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Out of action for more than a year, Mobile Fidelty should be returning soon. Online retailer Music">http://www.amusicdirect.com">Music Direct has purchased the remastering and re-release specialty company, according to an announcementhttp://pages.prodigy.net/amicus1/end_los.htm">announcement; made April 24.

Can pirate chasers attend to business while accusing each other of piracy? Digimarchttp://www.digimarc.com">Digimarc; and Verance">http://www.verance.com">Verance Corporation, two competitors in the digital watermarking race, have been swapping accusations over patent infringements.

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There is no denying that buying pre-owned high-end gear can easily provide the biggest bang for the audio buck. Many of us got our first glimpse of sonic nirvana after scoring some second-hand component at a fraction of its retail price. Or perhaps you've just bought a new product and need to unload that old classic hanging out in the closet. Stereophile wants to help.

Brian Damkroger's audio world may have been in a disorienting flux the last several months, but one thing remained a bastion of stability: the Simaudio">http://www.stereophile.com//digitalsourcereviews/343/">Simaudio Moon Eclipse CD player. Damkroger explains why in his complete report.

Little noted by the mainstream media, technology companies are pushing ahead with research and development programs for high-resolution audio. Two announcements in late April indicate that neither DVD-Audio nor the Super Audio CD is a passing fancy.

One argument for the record industry's disappointing sales last year is a combination of high prices for official CD releases coupled with cheap prices for computer-based CD recorders and CD-R blanks. It doesn't look like retail CD prices will be coming down anytime soon, but luckily for the music business, CD-R prices are going up.