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Retail Sales Sluggish

Barry Willis Dec 22, 2002 First Published: Dec 22, 2002

Electronics retailers typically depend on the winter holiday shopping season to boost their year-end bottom lines. The hoped-for buying surge apparently hasn't happened in 2002, since Best Buy and Circuit City are both projecting slow sales.

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Stereophile Staff Dec 22, 2002 First Published: Dec 22, 2002

Larry Greenhill wonders, "In crossing over into transistor products, would Conrad-Johnson be able to retain the simplicity, low distortion, and musicality of their tube designs?" LG fires up the Conrad-Johnson">http://www.stereophile.com//amplificationreviews/734/">Conrad-Johnson Premier 18LS line preamplifier to satisfy his curiosity.

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Pirates Pinched

Jon Iverson Dec 15, 2002 First Published: Dec 15, 2002

Visit any major metropolitan city, and chances are you'll eventually stumble upon vendors selling pirate CDs from outdoor tables, often for as little as $5 each. But for the suburban resident in the US, flea markets are where the pirate action is.

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Cirrus Logic Delays Wireless A/V Chips

Stereophile Staff Dec 15, 2002 First Published: Dec 15, 2002

Wireless local audio/video networks and surround sound systems have long been one of the electronics industry's holy grails, given the fact that a major cost in installing home theaters or whole-house audio systems is the wiring. The market potential is so great that major chipmakers have invested enormous amounts of research in developing products that would enable easy placement of audio and video systems anywhere in a home without the need for dedicated wiring.

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Warner Backs CD/DVD-Audio Hybrid

Barry Willis Dec 15, 2002 First Published: Dec 15, 2002

Warner">http://www.warnermusic.com">Warner Music Group is supporting efforts by the DVD Forum to create a hybrid dual-layer CD/DVD-audio disc, according to reports from New York the first week of December. WMG, a unit of AOL Time Warner, is one of the music industry's principal backers of the DVD-Audio format.

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Music Promotes Brain Growth

Barry Willis Dec 15, 2002 First Published: Dec 15, 2002

Want your kids to grow up smarter? Have them study music. Want to hold off the mental ravages of old age? Listen to music. Want to get high (legally), feel ecstatic, make your pain disappear? Music is the cure for what ails you.

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Stereophile Staff Dec 15, 2002 First Published: Dec 15, 2002

Sam Tellig and Kalman Rubinson each take a run at the unique PS">http://www.stereophile.com//amplificationreviews/729/">PS Audio HCA-2 power amplifier to see what it's made of. Will Tellig and Rubinson agree on the HCA-2's worth? Furthermore, what do the odd results of John Atkinson's measurements mean?

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Product Prognostications

Jon Iverson Dec 15, 2002 First Published: Dec 15, 2002

The Consumer Electronic Association's (CEA) Gary Shapiro is known for maintaining an ever-optimistic stance on the progress of home entertainment, and a recent keynote at the Semiconductor Market Outlook Conference earlier this month provided an opportunity for him to reveal his top predictions for the future.

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Fair Use Support

Jon Iverson Dec 08, 2002 First Published: Dec 08, 2002

As tighter restrictions on the use of both audio and video digital content loom">http://www.stereophile.com/news/11393/">loom in the legislature, the Home">http://www.hrrc.org">Home Recording Rights Coalition (HRRC) and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) have teamed up to counter the ever-increasing demands from copyright holders. The HRRC, founded in 1981, is a leading advocacy group for consumers' rights to use home electronics products for private, non-commercial purposes.

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"Soul Man" Case Settled

Barry Willis Dec 08, 2002 First Published: Dec 08, 2002

Singer Sam Moore has won a protracted lawsuit brought against retirement fund trustees of the American">www.aftra.com">American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA). The settlement of the nine-year-old case was announced in an Atlanta federal court on Wednesday, December 5.