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UHF Magazine No. 91 was published in December, 2011. All contents are copyright 2011 by Broadcast Canada. They may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. EDITORIAL & SUBSCRIPTION OFFICE: Broadcast Canada 270 rue Victoria LONGUEUIL, Québec, Canada J4H 2J6 Tel.: (450) 651-5720 FAX: (450) 651-3383 E-mail: uhfmail@uhfmag.com World Wide Web: www.uhfmag.com PUBLISHER & EDITOR: Gerard Rejskind EDITORIAL: Paul Bergman, Steve Bourke, Toby Earp, Reine Lessard, Albert Simon PRODUCT PHOTOGRAPHY: Albert Simon ADVERTISING SALES: Alberta & BC: Derek Coates (604) 522-6168 Other: Gerard Rejskind (450) 651-5720 NATIONAL NEWSSTAND DISTRIBUTION: TransMedia Group Inc. / Stonehouse Publications 1915 Clements Rd. Unit 7, Pickering, ON L1W 3V1 Tel: (905) 428-7541 or (800) 461-1640 SINGLE COPY PRICE: $6.49 in Canada, $7.69 (US) in the United States, $15 (CAN) elsewhere, including air mail. In Canada sales taxes are extra. Electronic edition: C$4..00 plus applicable taxes SUBSCRIPTION RATES: CANADA: $62.50 for 13 issues* USA: US$75 for 13 issues ELSEWHERE (air mail): CAN$118 for 13 issues ELECTRONIC EDITION: C$40, 13 issues* *Applicable taxes extra PRE-PRESS SERVICES: Transcontinental PRINTING: Interglobe-Beauce E-EDITION: www.uhfmag.com/maggie.html FILED WITH The National Library of Canada and La Bibliothèque Nationale du Québec. ISSN 0847-1851 Canadian Publications Mail Sales Product No. 0611387 UHF invites contributions. Though all reasonable care will be taken of materials submitted, we cannot be responsible for their damage or loss, however caused. Materials will be returned only if a stamped self-addressed envelope is provided. It is advisable to query before submitting. Ultra High Fidelity Magazine is completely independent of all companies in the electronics industry, as are all of its contributors, unless explicitly specified otherwise. 4 ULTRA HIGH FIDELITY Magazine Editorial Maggie is a hit With our last issue we introduced our new electronic delivery system, named Maggie. Totally different from the old third-partysystem we had used for years, Maggie has been largely problem-free. You need a user name and password only to download your issue, and what you get is a DRM-free standard PDF. You can use it on any computer you own, plus your iPad or (if your eyes are good) your phone. And if you make multiple purchases, your user name and password are always the same. We knew the old service wasn’t terribly popular, and that’s praising it with faint damns. Though the electronic magazines were also PDF’s, they could be read only with Adobe reader, which is not everyone’s favorite way of reading this now universal format. Worse, Adobe reader needed a plug-in. No, we don’t like plug-ins either, especially ones that are no longer supported. You know what was the rate of renewals of subscriptions under the old system? Zero. No one ever renewed. But Maggie is popular, and she’s gained a lot of fans. We’ve been doing a lot of promotion for Maggie, and a couple of worried readers wondered whether that was because we hoped to kill off the print issue altogether. No, in fact. We simply hope to live down the black eye we got from the old system. So far so good. A tale of two shows The last Montreal show was featured in issue No. 90, but we had more to say about it. Specifically, Albert Simon had more to say, and in this issue he’s saying it. As you may know, Albert likes to tour around with other audiophiles, or even complete newbies, and write about their reactions to what they hear. And this Fall I travelled to Toronto for TAVES, the first audiophile show the city had seen since Bill Clinton was a governor. It had been so long, and the dim memories of previous shows were so awful that it was widely thought a Toronto show couldn’t succeed. But it could. And it did. I have four pages about it in this issue. The next show we’ll be covering is in Vegas in January. A full report will be in issue No. 92, and of course on line. Reine returns A number of readers told us they were sad to see Reine Lessard retire from UHF after her contributions to no fewer than 51 issues. They appreciated Toby Earp and Steve Bourke (notice it took two people to replace her), but they appreciated her approach to music. So you may notice that she is back in the contributor list for this issue. Back in issue No. 63, she had written a major piece on the Beatles. But a lot has happened since then, and the afterglow of the Beatles revolution shows no sign of dying out anytime soon. A new version of the feature, longer than the original, with appropriate updates, is in this issue. As for Toby, he’s working on his next musical assignment, for issue No. 92.
DOG-EARED MAGAZINES ARE WRONG! And we mean really wrong. You know those folded-down corners on magazines we just paid good money for? You don’t like them either, right? And it’s the expensive copy that’s likely to be tattered, torn, and… yes, dog-eared. We mean the newsstand copy. Why? Where do copies sit around unprotected? At the newsstand. Where do other people leaf through them before you arrive, with remains of lunch on their fingers? At the newsstand. Where do they stick on little labels you can’t peel off? Beats us why, but they do. Our subscribers, on the other hand, get pristine copies protected in plastic, with the address label pasted on the plastic itself, not the cover. We know what you really want is a perfect copy, and the fact you subscribed and paid a little less doesn’t mean you’ll settle for less. As if that weren’t reason enough, there’s the fact that with a subscription you qualify for a discount on one or all three of our much-praised books on hi-fi (see the offer on the other side of this page). One more thing. Some newsstands run out of UHF four days after the copies arrive. Have you missed copies? So what’s our advice? Well, sure! JUST SUBSCRIBE ULTRA HIGH FIDELITY, 270 rue Victoria, LONGUEUIL, Qué., Canada J4H 2J6 Tel.: (450) 651-5720 FAX: (450) 651-3383 VIA THE INTERNET: www.uhfmag.com/Subscription.html FOR 13 ISSUES: $62.50 (Canada), US$75.00 (USA), C$118 (elsewhere, including air mail costs). For six issues, it’s C$31.25 (Canada), US$37.50 (USA), C$59 (elsewhere). In Canada, add applicable sales tax (14% in QC, or 15% in 2012, ON, NF, NB, NS, 12% in BC, 5% in other Provinces). You may pay by VISA or MasterCard: include card number, expiry date and signature. You must include your correct postal or zip code. You may order on a plain sheet of paper, provided you include all the information. Choose to begin with the current issue or the issue after that. Back issues are available separately. Choose your options: 13 issues 6 issues start with issue 91 (this one), or issue 92 (the next one) VISA/MC NO ______________________________________ EXP. DATE__________________ SIGNATURE ___________________________________ SAVE EVEN MORE WITH MAGGIE’S ELECTRONIC EDITION! Read it on your computer, iPad, etc. It looks just like the printed version. Just C$40/13 issues, worldwide! www.uhfmag.com/maggie.html NAME__________________________________ADDRESS______________________________________________APT__________ CITY_____________________PROV/STATE________COUNTRY__________________POSTAL CODE___________________
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