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Better Acoustics are in Sight
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Sep 05, 2008
Auralex is trying to make acoustical control attractive to more than just hard-core home theater owners. At CEDIA they showed off some of their new SonicPrint custom-printed ProPanels – fabric-covered acoustic absorptive panels – that can be outfitted with fabric covers printed with any kind of design or image you want. They have thousands of licensed artwork available, or you can send in your own image(s) for immortalization on your home theater wall. Auralex has some movie poster artwork available already, and their negotiating to have even more. Hanging an acoustic panel that looks like a movie poster on the wall will sure sound better than hanging a real movie poster covered with glass in a frame on the wall.
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Dynaudio Celebrates 30th Birthday in Style
Mark Fleischmann  |  Sep 05, 2008
The Dynaudio Sapphire is a one-thousand-unit limited edition that made its debut at CES 2008 and is shipping now. It costs $16,500/pair but, hey, just listening to it couldn't do you any harm, right?
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Check Out Our Sister Pub's KEF Reference Review
Mark Fleischmann  |  Sep 05, 2008
I haven't heard the KEF Reference 201/2 but Wes Phillips of Stereophile has. I leave you in his capable hands.
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Sirius and XM Jointly Exhibit as New Company
Mark Fleischmann  |  Sep 05, 2008
With this merger I do thee wed.
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Yamaha Stokes Fires of Class Prejudice
Mark Fleischmann  |  Sep 05, 2008
ONLY .00001 PERCENT OF THE U.S. POPULATION WILL OWN ONE, says Yamaha of its top-line RX-Z11 receiver. What Yamaha does not mention is that the other 99 point something percent are getting ready to slit their throats and steal the receiver.
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Audio Video News
CEDIA: Monster Power
SV Staff  |  Sep 05, 2008
UPS. And I don't mean the guys in the brown trucks. I'm talking Uninterruptible Power Supply. When your AC goes black or brown, shutting down or sagging, it's just not a good thing. Electronic equipment hates it when that happens. To the rescue,...
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Pro-Ject Thinks Inside and Outside the Box
Mark Fleischmann  |  Sep 05, 2008
Pro-Ject's Design Box Series includes an iPod dock, USB phono preamp, stereo amp, mono amp, tube amp, etc. And if you buy four of them, you can keep them in this attractive box, which also comes in red and other colors. And if you flip the box over, you'll find a cutout that accommodates the iPod dock, were that one of your choices.
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Sonus Faber Toys with Your Affections
Mark Fleischmann  |  Sep 05, 2008
Sonus Faber calls this leather-clad mini-monitor the Toy. It includes a ring radiator tweeter and 5.25-inch paper cone woofer for $1495.
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Audio Video News
CEDIA: Invisible Sound
SV Staff  |  Sep 05, 2008
Has this happened to you? You proudly demo your sound system to your friends, and they yawn? I mean, sound from speakers - how boring. Well, with speakers from Madison Fielding and StereoStone, you can impress those friends, and turn yawns into...
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Up Your Tweeter
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Sep 05, 2008
Boston Acoustics rock-like speakers aren’t new, but I did learn something new about them. The tweeters in the speakers are angled upward about 45 degrees. If you use these speakers around your patio or pool where people will be standing or sitting near by, the angled tweeters will help your guests hear the high frequencies in the music. And then you might even get a write up in the society page of your local newspaper detailing what swell entertainment you have in your backyard.
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