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Wisdom Audio Sage Series Architectual Planar Hybrid Speakers First Look
Speaker Reviews on Audioholics &bull Yesterday
Where audio and video equipment undergoes rigorous objective and subjective tests by our staff, ensuring that marketing slogans aren't the only guidelines for your home theater choices. Learn about all sorts of authentic (if sometimes off-the-wall) products that you can spray on, tape on, insert into, or otherwise use to improve a room's acoustics. Sometimes a receiver or a format-converter isn't enough. In those cases, audio and video processors can do wonders to the sounds and sights in your home theater. Peruse our reviews of A/V processors to discover the ones you need. Receivers are often the heart of a… Full Story »
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ZVOX Z-Base 575 Speaker System
Home Theater Magazine &bull Aug 30, 2010
Despite the predictable claims that manufacturers make-and the breathless, indefensible hyperbolic shrieks made by computer geeks posing as audio reviewers-no one-box-solution soundbar can really replace a discrete 5.1-channel surround sound system. ZVOX founder and former Cambridge SoundWorks marketing executive Tom Hannaher knows that, and the ZVOX Website says it. Bravo. No serious home theater enthusiast would consider a soundbar as a main system solution-unless they lived in a concrete bunker and couldn't run wires… Full Story »
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Wisdom Audio Sage Series Speakers
Home Audio Reviews on eCoustics &bull Yesterday
Wisdom Audio describes themselves as "the leader in planar magnetic technologies for architectural speaker solutions." Wisdom Audio has 11 different speaker offerings nearly all of which incorporate planar magnetic and traditional transducer types. They specialize in in- and on-wall speakers… Full Story »
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Polk RTi A1 Speaker System
Home Theater Magazine &bull Aug 30, 2010
Did you know that Baltimore was the second U.S. city to achieve a population of more than 100,000, after New York? It has given us great Americans as diverse as Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American to serve on the Supreme Court, and John Waters, who will probably never serve on the Supreme Court, although I'd… Full Story »
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Sonos iPad app and Spotify
Home Audio Reviews on eCoustics &bull Sep 2, 2010
Amidst the throng of 3D TVs and cool tablets, a huge story to emerge from IFA is the partnership of Sonos and Spotify. A long-time coming but boy is it worth the wait. We grabbed some time with the Sonos crew to… Full Story »
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Creative Expands Wireless-Audio Lineup
Home Audio News on TWICE &bull Yesterday
Milpitas, Calif. - Creative launched multiple new audio products, including a new low-price wireless multi-room-audio system, a new Bluetooth stereo speaker and a new line of gaming headsets. The $69.99 Creative T12 speaker streams music from a $49 Bluetooth-equipped iPod… Full Story »
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NextGen Remote Extender Genius Review
Remote Control Reviews on Audioholics &bull Aug 31, 2010
Where audio and video equipment undergoes rigorous objective and subjective tests by our staff, ensuring that marketing slogans aren't the only guidelines for your home theater choices. Learn about all sorts of authentic (if sometimes off-the-wall) products that you can spray on, tape on, insert into, or otherwise use to improve a room's acoustics. Sometimes a receiver or a format-converter isn't enough. In those cases, audio and video processors can do wonders to the sounds and sights in your home theater. Peruse our reviews of A/V processors to discover the ones you need. Receivers are often the heart of a… Full Story »
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Onkyo PR-SC5508 THX Certified Processor First Look
Audio Processors Reviews on Audioholics &bull Sep 1, 2010
Where audio and video equipment undergoes rigorous objective and subjective tests by our staff, ensuring that marketing slogans aren't the only guidelines for your home theater choices. Learn about all sorts of authentic (if sometimes off-the-wall) products that you can spray on, tape on, insert into, or otherwise use to improve a room's acoustics. Sometimes a receiver or a format-converter isn't enough. In those cases, audio and video processors can do wonders to the sounds and sights in your home theater. Peruse our reviews of A/V processors to discover the ones you need. Receivers are often the heart of a… Full Story »
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World's most amazing subwoofer has no woofer
The Audiophiliac on CNET &bull Aug 29, 2010
We all know subwoofers make bass. Big subwoofers, like the $799 Epik Empire, can sport massive 15-inch woofers and a Class D 600-watt power amplifier, all packaged in a 22x18x24-cabinet. The Empire's 120-pound weight might be a not-so-subtle indication that… Full Story »
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2 More OEM-Integration Devices Ship From JBL For Car
Home Audio News on TWICE &bull Sep 2, 2010
Northridge, Calif. - JBL has begun shipping two new amplifier/digital signal processors that integrate with any aftermarket or OEM autosound system to upgrade sound-system performance. The four-channel $599-suggested MS-A1004 amplifier/processor (above) and single-channel $599-suggested MS-A5001 can be added to any… Full Story »
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JVC Adds Headphones
Home Audio News on TWICE &bull Sep 2, 2010
JVC's HD-S600 JVC added to its Marshmallow line and introduced a new pair of over-ear headphones. The HA-FR50 Marshmallow in-ear headphones come with a remote that can control functions and volume on Apple devices and feature Made for iPod, iPad… Full Story »
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How to Put Home Theater Speakers on My PC
Home Audio How-To's on eHow &bull Sep 1, 2010
Most modern PCs have a provision for digital audio. Sound cards will typically deploy a digital optical or HDMI output, both designed to send bitstreamed surround sound and stereo data to an outboard receiver or decoder. Once decoded, this information… Full Story »
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Recording of September 1989: Denon Anechoic Orchestral Recordings
Stereophile &bull Aug 30, 2010
Denon Anechoic Orchestral Recordings Music and Test Signals for Evaluation of Room Acoustics Mashahiko Enkoji, Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra Denon CD PG-6006 (CD only). Katsuhiro Tsubonou, Yoshiharu Kawaguchi, dirs.; Norio Okada, Katsuhiro Miura, engs. DDD. If this is supposed to be the age of communication, why aren't people communicating? If we can bounce a TV show off a satellite into the Soviet Union, or send an architectural plan along with the designer's signature from New York to London in 30 seconds by facsimile, why the hell haven't we been able to explain to the Great Unwashed what high-end audio is all… Full Story »
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Sumo Andromeda power amplifier
Stereophile &bull Sep 2, 2010
James Bongiorno, the engineer behind the Sumo Andromeda, has enjoyed a long and colorful career as an audio amplifier designer. He has cast himself at times as an enfant terrible, exploding at audio critics and running scandalous advertisements (footnote 1). His best-known amplifier is the Ampzilla, produced by Great American Sound, but he also designed the Dyna 400. Currently Jim is living on a boat and serving… Full Story »
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ADI To Be Busy At CEDIA
Home Audio News on TWICE &bull Yesterday
Melville, N.Y. - ADI will be attending CEDIA Expo in Atlanta later this month, highlighting its lineup, special events and a sweepstakes. Those attendees who visit ADI at booth 1636 during the show can pick up an ADI Play List program at the booth and learn about the latest CE technology, win vendor giveaways… Full Story »
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- Denon
- KEF
- Mitsubishi
- Onkyo
- PLUS
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Panasonic Sa-He100 Specifications
Home Audio How-To's on eHow &bull Aug 31, 2010
The Panasonic SA-HE100's specifications reveal its power and flexibility as a multichannel receiver for home theater enthusiasts. This device creates six-channel surround sound in a variety of digital audio formats, according to CNET. The Panasonic SA-HE100 measures 16.9 inches wide… Full Story »
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Sennheiser Orpheus HE 90 headphones
Stereophile &bull Aug 30, 2010
While headphone listening remains secondary to that of loudspeakers for most serious listeners, it's still an important alternative for many. And while good conventional headphones exist, electrostatics are usually considered first when the highest playback quality is required. As always, there are exceptions (Grado's headphones come immediately to mind), but most high-end headphones are electrostaticsuch designs offer the benefits of electrostatic loudspeakers without their dynamic limitations. Last year I reviewed the Koss ESP/950 electrostatics (Vol.15 No.12), a remarkable set of headphones from… Full Story »
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Harman Kardon, JBL Unveil Multiple Audio Products
Home Audio News on TWICE &bull Sep 2, 2010
Northridge, Calif. - The Harman Kardon brand is expanding its selection of two-channel audio components and launching its first sound bar while sister brand JBL launches in-room speakers and iPod-docking speaker systems with a new industrial design called "weave." Like other speakers in JBL's Studio 1 series, the top-end $539-each 190 features a weave-design baffle.Other new products from the Harman Consumer Americas brands include a Harman Kardon home-theater satellite/subwoofer speaker package and two new JBL autosound amplifier/signal processors intended to connect to any OEM or aftermarket head unit. In another development, Harman Kardon… Full Story »
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How to Set Up Surround Sound on a TV
Home Audio How-To's on eHow &bull Sep 1, 2010
Although the built-in speakers on most televisions produce adequate sound, a better way to fully experience the audio of most movies and video games is through a connected surround sound system. Surround sound receivers have multiple audio connection ports, giving… Full Story »
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How to Connect Surround Sound 5.1 Speakers
Home Audio How-To's on eHow &bull Sep 1, 2010
Surround sound, available in various incarnations for years, is almost the de facto home audio standard. However, in nearly all cases, these speakers connect to the receivers that drive them in the same way. As a result, getting a 5.1… Full Story »
































