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Starbucks is taking its signature compilation CDs to the next level—the personal one.

Tower">http://www.towerrecords.com">Tower Records should be back in fighting form on Monday, March 15 when a Delaware bankruptcy court rules on the company's reorganization plans.

From the March 2004 issue, John Atkinson finally gets to listen to the Sonus">http://www.stereophile.com/loudspeakerreviews/304sonus">Sonus Faber Cremona loudspeaker and explains, "it took rather longer than I had expected to set the Cremonas up in my listening room. But, like everything worth experiencing, the wait was worth it."

Apple Computer is riding a wave that shows no sign of breaking.

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.

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.

Recorded music as a packaged-goods commodity continues to decline, according to figures released March 4 by the Recording">http://www.riaa.com/news/newsletter/030404.asp">Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).