Lucent Digital Radio Gets a Boost
It's been a busy week for Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) pioneers Lucent">http://www.lucent.com">Lucent Digital Radio. (See previous">http://www.stereophile.com/news/10463/">previous report.) The company has announced that a new entity, Lucent">http://www.lucent.com/ldr">Lucent Digital Radio, Inc., has been created as a result of an investment by Pequot Capital Management. The new company will be owned by Pequot Capital investors and Lucent Technologies, which will hold a majority ownership stake. Lucent says it will continue to support the new venture and provide ongoing access to research from the company's Bell Labs research and development unit.
Lucent's 400Gbs Fiber and ADSL = High-Speed Downloads
Build a road and traffic will flow.
Luciano Pavarotti
Luciano">http://www.lucianopavarotti.com/">Luciano Pavarotti interrupted the extended farewell tour he'd begun in 2004 to undergo cancer surgery last July in a New York City hospital. Though he often proclaimed intentions to resume touring, he was forced to curtail further public appearances. After a recent hospitalization for a high fever, he was released on August 25 to spend his remaining days at home. His second wife, sister, four daughters, nephews, and close relatives and friends were all at his side in Modena September 6 as he died.
Luxman Debuts its DSD DAC at Music Lovers
Music Lovers' Hugh Fountain shows off the Vivid Giya G3 speakers
Philip O'Hanlon is one smart cookie. Rather than stage the customary new product demo, where attendees must sit through one or more lengthy spiels before they get a chance to hear a single note, he went right for the gold. As someone who loves music, thrives on music, and takes joy in creating demo CDs for friends, the renowned proprietor of On a Higher Notedistributor of Luxman, Vivid, Brinkmann, Mola Mola, and TriPlanar delighted a full house at the first public demo of Luxman's forthcoming DSD-capable DA-06 DAC ($6000), staged at Music Lovers Audio in San Francisco, by spending close to three enthralling hours spinning music, performing comparisons, and letting the system do most of the talking.Luxman does DSD
Luxman does DSD at listening events to be held at Audio Revelation in Carlsbad, California, and The Gramophone in Alberta, Canada.
Luxman Open House at Audio by Mark Jones
This special event in Toronto includes first North American preview of Luxman's new flagship vacuum tube pre-amplifier.
Luxman Opens US Subsidiary, Launches New Amp and CD Player
On March 16, audio manufacturer Luxman Corporation, now in their 92nd year, announced the establishment of a new US subsidiary, Luxman America: the first time in 30 years that the Japanese tube-amp specialist has had a corporate-owned presence here.
Luxman Returns
Philip O'Hanlon, formerly US marketing director for Halcro, has a new project. His distribution company, On">http://www.onahighernote.com">On a Higher Note, is bringing Japanese high-end company Luxman back to the United States.
Lydstrom's "Next Generation CD Player" will Handle 5000 Songs
If Lydstrom">http://lydstrom.com/">Lydstrom, Inc. has anything to do with it, the next hot ticket in home audio won't be just another CD player, but a musical database manager capable of organizing and playing as many as 5000 songs, from CDs or from Internet downloads. The Boston, Massachusetts-based company announced June 30 that it has licensed Lucent">http://www.lucent.com/">Lucent Technologies' Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coder (ePAC) for inclusion in a product as yet unnamed but projected to be available by Christmas 1999.
M&A Mania
Mergers and acquisitions are among the oldest tactics for commercial ventures that want to increase their power and presence. They are also increasingly popular in the non-commercial sector, according to a March 14 Associated Press report.