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Back in April 2001, Jonathan Scull got his hands on the Sony">http://www.stereophile.com/digitalsourcereviews/401sony">Sony SCD-C333ES SACD/CD player—a carousel model no less—and filed his report. "So I loaded up five discs for the evening—a process quite different from choosing and playing one disc at a time—and imagined the angle on the bumper shot I'd have to line up for this review!"

The entertainment industry is going the last mile in its war against file sharing. On Friday, October 8, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAAhttp://www.mpaa.org">MPAA;), the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAAhttp://www.riaa.com">RIAA;), and the National Music Publishers Association (NMPAhttp://www.nmpa.org">NMPA;) appealed to the US Supreme Court to overturn a lower court's ruling earlier this year that peer-to-peer (P2P) file-trading networks can't be held liable for copyright infringement.

Tyll Hertsens is on a mission. He strives to transform the ugly duckling bleat of portable audio into music that sings to an audiophile's heart.

Satellite radio goes high-end: Beginning early next year, Krell">http://www.krellonline.com/">Krell Industries will enter the booming market for satellite radio receivers with an XM Radio tuner. The $4000 unit will reportedly also receive traditional AM and FM broadcasts; an optional module will let it stream Internet audio via 802.11g wireless connection to a broadband modem, according to the September 27 edition of This Week in Consumer Electronics (TWICEhttp://www.twice.com">TWICE;). The tuner will join Krell's line of custom installation products. In a similar but less expensive vein will be new Sirius tuners from Russoundhttp://www.russound.com/">Russound;. At $699 and $999, the two new models will also include AM/FM tuners.

There's a certain commercial symbiosis between audio companies and public performance spaces. Tokyo has its Yamaha">http://www.yamaha-hall.co.jp/">Yamaha Hall; New York has its Avery Fisher Hall (1http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/abram/abram.html">1;, 2http://www.lincolncenter.org/visitor/halldescriptions_afh.asp?ws=">2;), named for the hi-fi pioneer whose products were among the best available in the early 1960s.

Last week we reported Dolby's announcementhttp://www.stereophile.com/news/092704mlp/">announcement; that varying versions of their audio technologies have been selected as "mandatory formats" for HD">http://www.dvdforum.org">HD DVD and Blu-rayhttp://www.blu-raydisc.com">Blu-ray;. Significant for audiophiles is that MLP and high-resolution PCM audio will be available both as two-channel and surround formats on HD DVD.

Old-school two-channel hi-fi may be in the doldrums—a phenomenon of concern only to those manufacturers still solely mining that niche. Those who have caught the home-theater wave are working overtime developing and producing great-sounding new equipment for use with surround-sound systems, flat-panel televisions, and custom installation, according to reports from the CEDIA">http://www.cedia.org">CEDIA Expo held earlier this month in Indianapolis.