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Threshold Near Recovery, Says National Manager

Barry Willis First Published: Mar 28, 1999

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.

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Stereophile Staff First Published: Mar 28, 1999

Last week, in Book">http://www.stereophile.com//reference/101/">Book Review: High Fidelity Audio/Video Systems: A Critical Guide for Owners, we ran Corey Greenberg's scathing review of an audio book that misses the mark by a wide margin. This week, in Book">http://www.stereophile.com//reference/102/">Book Review: The Complete Guide to High-End Audio, we examine a book written by erstwhile Stereophile consulting technical editor Robert Harley. He does not emerge unscathed!

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Recording Industry Releases 1998 Music Purchase Tallies

Stereophile Staff First Published: Mar 28, 1999

Last week, the Recording">http://www.riaa.com">Recording Industry Association of America released its annual demographic survey of 3051 music purchasers in the United States. "Several interesting profiles emerged in 1998, including the boom in R&B and Gospel, as well as the sharp decline in Rock sales," said Hilary Rosen, RIAA president and CEO. "Demographic shifts also continued, with women outbuying men for the second year, and a drop in purchases among 15-to-29-year-olds, contrasted by significant growth among those age 35 and older." Last month, the RIAA released its annual year-end shipments statistics, which revealed the size of the domestic sound-recording industry in 1998 to be $13.7 billion.

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Robert Deutsch Reports from Festival du Son et de l'Image 1999

Robert Deutsch First Published: Mar 21, 1999

Montreal audiophiles are a hardy lot. Last winter, the city experienced the most devastating ice storm in its history, with power lines demaged to the point that almost the entire city was plunged in darkness. At the time of the 1998 Festival du Son et de l'Image (aka the Montreal Audio/Video Show), residents were still recovering from the effects of the storm. Did this calamity stop the show? No way! By all accounts, the 1998 show was the most successful in the event's 11-year history. I missed it myself, but I made sure that I wouldn't miss the next one.

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Apogee Owners Group Forming

Barry Willis First Published: Mar 21, 1999

Owners of Apogee Acoustics loudspeakers are apparently being left to twist in the wind by a/d/s/http://www.adst.com/">a/d/s/;, the company that took over Apogee and subsequently shut it down (other than to apply the brand to a range of switch-mode power amplification modules). Service will no longer be available for the ribbon speakers, according to Apogee owner Matt">mailto:mcarnicelli@bigfoot.com">Matt Carnicelli.

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The End of Analog As We Knew It?

Jon Iverson First Published: Mar 21, 1999

First with CD players, then digital preamps, and recently amplifiers, digital technology has ground inexorably through the audio chain. Several companies have been developing ways to shorten the analog path or remove it entirely. Meridian's">http://www.meridian.co.uk/">Meridian's "digital" loudspeakers come to mind, as well as the amplifiers from manufacturers Spectronhttp://www.spectronav.com">Spectron; and TacThttp://www.tactaudio.com">TacT;.

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Jon Iverson First Published: Mar 21, 1999

A good reference work on a subject like audio can help speed the understanding of complicated terms and develop the reader's grasp of the hobby's more arcane reaches. Unfortunately, not all audio books serve the audiophile equally well. Read about one such mishap in Book">http://www.stereophile.com//reference/101/">Book Review: High Fidelity Audio/Video Systems: A Critical Guide for Owners.

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