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TDK Announces 80-Minute Extended-Capacity CD-R Discs

Stereophile Staff First Published: Jun 06, 1999 0 comments

Last week, TDKhttp://www.tdk.com%20">TDK; announced that it is introducing extended-capacity, 80-minute/700MB multimedia and music CD-R discs this July. The new discs add 50MB, or 6 minutes of stereo music capacity, to the conventional 74-minute/650MB CD-R disc. TDK says it is the first manufacturer to offer extended-capacity CD-Rs, and points out that it has been supplying recording studios with 80-minute CD-Rs for music-mastering applications since 1996.(Stereophile's new 77+ minute Bravo! CD, featuring chamber music by Elgar and Mozart, for example, was mastered on a 700MB TDK CD-R.)


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Added to the Archives This Week

Stereophile Staff First Published: May 30, 1999 0 comments

Believe it or not, there are reportedly several "audiophiles" out there who still refuse to accept that an extremely expensive amplifier can justify its price. "For them, the very idea of a $20,000 pair of monoblocks must seem absolutely ridiculous," writes Wes Phillips. "All I can say is that they should steer clear of the Mark Levinson No.33H, or else risk having their tidy little hypotheses shattered into tiny little pieces." For the complete review, take a look at the latest equipment report to hit the Archives: Mark">http://www.stereophile.com//amplificationreviews/115/">Mark Levinson No.33H monoblock power amplifier.


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The Music Business Attempts to Do It the Internet Way

Jon Iverson First Published: May 30, 1999 0 comments

It wasn't too long ago that rock band Pearl Jam set their lawyers after the dozens of independent websites pre-releasing pirated versions of the band's album Yield, hoping to curtail its availability on the Internet. How times change. On June 4, any consumer with access to the Internet and a RealNetworkshttp://www.real.com">RealNetworks; G2 player will have the opportunity to visit the world's "ultimate listening posts" when the Red Hot Chili Peppers' new album, Californication, and Def Leppard's Euphoria, will be available in their entireties for streaming on the Web---four days prior to their official June 8 release.


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DMX and Lycos Sign Global Music Distribution Agreement

Stereophile Staff First Published: May 30, 1999 0 comments

Streaming multiple channels of music has proven a big hit with satellite customers, so it seems natural that DMX---a">http://www.dmxmusic.com">DMX---a subsidiary of TCI Music (soon to be renamed Liberty Digital), and the company responsible for bringing audio to 2.6 million dish owners---would move to the Internet. Last week, DMX announced a multi-year, multi-phase global distribution agreement under which the DMX music service will be transmitted on Lycos&#039">http://www.lycos.com">Lycos' network of websites.


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Audio Revolution Not Far Away, Atkinson Says

Barry Willis First Published: May 30, 1999 0 comments

Stereophile editor John Atkinson---arguably the high-end audio publishing industry's single most important figure, and certainly its intellectual nexus---has seen it all in his 23 years in the high-end audio industry. At HI-FI '99 in Chicago, Audiocafe.com's">http://www.audiocafe.com/">Audiocafe.com's Andrew Keen was able to pull JA away from his busy schedule for an in-depth interview about his views on the industry's current state of affairs---and on what's just over the horizon.


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Zoran Announces Next-Generation DVD

Jon Iverson First Published: May 30, 1999 0 comments

Providing another boost to the nascent DVD-Audio market, Zoran">http://www.zoran.com">Zoran Corporation, a provider of integrated circuits (ICs) and software for digital video and audio applications, announced last week the availability of a new DVD decoder IC chip, the Vaddis">http://www.vaddis.com">Vaddis IV. Zoran says the chip is optimized for fourth-generation DVD players and will include integrated DVD-Audio decoding. According to the company, the new Vaddis IV decoder enables the design of flexible and advanced---yet affordable---new DVD players.


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Get Media's Technology Helps Music Lovers Find Tunes Online

Barry Willis First Published: May 30, 1999 0 comments

Radio broadcasts are still among the most useful resources for finding new music. They are also among the most frustrating. It's a rare occurrence anymore for announcers to tell you the name of a song and who performed it. Often, if you really want to know, you have to call the station and ask. If you're really lucky, someone might be willing to answer your question.


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Cello's New HQ Features Fine Dining

Barry Willis First Published: May 23, 1999 0 comments

Cello">http://www.cello-us.com/">ello Music and Film Systems is not merely one of the world's most prestigious names in audio and video. This week, a plush restaurant is opening at the company's new headquarters at 53 East 77th Street (212 517-1200) on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Cello, as the bar/restaurant/garden is appropriately named, will serve dinner by invitation only until mid-June, when it will be opened to the public, according to Florence Fabricant in the May 19 edition of the New">http://www.nytimes.com/">New York Times.


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AstroJams Back in Action with Grateful Dead MP3s

Barry Willis First Published: May 23, 1999 0 comments

Houston, Texas-based AstroJamshttp://www.astrojams.com/">AstroJams; is back online with Grateful Dead MP3s. The site shut">http://www.stereophile.com/news/10430/">shut down its offerings of Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia Band downloads after receiving a cease-and-desist order from attorneys for Grateful Dead Productions in April. At issue was the site's use of advertising to generate revenue. GDP claims the sole legal right to commercial benefits stemming from the use of the band's music and logos, but had "never">http://www.stereophile.com/news/10440/">never objected" to the free sharing of music in the Dead tradition, according to Dennis McNally of GDP's publicity department.


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Audio Business News

Jon Iverson First Published: May 23, 1999 0 comments

In a tersely worded press release, Carver Corporation announced that on Wednesday, May 12, 1999 it filed a voluntary petition under Chapter 11 in United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Washington. The cause of the filing was "an accumulation of unpaid debt and resulting legal actions filed by creditors. These actions created the prospect of an inequitable distribution of payment to creditors and prevented the Company from being able to operate as a functioning business entity. In October of 1998, the Company ran out of working capital and laid off the remainder of its workforce. Subsequently, at the invitation of the Board of Directors, Robert W. Carver, the founder of the Company and former CEO, stepped in to take over."


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