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Ray Samuels Audio, long well-regarded for its tube-based home audio components, is developing a reputation for its portable designs, too. After reviewing the <A HREF="http://stereophile.com/headphones/905ray/">SR-71</A&gt;, I figured Samuels couldn't make things any smaller.

I stood in my kitchen, looking around, dumbly: “What am I forgetting?”

Efforts to restrict the ways consumers use music they have purchased continue unabated. <A HREF="http://www.sunncomm.com">SunnComm</A&gt; (along with its sales and marketing arm <A HREF="http://www.mediamaxtechnology.com">MediaMax</A&gt;) has announced that its "newest patent-pending passive technology makes it even more difficult to bypass or 'hack' the copy protection structure contained on the MediaMax CDs."

The Bozak Concert Grand is a loudspeaker dreams are made of. I was just a boy, but I remember to this day the impressive pictures of them in <I>Audio</I> magazine. I thought they must be the best loudspeakers ever made because they were so <I>big</I>&mdash;they would let more of the music come out. I suspect the Bozaks beckoned to me in some primal way, just as those giant construction trucks do&mdash;the ones that have tires bigger than a man.

Although you're reading this in October, I had to write it in the middle of summer's dog days&mdash;what Washington journalists used to call "the silly season," not so much because there's anything inherently funny about August, but because, in pre-AC DC, all the legislators went home then to escape the heat and humidity, leaving the press corps with little to write about other than "man bites dog" stories.

Corey Greenberg <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/asweseeit/792awsi&quot; TARGET=NEW>wrote in 1992</A>, "It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Schwing." How important is sound to you when you purchase a recording ?

While nobody can replace your own ears for making an audio decision, folks do find certain reviewers helpful. Who is your favorite audio reviewer and why?