AUDIOPHILE AUDITION - March 2004 Issue

The 62nd issue of AUDIOPHILE AUDITION - the web magazine for music,
audio and home theater - is now online at http://www.audaud.com
Continuing its practice of reviewing more of both new Hi-Res disc
formats than any other publication Net or print, this issue has 61
reviews - a record for us! There are also 82 standard CD and DVD
reviews, including 11 music DVD video reviews - mostly classical archive
performances. In the SACD & DVD-A coverage are the new DVD-A ³Tubular
Bells,² which is Multichannel Disc of the Month. Also Jim Hall¹s
³Concierto,² Marian McPartland with Strings, two Jane Monheit releases,
two ³Trout² Quintets by Schubert, two Mahler symphonies, three
Shostakovich symphonies, and a Tchaikovsky Trio in which the performers
move about the listening room while playing!

The Feature of the Month is on the acoustics of LA¹s new Disney Hall and
additions to the Classical Hall of Fame Recordings. Components reviewed
are Acoustech¹s home theater speaker system, Toshiba¹s 27-inch combo
TV/DVD/VCR, Lumagen¹s Vision Pro Scaler and the Mambo Stereo Integrated
Amp from Music Hall. Continuing features are the weekly Audio News,
Survey of the Print Audio/HT Publications, Audio Links, and the 2003
Best Discs of the Year List.