Three Days of Equipment, Music, and Advice Only Weeks Away
Just about a month away, HI-FI">http://www.hifishow.com">HI-FI '98, The Home Theater & Specialty Audio Show, will interest thousands of audio enthusiasts when it visits The Westin Los Angeles Airport Hotel in Los Angeles, California from Wednesday, June 10 to Sunday, June 14, 1998.
Three Go Universal
For quite a while now, Pioneer and Marantz have stuck their necks out with the few universal SACD/DVD-A/DVD/CD players available. Not any longer, as Onkyohttp://www.onkyousa.com">Onkyo;, Teac and Yamaha join the club with new machines, aimed at consumers hedging their bets as to who will win the high-rez format wars.
Three New Speakers from Raidho
At a well-organized Munich press conference, Danish speaker company Raidho, now owned by Dantax, introduced the successor to the X1, the Raidho X1t Super Mini Monitor (5800, presumably for the pair and equivalent to US$6210). The speaker is equipped with the company's planar-magnetic ribbon tweeter, which claims 50 times less mass than conventional dome tweeters; a 5.25" tantalum-coated ceramic-on-aluminum midbass driver, which claims to raise breakup modes to 15kHz; and a rear port. Frequency range is 70Hz50kHz, impedance >6 ohms, sensitivity 85dB, and black piano and white piano finishes.
Three Tenors Reach Global Audience, Play to Disappointing Crowd in Paris
The Three Tenors may have reached a global audience of 2 billion people during their performance prior to the final game of the World Cup, but they had only 80,000 fans on hand in Paris's Champs de Mars park, acording to estimates by Paris police. That number was only 10% of the anticipated 800,000, most of whom stayed away because of unseasonably cold and windy weather.
Three's a Company
Corporate consolidation has been likened to gravity: an inexorable, hard-to-resist force of nature always lurking in the background. D&M">http://www.dm-holdings.com">D&M Holdings, parent company of Denon and Marantz Japan, has clearly felt its effects, announcing last week its latest acquisition: McIntosh">http://www.mcintoshlabs.com">McIntosh Laboratory.
Threshold Audio Announces New Amp, Preamp
Making good on a promise reportedhttp://www.stereophile.com/news/10923/">reported; back in December of last year, Threshold">http://www.threshold-audio.com">Threshold Audio has returned the Threshold brand to the market with a new stereo power amplifier.
Threshold Corporation Plans Financial Reorganization
Threshold Corporation, long known as one of the original high-end audio equipment pioneers, is discussing plans to restructure the company to meet new market conditions. Threshold, based in Camarillo, California, manufactures high-end audio amplifiers, preamplifiers, and digital products under the Threshold, FortT, and PS Audio product lines. (PS Audio, of which Threshold Corp. is the majority owner, is currently a separate corporation.)
Threshold Near Recovery, Says National Manager
Holding his thumb and forefinger together to reveal barely a sliver of light, Chris">mailto:calish@ix.netcom.com">Chris English said, "This close. We're this close." He wasn't talking about how far apart we were sitting, but about how close Thresholdhttp://www.threshold.com/">Threshold; is to being back in business after an attempted">http://www.stereophile.com/news/10096/">attempted restructuring last year did not work out.
Threshold Service to Debut Soon
Owners of Threshold electronics will soon have an expert service organization available for their amplifiers and preamps. Threshold Corporation national sales manager Chris">mailto:CE@thresholdservice.com">Chris English reports that he has assumed the presidency of a new company to be devoted solely to servicing Threshold equipment. Based in Texas, Threshold Service Company will employ factory-trained technicians and engineers, and will offer warranties on all their work.
TI Completes Burr-Brown Takeover; BA Names New Prez.; Davis, BMG in Joint Venture
Late August news bites: Texas">http://www.ti.com/">Texas Instruments announced August 25 the completion of its acquisition of chipmaker Burr-Brown">http://www.burr-brown.com/">Burr-Brown Corporation in a stock swap. Burr-Brown is highly regarded in the audio industry for its low-noise, high-speed digital/analog converters and digital signal-processing (DSP) ICs. The company also makes ultra-high-quality analog components, a segment of the semiconductor industry expected to grow by 25% in the coming year, according to industry analyst Dataquest.