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Stereophile Staff First Published: Mar 08, 2004

Bits is bits? In the December 1990 issue, John Atkinson explored in "Jitter">http://www.stereophile.com/reference/1290jitter">"Jitter, Bits, & Sound Quality" why digital audio turns out to be a complicated process. He writes, "As my violin teacher used to say, 'The right note in the wrong place is the wrong note.'" And so it is with digital data, as JA explains in this groundbreaking report.

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Warner Reorgs and Slashes

Jon Iverson First Published: Mar 08, 2004

As promisedhttp://www.stereophile.com/news/011904roundup/index.html">promised; earlier in January, Warner">http://www.wmg.com">Warner Music Group has announced a major restructuring that it hopes will put it in better shape to compete in the "challenging business environment of today's music industry." The move comes after the recent closing of WMG's $2.6 billion acquisition by Edgar Bronfman, Jr. and a group of investors.

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Better Audio Downloads

Jon Iverson First Published: Mar 08, 2004

Four short years ago, rock band Metallica angered part of its fan base by going">http://www.stereophile.com/news/10746/index.html">going after downloaders who used the online file-trading service Napster. At that time, the band provided Napster with the screen names of 335,000 users reputed to be pirating Metallica's music, and demanded they be removed from the service. The group was also the first">http://www.stereophile.com/news/10725/">first to sue the fledgling company.

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CD MAP Payout

Barry Willis First Published: Mar 01, 2004

In late February, many California music fans discovered in their mail a one-page form letter from the state's attorney general, Bill Lockyer, announcing that he was "pleased to enclose payment for your claim in the settlement of the Compact Disc Minimum Advertised Price Antitrust Litigation." Attached to the bottom of the form letter was a tear-off check made out to the aggrieved music fan from "CD MAP Antitrust Litigation" in Faribault, MN.

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NHT Bounces Back

Barry Willis First Published: Mar 01, 2004

In its nearly two decades, Benicia, CA–based loudspeaker manufacturer NHThttp://www.nhthifi.com/">NHT; has earned a well-deserved reputation for affordable high-performance products, among them legendary mini-monitors, such as the Super">http://www.stereophile.com/loudspeakerreviews/804">Super Zero and Super One, as well as its full-range Model 3.3. Founded by Ken Kantor and Chris Byrne in 1986, the company was sold to Jensen International in the early 1990s, spun off to packaged goods specialist Recoton, and acquired by Rockford Corporation in the final days of 2002—an event that saved NHT from an uncertain fate.

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Stereophile Staff First Published: Mar 01, 2004

John Atkinson headed to the Midwest last year to record another audiophile disc. In Deep">http://www.stereophile.com/musicrecordings/304deep">Deep River: the Cantus Spirituals Project, JA describes the process of capturing a chorus of male voices with high-rez digital equipment. Atkinson notes, "Presented with the magnificent acoustic of Sioux Falls' 1500-seat Washington Pavilion of the Arts & Sciences, the question facing me was how to present what are still fairly intimate works while taking advantage of that supportive acoustic."

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