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Heading back to the West Coast after three Shows back East and in the MidWest, the Home Entertainment Show will fire up again in San Francisco on June 6. Will you be there?

Show attendees at Home Entertainment 2003, the hi-fi and home-theater event of the year, will be treated to nearly a dozen educational seminars to help guide and inform them about what and how to buy the new and sometimes confusing home audio/video and home theater products available today.

You've got to give the audiophiles who post at the <A HREF="http://www.AudioAsylum.com">Audio Asylum</A> online forum credit. Not only is AA one of the more informative and constructive audiophile communities, some of its members provide the audio industry much-needed feedback on how it's doing&mdash;for better or worse.

In 1997, Martin Colloms reviewed the <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//amplificationreviews/829/">Krell Full Power Balanced 600 power amplifier</A>, wondering "<I>Can</I> a 600Wpc amplifier be relevant to domestic high fidelity?"

For the third year in a row, <I>Quebec Audio-Video Magazine</I> has offered its readers a chance to win an all-expense-paid trip for two to the Home Entertainment Show&mdash;or a trip to the beautiful Charlevoix region of the province of Quebec, Canada, for a musical experience at Le Domaine Forget concert hall.

Students are often described as people with more time than money. For four accused by the recording industry of being "nodes" for file sharing, the lack of money will almost certainly extend well beyond graduation day.

Tuesday, May 6, 2003 could be a turning point in the contentious history of recording artists and record labels. On that day, hundreds of American musicians will converge on Albany, NY in support of the Artistic Freedom Act of 2003. If passed, the bill would give artists unprecedented freedom in negotiating and terminating recording contracts.

Answering last week's "Vote," many of you indicated that you buy new in a store, but buy used on-line. If that's true of you, where do you like to shop for used audio gear on the Internet?

Federal judges have issued somewhat conflicting rulings in the ongoing legal battle over illegitimate file sharing. As the situation stands at the end of April, individuals may be held responsible for copyright violation, but the services they use in the process may not.

Consolidation is a fact of modern corporate life, but the consumer electronics industry has generally bucked this trend and remained relatively fragmented. Notable exceptions include Harman International and Rockford Corporation (which recently acquired loudspeaker manufacturer NHT)&mdash;now it's time to add <A HREF="http://www.dm-holdings.com">D&M Holdings</A> to that sparse list.