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Naim's Julian Vereker: May 7, 1945 - January 14, 2000

Paul Messenger Jan 16, 2000 First Published: Jan 16, 2000

On January 14, anyone calling Naim Audio heard an Elgar recording, and visitors to the Naim">http://www.naim-audio.com">Naim website forum learned the sad news that founder and managing director Julian Vereker had died. The company—indeed, British hi-fi as a whole—is mourning the loss of one of its brightest and strongest personalities.

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Stereophile Staff Jan 09, 2000 First Published: Jan 09, 2000

Jonathan Scull writes: "Cable dressing is actually a rather delicate issue that requires a certain leap of faith. The concept is so simple that even I can explain the science to you." And explain he does. Read "Fine">http://www.stereophile.com//finetunes/188/">"Fine Tunes #7" to learn the whole story.

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Day 3 of the 2000 CES

Jon Iverson Jan 08, 2000 First Published: Jan 08, 2000

Digital perfectionists Meridian obviously pulled out all the stops on their new flagship speaker product, the DSP8000. Checking in at $45,000/pair, the eight-driver Digital Active design is expected to hit the market sometime in March. Meridian claims the three-way powered speaker has a 24/96 digital input on the back and processes the digital signal internally with two 100MHz DSP engines operating with 24/192 resolution. Also on display were the new DSP33s, also Digital Active but more modestly priced at $4500/pair.

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CES: No Easy Anwers for High-End Growth Problems, Panelists Agree

Jon Iverson Jan 08, 2000 First Published: Jan 08, 2000

The music business is a $13-billion-a-year industry, but the high-end audio industry reaches only a tiny fraction of the music lovers that number represents. "Everybody loves music, so why don't they love specialty audio?" was the question addressed to a group of industry experts at one of a series of AudioCafe.com-sponsored">http://www.audiocafe.com/">AudioCafe.com-sponsored panel discussions on Friday, January 7, at the Alexis Park, during the 2000 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

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Day 2 of the 2000 CES

Jon Iverson Jan 06, 2000 First Published: Jan 06, 2000

High-end audio in trouble? That's been the consensus the last few years, but the sheer number of new products at this year's Consumer Electronics Show hints at a steady trend in the opposite direction. New developments in power conditioning abound, and several brave companies are even testing the SACD/DSD and DVD-Audio waters.

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Soul & Jazz Greats Mayfield, Washington, & Earland Die

Barry Willis Jan 02, 2000 First Published: Jan 02, 2000

The month of December was particularly hard on the music world, which lost three of its greatest talents within a few days of each other: Curtis Mayfield, Grover Washington, Jr., and Charles Earland. All were in their late 50s.

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Independent Jazz Gets a Shot in the Arm

Jon Iverson Jan 02, 2000 First Published: Jan 02, 2000

It's been a tough year for some of the audiophile record labels, as witnessed by the demise in late November of Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (see previous">http://www.stereophile.com/news/10614/">previous story). The shock of MoFi's sudden departure even prompted Kimber Kable's Ray Kimber to fire off an e-mail to everyone within virtual reading range, urging them to buy a few audiophile CDs and LPs right now, before it's too late.

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Threshold Service to Debut Soon

Barry Willis Jan 02, 2000 First Published: Jan 02, 2000

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.

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Stereophile Staff Jan 02, 2000 First Published: Jan 02, 2000

Now that the big odometer has finally turned over, John Atkinson takes a moment to look back at the last 50 years of music reproduction—the era of high-end audio. Writing in "Happy">http://www.stereophile.com//asweseeit/185/">Happy New Audio Millennium," JA offers a little perspective on where audiophiles have traveled this last half century, and where we haven't.

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Denon and Onkyo Sign with Digital Harmony

Stereophile Staff Dec 26, 1999 First Published: Dec 26, 1999

FireWire's prospects got a little hotter last week, as equipment manufacturers Denon">http://www.denon.com">Denon Electronics and Onkyohttp://www.onkyous.com">Onkyo; announced new license agreements with Digital">http://www.digitalharmony.com">Digital Harmony Technologies. The companies say that they have selected Digital Harmony to add standards-based IEEE-1394 (aka FireWire or iLink) interfaces to their product lines, and both companies expect to release Digital Harmony-powered products in 2000, each certified for compatibility with a number of 1394-based products made by other Digital Harmony partners in the US and Europe.