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Music Lovers Have Affordable Options for Home Sound Systems.

By Jon Fortt, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 11--Computers have evolved into the best place to store and manage music files, and a new breed of affordable DVD/surround-sound systems have brought Dolby Digital sound into more family rooms.

But hooking the computer and the stereo together is still a challenge.

Audio hobbyists sniff at these advances. Digital music is usually stored on computers in compressed MP3 files but these are too low-quality to deliver concert-hall sound, aficionados would say, and

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