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CEA on RIAA vs Verizon

Barry Willis Feb 09, 2003 First Published: Feb 09, 2003

The Consumer">http://www.ce.org">Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has responded to an ongoing copyright infringement suithttp://www.stereophile.com/news/11562/">suit; being pursued in a US District Court by the music industry against Verizon Communications, Inc.

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Surround Sound Radio

Jon Iverson Feb 09, 2003 First Published: Feb 09, 2003

The Swedes have found a new way to kill time on those long, cold Scandinavian winter nights. On February 7, Swedish">http://www.sr.se">Swedish Radio (SR) announced that it had begun multichannel test transmissions from the Sirius 2 satellite, utilizing DTS's">http://www.dtsonline.com">DTS's Coherent Acoustics compression/ decompression algorithm. The tests are intended to run until the end of April 2003.

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Cutbacks at Circuit City

Barry Willis Feb 09, 2003 First Published: Feb 09, 2003

The continuing recession is hitting Circuit">http://www.circuitcity.com">Circuit City hard.

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Incubus Sues Sony Music

Barry Willis Feb 09, 2003 First Published: Feb 09, 2003

Incubus is following the Dixie Chicks' lead.

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Convert, Mix, Burn

Jon Iverson Feb 09, 2003 First Published: Feb 09, 2003

One area where DVD-Audio so far has an advantage over SACD is on the computer. To date there are no SACD-compatible personal computers on the consumer market, allowing the playback of a single-layer stereo or multichannel DSD format disc. One can, however, play a DVD-Audio disc on a PC using, for example, a Sound">http://www.stereophile.com/news/11454/">Sound Blaster Audigy 2 sound card.

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Added to the Archives This Week

Stereophile Staff Feb 09, 2003 First Published: Feb 09, 2003

Kalman Rubinson fires up the Sonic">http://www.stereophile.com//amplificationreviews/769/">Sonic Frontiers Line 2 line preamplifier, commenting, "I began this review grudgingly because I'd made a decision a while back to no longer pursue vacuum-tube electronics." But it's where KR ends up after months of listening that counts.

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"Earworms" Dissected

Barry Willis Feb 02, 2003 First Published: Feb 02, 2003

In Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, the evil overlord's favorite torture was to introduce carnivorous worms into the ear canals of his prisoners. No one who saw the film can forget the agony of the victims, who gradually went insane as the worms ate through their brains.

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Stereophile Staff Feb 02, 2003 First Published: Feb 02, 2003

"How much power do you really need? How much power can you actually use? What's necessary, and what's icing on the cake? And does anyone really need 1000Wpc?" Jonathan Scull takes the Boulder">http://www.stereophile.com//amplificationreviews/764/">Boulder 2050 monoblock amplifier into the listening chamber to confront these and other pressing audio dilemmas.

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Athena Hits the Big Time

Jon Iverson Feb 02, 2003 First Published: Feb 02, 2003

Having a great product at a fair price is mandatory practice in the ever-competitive audio business. But getting the word out and placing those products in front of the customer is just as critical—some might argue, even more important. If this is true, then Canadian speaker company Athena has just made the score of a lifetime.

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Taking On the RIAA

Jon Iverson Feb 02, 2003 First Published: Feb 02, 2003

Heads up RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America): those music dollars skittering away in all directions probably have very little to do with online file trading. That was the message last week as members of two important trade organizations challenged the conventional RIAA view that blames peer-to-peer networks for the record industry's third dismal year in a row.