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Three Go Universal

Jon Iverson First Published: Sep 29, 2002 0 comments

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.


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Hi-Rez Blaster

Jon Iverson First Published: Sep 29, 2002 0 comments

Following Apple">http://www.stereophile.com/news/11396/">Apple Computer's lead in bringing high-resolution audio to the computing environment, Creative">http://www.soundblaster.com">Creative Technology announced last week several audio products intended to facilitate DVD-Audio playback via personal computer. The company is also offering suggestions for making a PC quiet enough for use in a dedictated listening system.


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Against the Dying of the Light, a new CD from Cantus

Stereophile Staff First Published: Sep 22, 2002 0 comments

The combination of accessible world music and transparent sound featured on Let">http://www.stereophile.com//features/465/">Let Your Voice Be Heard, the CD released in 2001 by male-voice choir Cantus, made it an audiophile favorite. Stereophile editor John Atkinson returned to Minnesota earlier this year to record Cantus for a second time. This time, however, the program was very different: an ambitious sequence of choral works illustrating a musical and poetic progression from grief and sorrow to consolation and joy, following the tragic events of September 2001.


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Recommended Components

Stereophile Staff First Published: Sep 22, 2002 0 comments

Hard as it is to believe, next year will be the 40th anniversary of Stereophile's famed "Recommended Components" feature. J. Gordon Holt first set the list to paper when the Beatles were first breaking big in the US, and its April and October appearances have stood as biannual audiophile institutions ever since.


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Content vs Technology

Jon Iverson First Published: Sep 22, 2002 0 comments

It is shaping up as one of the big battles of the 21st century: content owners (who are not necessarily the artists who create content) versus the consumer electronics industry. On the one hand you have Hollywood with its record companies and the RIAA, and on the other, the manufacturers of products and technologies that facilitate the manipulation and use of digital content.


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Numbers Don't Lie?

Jon Iverson First Published: Sep 15, 2002 0 comments

As the saying goes, there are lies, damn lies, and then there are statistics. Statistics can be used to help understand what goes on in the world, but, as any marketing exec or PR company knows, they can also be manipulated to tell a particular story.


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Broadcasters vs. Web Royalties

Barry Willis First Published: Sep 15, 2002 0 comments

On Wednesday, September 11, the National">http://www.nab.org">National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) filed a brief with the U.S. Copyright Office seeking relief from the implementation of a webcasting royalty schedule announced this summer by the Librarian of Congress, James Billington. In June, Billington determined that commercial stations streaming their musical programming on the Internet should pay a rate of .07 cents per song per 1000 listeners, a rate less than half that suggested by the music industry–backed Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel.


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