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LETTERS • FEEDBACK TO THE EDITOR

CALENDAR OF INDUSTRY EVENTS

INDUSTRY UPDATE • AUDIO NEWS & VIEWS

Stick vs automatic

Early hi-fi adventures, and going back to mono.

TAD CE1TX • LOUDSPEAKER

MEASUREMENTS

PS Audio PerfectWave DirectStream MK2 • D/A PROCESSOR

MEASUREMENTS

VPI Avenger Direct • TURNTABLE

MEASUREMENTS

Dan D’Agostino Momentum M400 MxV • MONO AMPLIFIER

MEASUREMENTS

AVM Inspiration CS 2.3 • CD RECEIVER

MEASUREMENTS

FOLLOW-UP

TRIANGLE ANTAL 40TH ANNIVERSARY SPEAKER

ROBBIE FULKS IS BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME • AN EDGY FOLK/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS SINGER AND PIONEER OF ALT-COUNTRY SETTLES IN

FULKS’S CHOICE

Seven sonic scenes of David Lindley

Blue Note coast to coast

Billion Dollar Babies

Elvis On Tour

RECORD REVIEWS

LAURIE STYVERS • Gemini Girl: The Complete Hush Recordings

A CERTAIN RATIO • 1982

THE WOOD BROTHERS • Heart Is the Hero

THE DAMNED • Darkadelic

STEPHEN STILLS • Live at Berkeley 1971

INGRID LAUBROCK • The Last Quiet Place

WAYNE ESCOFFERY • Like Minds

TONY KADLECK BIG BAND • Sides

RICHARD STRAUSS • Four Last Songs; Final Scene from Capriccio

MAHLER • Symphony 2 (Resurrection)

MARIA MATER MERETRIX • Various composers

PROKOFIEV • Symphony No.5

One designer’s dilemma

MANUFACTURERS’ COMMENTS

Why not listen to everything?