equality."

My wife has suspected this for years.

They're different&mdash;physically and functionally.