Issue 57 Table of Contents

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FEATURE
The Music Revolution: the next five years (excerpt)
In issue 37 we predicted the music industry would find a more efficient way of distributing music. Five years later, our predictions have come true. Now we look ahead another half decade.

A Tour of the Markham Show
We used to refer to it as “the Toronto show,” but this year it was so far out we could barely make out the CN tower. Still, it was worth going to.

NUTS&BOLTS
Give Your Hi-Fi a Fall Tune Up! (excerpt)
Would you face the winter season without at the very least getting a look under the hood? Unlikely. In some ways, a stereo system is much like a car.

VIDEO
Farewell Divx (complete)
And other news for those who, like us, think it’s great to watch a large screen movie without getting Cracker Jack stuck on the soles of their shoes.

TEST BENCH
Dynaudio Contour 1.3 MkII (excerpt)
A lot of great speaker systems are designed around Dynaudio drivers. Does the company know how to build its own systems?

Gershman X-1 and SW-1 (excerpt)
Here’s another big speaker from Gershman, but with a difference: you can buy it in two easy payments.

Coincident Super Triumph Signature (excerpt)
Another small Canadian company seeks to extend our knowhow of how a small speaker should behave.

Castle Inversion 15 (complete review)
Can there be a more conservative speaker company than Castle? So what’s with these nifty Art Deco shapes?

The Oskar Aulos (excerpt)
That’s “Oskar” as in Oskar Heil. We’ve seen this maverick tweeter many times before, but never sounding quite like this.

The KR 18 BSI (excerpt)
Can you live with only a few watts of amplifier power if they’re really great watts? Don’t answer too quickly.

SOFTWARE
The Golden Age of the Violin
by Reine Lessard
Most musical instruments evolved. One instrument arrived in its final form, like a gift from the gods. But how? Why?

Record Reviews
by Reine Lessard and Gerard Rejskind

DEPARTMENTS
Editorial
Feedback
Free Advice
The UHF Classifieds
Gossip
State of the Art (complete)

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