Barry Willis sorts out the plusses and minuses fo the Parasound Halo C 2 and Halo A 51 surround processor & 5-channel power amplifier. BW notes, "Five years in development, the company's Halo C2 surround processor is a brilliantly executed piece of technology."

For our DVD review this week, Robert Deutsch screens Silk Stockings from 1957. Featuring Fred Astaire, RD says the wonderfully restored film is "the most perfectly realized of the movie versions of Cole Porter's musicals."