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CEDIA 2010
Vivid Vivitek
Tom Norton  |  Sep 27, 2010
Vivitek wants to be your projector company, either with its premier H9080FD LED-lit, single-chip DLP projector ($15,000) or with its new $5000, H5085 lamp-lit single chipper, or the H1085 DLP. The latter carries an alarming price of $1499 with a specified light output of 2000 lumens.
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CEDIA 2010
Pioneer in 3D Blu
Tom Norton  |  Sep 27, 2010
Pioneer showed three new 3D Blu-ray players, including this Elite BDP-43FD and an Elite BDP-41FD (the latter lacks the 43's extra mass damping). No prices or launch dates were announced.
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CEDIA 2010
Monitor Audio Cast in Bronze
Tom Norton  |  Sep 27, 2010
Monitor Audio introduced its redesigned Bronze line at CEDIA. The entire family is shown here, topped by the floor-standing BX6 at $1000/pair.
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CEDIA 2010
Cast in Bronze II
Tom Norton  |  Sep 27, 2010
Also by Monitor Audio was a new line of Monitor Audio premium in-or-on-walls (available in either form factor). The Soundframe 1iW, shown, utilizes a coaxial driver from 250Hz up. A con-shaped, convex midrange surrounds Monitor's signature gold-colored tweeter. This driver technology should be a natural for the mid/tweeter response in a conventional box horizontal center flanked by a pair of woofers. The Soundframe 2iW, not shown, actually does use this configuration, but with a single woofer. The 1iW and 2iW sell for $800 each.
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CEDIA 2010
A Procella is not a Mushroom
Tom Norton  |  Sep 27, 2010
Procella is a relatively new speaker company to these shores, with headquarters in Los Angeles, Stockholm, and Sydney. Its speakers, apart from the surrounds, follow the professional, powered-speaker paradigm. That is, they are driven by on-board amps. The P815, for example (the two stacked cabinets on the left in the photo, for example, is bi-amplified with 700 x 2 watts of built-in, class-D power. That model sells for $10,000 each.
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Audio Video News
Axiom Audio celebrates its 30th anniversary
SV Staff  |  Sep 27, 2010

Just 30 years ago last week, Ian Colquhoun started Axiom Audio in his friend's garage. To commemorate the company's 3 decades of work in audio, it held a birthday party in the Ontario district of Muskoka.

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Salamander Chameleon
Tom Norton  |  Sep 27, 2010
Furniture isn't exactly a high priority around here, unless its comfy chairs in the home theater room. But we all need something to put our gear on when the concrete blocks and boards will no longer do. This Salamander wall-suspended rack caught my eye. It's lit from the bottom with LEDs,
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CEDIA 2010
Wolf in the Henhouse
Tom Norton  |  Sep 27, 2010
Wolf Cinema has launched three new projectors, including one that is surprisingly affordable for this premium brand. The lamp-based, 2D, DCC-100FD, a single chip DLP, is expected to list for $10,000 when it becomes available early next year. It's rated at 1300 ANSI lumens.
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Bookshelf Speaker Reviews
Bowers & Wilkins 805 Diamond Speaker System
Mark Fleischmann  |  Sep 27, 2010
Price: $14,500 At A Glance: Diamond-domed tweeter in tapered Nautilus tube housing • Center well matched to other speakers • Focused highs, controlled bass

The 800 Dynasty Continues

The world is full of B&Ws. Former and current users of the acronym include Bra & Wessels, the Swedish department store chain; Burmeister & Wain, the Danish shipyard; Boeing & Westervelt, the predecessor of Boeing; and the Black & White Audiovisual Festival of Portugal. The most notorious B&W would be Brown & Williamson, depraved tobacco pushers. So perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that B&W, the formidable British loudspeaker maker, has reverted to its original name—Bowers & Wilkins—even though John Bowers and Roy Wilkins are no longer in the picture.

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Audio Video News
NYC Demands Cable-Guy Punctuality
Mark Fleischmann  |  Sep 27, 2010
Ever spent frustrating hours at home waiting for the cable guy to appear? If you're a New York City resident, he'll have a greater incentive to make it on time. The city has renegotiated its cable franchise agreements with Time Warner and Cablevision to require a month's credit for customers when service calls are late.
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