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Date Change for CES 2001

Stereophile Staff Feb 27, 2000 First Published: Feb 27, 2000 0 comments

In a move that could save exhibitors a considerable amount of money, the 2001 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is being rescheduled for a day earlier than previously announced. Originally planned to run from Sunday, January 7 through Wednesday, January 10, 2001, the show will now begin on Saturday, January 6 and run through Tuesday, January 9.

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Because There Is a Difference . . .

Jon Iverson Feb 27, 2000 First Published: Feb 27, 2000 0 comments

Conventional wisdom has it that, compared to men, few women express much interest in consumer electronics, and especially audio equipment. In fact, according to Consumer Electronics Association statistics, women accounted for only 22% of the $81 billion spent on consumer electronics in 1999. Prognosticator Jupiter Communcations predicts that, in spite of this, women will account for 46 million online buyers by 2003, and will overtake men in online purchasing.

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US Music Sales Hit New High in 1999

Barry Willis Feb 27, 2000 First Published: Feb 27, 2000 0 comments

A slump in the music business is officially over. Sales of recorded music in the United States last year totaled $14.6 billion, an all-time high. The figure is a 6.3% increase from 1998's total of $13.7 billion, the previous record, according to a recent reporthttp://www.riaa.com/stats/press/021800.htm">report; from the Recording">http://www.riaa.com/">Recording Industries Association of America (RIAA).

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Sonic Solutions and Sony Partner to Deliver Internet Audio

Jon Iverson Feb 27, 2000 First Published: Feb 27, 2000 0 comments

In a statement that may have far-reaching ramifications for the online digital music-distribution business, last week Sonic">http://www.sonic.com">Sonic Solutions and Sonyhttp://www.sony.co.jp">Sony; announced at the Audio Engineering Society Convention (AES) in Paris that they would collaborate to integrate Sony's ATRAC3 (Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding 3) into iMaster, Sonic's suite of tools for the preparation of compressed audio for Internet distribution.

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Wadia Digital and Hales Design Group Join Forces

Barry Willis Feb 20, 2000 First Published: Feb 20, 2000 0 comments

Merger mania in high-end land: Loudspeaker manufacturer Hales">http://www.halesdesigngroup.com/">Hales Design Group and digital audio manufacturer Wadia">http://www.wadia.com/">Wadia Digital Corporation are joining forces to create what the companies' executives are calling "new digital products for the new millennium." The announcement was made February 14 at Wadia headquarters in River Falls, Wisconsin.

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Audio Sales Finish Strong in 1999

Stereophile Staff Feb 20, 2000 First Published: Feb 20, 2000 0 comments

According to figures just released by the Consumer">http://www.ce.org">Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), revenues from manufacturer-to-dealer sales of audio products in December 1999 totaled nearly $568 million, a 6.3% increase over the previous December. CEA reports that the strong month's sales pushed year-end revenue totals to their highest mark in four years: total audio shipment revenues in 1999 surpassed the $8 billion mark for the first time since 1995, growing by 2% over 1998.

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Added to the Archives This Week

Stereophile Staff Feb 20, 2000 First Published: Feb 20, 2000 0 comments

Markus Sauer is in a ponderous audio mood: "When several listeners each play music they like on the system, their reaction should be more uniform. But it isn't. What irks me is that, while we seem to be able to agree pretty well on how a system sounds, there seems to be no consistency of emotional reaction to this sound . . . " Sauer works through this troubling aspect of being an audiophile in "God">http://www.stereophile.com//features/203/">God is in the Nuances." "This journal has seen a number of thoughtful ruminations on what it is that attracts us to music or to a given audio component, and how we should describe that attraction." Now it's Sauer's turn.

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Satellite Radio Companies Work for Unified Standard

Barry Willis Feb 20, 2000 First Published: Feb 20, 2000 0 comments

Satellite radio got a boost toward wider market acceptance on February 16, when Sirius">http://www.siriusradio.com/">Sirius Satellite Radio and XM">http://www.xmradio.com/">XM Satellite Radio announced an agreement to develop a unified standard for satellite radios. The current batch of satellite receivers can pick up transmissions from one of the providers, but not both. The next generation of receivers will expand the technology's reach by enabling reception of both companies' broadcasts.

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Digital Downloads from EMI

Barry Willis Feb 20, 2000 First Published: Feb 20, 2000 0 comments

This spring, downloadable digital music from EMIhttp://www.emigroup.com/">EMI; may begin popping up everywhere, if a new arrangement with Supertrackshttp://www.supertracks.com/">Supertracks; goes as planned. The two companies have created what they believe is a secure system for downloading music to computers, portable players, and to CD burners at kiosks in shopping malls. The news follows by only a couple of weeks an announcement that Warner">http://www.warnermusic.com/">Warner Music and EMI will merge their operations under the larger umbrella of AOL Time Warner.

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DVD-Audio Rises Again?

Jon Iverson Feb 20, 2000 First Published: Feb 20, 2000 0 comments

DVD-Audio has kept a low profile since its misfired "launch" late last year (see previous">http://www.stereophile.com/news/10620/">previous story), but has popped up again at this week's Audio Engineering Society Convention (AEShttp://www.aes.org">AES;) in Paris. Pioneerhttp://www.pioneerelectronics.com/">Pioneer; is demonstrating its latest generation of universal DVD players, recently">http://www.stereophile.com/news/10633/">recently released in Japan, using a new DVD-Audio disc, some of the contents of which were encoded using Meridian Lossless Packing (MLP) technology to enable high-resolution surround sound.