Issue 83
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ACOUSTICS
The Acoustics of Speaker Placement
by Paul Bergman
What really happens when you move your speakers over a bit

CINEMA
Image contrast
How do you get maximum contrast in your home theatre image? It turns out that “contrast” has two different meanings.

FEATURE
Two Shows in a Vegas in Transition
by Gerard Rejskind
CES and T.H.E. Show in words and pictures

RENDEZVOUS
The Electrostat Man
UHF talks with a pioneer in the development of electrostatic loudspeakers, Roger Sanders

LISTENING ROOM
The Raysonic CD128
Designed in Canada, assembled in China, this hunk of brushed metal and blue light delivers

The VisionQuest Vision
Can you believe this? A reasonable movie player, plus an audio player that decodes HDCD, and all for under $80!

The Castle Richmond 7i Speaker
It’s been a couple of years since a UK bank changed the locks at the Castle plant. But the marque is back, from a different continent.

Moon Phono LP 5.3
As the vinyl disc picks up unexpected steam against the shrinking CD, Simaudio offers an upscale link from phono cartridge to preamp

The Audioprism Power Foundation III
In our last issue we found this filter to be pretty good. Now we unlock all its goodness.

Two Upscale Cables from Atlas
Atlas challenges the state of the art. and convinces us to make another change to our reference

SOFTWARE
Placido Domingo
by Reine Lessard
A third of The Three Tenors, but so much more!

Software Reviews
by Reine Lessard and Gerard Rejskind

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