Find out how to get the most — the best sound and the best distribution — from your digital music. This seminar will show you how to: • Stream iTunes throughout your house • Enjoy Internet radio on your hifi • Optimize your iPod and iTunes for better sound • Digitize your music collection • Hook up you iPod and iTunes to your stereo

Panelists: Bobby Oster, Sales Engineer, Sonos; Peter Carroll, Regional Sales Manager for Logitech, manufacturers of the Transporter; Gregory Grubbs, CEO and President, Magic Home Entertainment, manufacturers of the moodSeer; and David Solomon, Sales Manager, Signal Path

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Bring your questions. Panelists include Senior Editorial Staff: Neil Gader, Chris Martens, and Jonathan Valin.

Bernie Grundman will discuss audio quality & mastering from his perspective: the approaches for the high-end audio market compared to mainstream popular music. He will give a brief history of recorded sound and discuss his philosophy of sound recording, including the differences between analog and digital processing. He will play examples of before and after mastering, and some of the thinking that went them. Also, Bernie will talk about he and Stewart Levine's audiophile label, Straight Ahead Records, and talk about it's uniqueness and demonstrate some of the recordings this will only be at the tail of the seminar.

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IN-ROOM SEMINARS

Judging the sound quality of audio components is difficult if you don't know what the sound quality of the recordings you listen to should be. It was to break that infinite loop that Stereophile Editor John Atkinson started recording and releasing audiophile-quality recordings. In a series of seminars at RMAF, John will be looking back at more than 30 years of recording, and playing back some of his hi-rez masters to demonstrate why strict audio purism might not always be what audiophiles prefer.

Roy Gregory and Richard S. Foster of Hi-Fi+ magazine will also be on hand, planning to demonstrate the audible impact of correct cartridge alignment, VTA, different record equalization curves and the benefits of mono cartridges when it comes to mono discs. Their legendary demonstrations have been a fixture at UK hi-fi shows for many years, where visitors have come to expect an eye (and ear) opening experience. This is the first time they've been able to "perform" in the US and it should be well worth a visit. They'll be using a VPI turntable with no fewer than four Lyra Titan i cartridges. In keeping with the magazine's policy the rest of the system will comprise components recently reviewed or used as benchmarks. Electronics will be courtesy of conrad-johnson, with speakers from Avalon and the Nordost Valhalla cable loom. Phono stage should be the remarkable Zanden Model 1200 with the whole kit and caboodle supported on Stillpoints racks. The demonstrations are timed and closed door, with tickets available from the registration desk. Places will be limited so make sure that you get yours early!

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