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BBC Offers "The Beethoven Experience"

Wes Phillips Jun 05, 2005 First Published: Jun 05, 2005

Starting on Sunday, June 4, and continuing through Friday, June 10, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) will broadcast all of Beethoven's">http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/beethovenexperience/pip/archive/">Beethoven… compositions as "The Beethoven Experience."

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Magnolia Offers To Rip You A New One

Wes Phillips Jun 05, 2005 First Published: Jun 05, 2005

Magnolia Audio, the upscale west-coast subsidiary of Best Buy, has signed an agreement with ReadyTo Play, a Palo Alto, CA–based digital music company, to offer in-store and point-of-sale promotion of RTP's CD ripping service to Magnolia's customers.

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Ruth Laredo: 1937–2005

Wes Phillips May 30, 2005 First Published: May 30, 2005

Ruth Laredo, a classical pianist whose style combined passionate ferocity with refined elegance, died May 25 of ovarian cancer, which she had battled for four years. Her last performance was May 6 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in one of her long-running performance/lecture sessions known as "Concertos with Commentary," a format that was so popular that she had begun to offer it in other venues around the world.

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HE 2005 Deemed a Success

Stereophile Staff May 30, 2005 First Published: May 30, 2005

The Home Entertainment 2005 Show, held April 28–May 1 at the New York Hilton in Manhattan, was a highly charged four-day event filled with live music, education, and the latest in convergence technologies combining the worlds of high-end audio, music, home theater, computing, and gaming.

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Music Soothes the Sutured Breast?

Wes Phillips May 30, 2005 First Published: May 30, 2005

According to a study published by anesthesiologists Chakib Ayoub, Laudi Rizk, Chadi Yaacoub, Dorothy Gaal, and Zeev Kain at the Yale School of Medicine, music reduces intraoperative sedative requirements in patients who received surgical procedures under anesthesia.

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Industry Update

Wes Phillips May 23, 2005 First Published: May 23, 2005

May the Web be with you: You'd think that forward-thinking tech-savvy companies such as those involved in high-end audio would be among the first to get how well the Internet works at spreading the word about their products. In nine cases out of ten, you'd be wrong. Companies introduce new products, upgrade old models, and venture into entirely new technologies without ever changing their websites.

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Stalking the Bobcat

Wes Phillips May 23, 2005 First Published: May 23, 2005

In my report on Red Rose Music's HE2005 debut of the Burwen">http://stereophile.com/news/050205red/">Burwen Bobcat, I complained about the lack of before and after demonstrations of the technology, as well as the difficulty of extracting information about what the product actually did. In the last week, I have received correspondence that sheds light on both cavils.

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Jimmy Martin, 1928-2005

Art Dudley May 23, 2005 First Published: May 23, 2005

Jimmy Martin, the self-styled "King of Bluegrass," died at a hospice near his home in Hermitage, TN on May 14. Martin had been diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2003, but the progress of the disease was slow, and the first of two hospice stays was cut short by an apparent recovery. Significantly, Martin never gave up his plans to perform at this year's Bill Monroe Bluegrass Festival in Bean Blossom, IN.

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Dorian Sold?

Jon Iverson May 23, 2005 First Published: May 23, 2005

Another chapter has closed in the saga of the Dorian Group, but the story seems far from over. As we reported">http://www.stereophile.com/news/040405dorian/index.html">reported last month, Dorian had filed for bankruptcy and unsuccessfully attempted to auction its assets. The creditors and former owners of Reference Recordings were also nipping at Dorian's heels to get their label back.

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T+A's Shiny New Toy

Len Porcano May 16, 2005 First Published: May 16, 2005

One of my fondest memories of CES 2005 was spending a spare (well, technically, stolen) hour in T+A's room, listening to the German company's $4500 SACD-1245 CD/SACD player through T+A's $8500 V-10 integrated amplifier and a pair of Amphion's $1150/pair Helium two-way loudspeakers. Accordingly, when Quartet Marketing's Stirling Trayle called me to announce that he was in New York with the first sample of T+A's new tubed $9500 D-10 CD/SACD player, I was eager to hear it.