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UHF Magazine No. 89 was published in December, 2010. All contents are copyright 2010 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, 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, $10.75 (CAN) elsewhere, including air mail. In Canada sales taxes are extra. Electronic edition: C$4.30, all taxes included SUBSCRIPTION RATES: CANADA: $62.50 for 13 issues* USA: US$75 for 13 issues ELSEWHERE (air mail): CAN$118 for 13 issues *Applicable taxes extra ELECTRONIC EDITION: C$43, 13 issues, taxes incl. PRE-PRESS SERVICES: Transcontinental PRINTING: Interglobe-Beauce ELECTRONIC EDITION: www.magzee.com 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 My health bulletin This issue of UHF is wildly behind schedule. It’s my fault…or rather the fault of an obscure bacterium with the beguiling name of Aerococcus Viridans. Go ahead and Google it, but you won’t come up with much. It was the end of winter when it became evident that my health was failing, and my work was falling ever more behind. This issue was close to completion, but my work just wasn’t getting done. By early July I was in hospital with a mysterious disease. Liver? Digestive system? Kidneys? Diabetes? Cancer? A team of doctors at the Charles-Lemoyne hospital ordered batch after batch of high-tech tests that, initially, came up with similarly puzzling results: I was in great shape. Oh, except that I was sick and getting sicker. It took several days, but the truth eventually came out. An exotic bacterium referenced but a dozen times in medical literature had settled on one of my heart valves and destroyed it. As my systems began to shut down, one by one (think Jurassic Park), I was transferred to Montreal’s Royal Victoria hospital for urgent open-heart surgery. The operation was surprisingly routine; I remember when, if someone in town had that sort of surgery, there would be daily front-page bulletins in the local newspapers. Within six days I was home, and gradually (very gradually) I returned to work. The fact that I was otherwise in good health made a thorough recovery possible, and I’m feeling stronger than I had been in a long time. It’s thanks to my colleagues that things more or less held together at the magazine, but we’re a small team, and we don’t have a lot of redundancy either. Particularly warm thanks are due to Lise Lalonde, the angel who led me into a quick recovery. Now where was I before I was so rudely interrupted? Music Features The lead article of our Software section had long been written by Reine Lessard. She wrote, in fact, 51 of them, in considerably more than half the issues. Reine had, however, been phasing out her work at the magazine, and is no longer in a position to do the heavy-duty research necessary to create the articles she is famous for. It’s not impossible you’ll still see her byline here and there, but in the meantime the music article for this issue is from Toby Earp. Toby is a long-time reader and a sophisticated music connoisseur, and last year he also became one of our equipment reviewers. We welcome him as a contributor on the all-important subject of music as well. In his first article he looks at Sergei Rachmaninoff. Born in Russia, dying (in 1943) in Hollywood, Rachmaninoff was a prodigious pianist. As a composer he carried the torch of 19 th Century Romantic music into the 20 th Century. I think you’ll find the article interesting, and it may steer you in the direction of seeking out his music. You could do worse.
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