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Headphone Amp/DAC Reviews
Tangled Up in Bluetooth
Brent Butterworth  |  Oct 27, 2011

The iPod just turned 10, and I sure feel sorry for my old standby. It’s still working fine, but I know I’ll never own another one. Since I got my Motorola Droid Pro smartphone, the iPod lives in a drawer.

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A/V Veteran
DIY To The Max
Thomas J. Norton  |  Oct 27, 2011
Would you suppose that the speaker shown in this photo is some new commercial speaker selling for six figures?
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Projector Reviews
Projector Roundup: Big Screens on a Small Budget
Kevin James  |  Oct 26, 2011

With prices falling faster than confidence in Greece's economy, is there a better big-screen deal these days than a front projector? Back in 2008 even bargain-basement-priced 1080p models cost about $3,000 - about half what they cost just a year earlier, but still a sizable chunk of change.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Jurassic Park Ultimate Trilogy
David Vaughn  |  Oct 26, 2011
On a remote tropical island, an amazing living theme park becomes a game of survival for humans foolhardy enough to set foot on it. Meticulously recreated dinosaurs spring to astonishing life as a multimillionaire (Richard Attenborough) bankrolls an effort to use advanced DNA technology to bring dinosaurs back to life. When an employee shuts down the security system for personal monetary gain all hell breaks loose when the dinosaurs escape forcing the visitors to play a game of cat and mouse with the deadly prehistoric creatures.

Throughout movie history there are certain films that change the way movies are made and Jurassic Park certainly qualifies due to its cutting-edge use of CGI effects. Even to this day, the dinosaurs depicted in the film look so lifelike it's kind of creepy. When it hit theaters in 1993, it blew audiences away and became an instant classic.

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Desktop Speaker Reviews
Review: Libratone Live
Brent Butterworth  |  Oct 26, 2011

Just three years after the iPod ruled the audio industry, manufacturers are starting to look on it as a quaint “legacy device,” one they have to accommodate for customers who just aren’t with it. The iPod’s being replaced as our primary music source by all sorts of wireless stuff, like smartphones, Bluetooth-equipped computers, and routers connected to network-attached storage (NAS) drives.

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Music Reviews
CD Review: Coldplay
Brett Milano  |  Oct 25, 2011

Most of the music-buying public may disagree, but Coldplay is a tough band to get passionate about, pro or con.

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Home Theater Geeks Podcast
Podcast 84: John Atkinson
Scott Wilkinson  |  Oct 25, 2011
Fresh from his presentation of the Richard Heyser Memorial Lecture at the 131st AES Convention, Stereophile editor John Atkinson talks about some of the points he made in that address, including the fundamental differences between objective measurements and subjective listening, mental maps and the nature of reality, blind testing, how some types of audio products that measure poorly are often praised by listeners, answers to chat-room questions, and more.

Run Time: 1:02:00

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New ProductsHeadphone Amp/DAC Reviews
Curvaceous Docks: Monitor Audio i-Deck 100 and 200, Now Available
Michael Berk  |  Oct 25, 2011

British manufacturer Monitor Audio has a deserved reputation for well-designed, high-performing speaker systems, and the latest offerings in the company's line of iOS device docks, the i-deck 100 and 200, follow in those footsteps. And now they can be yours.

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Signals
How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways.
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Oct 25, 2011

 

How many copies of Jurassic Park do you own? I'll give you an hour to tell me. That's because if you are a dino-fan, it will take awhile to tally them all. Don't miss any! There's VHS, Laserdisk, DVD, the Trilogy DVDs, the Adventure Pack DVDs, Blu-ray…. So, how many copies of Jurassic Park do you own? Well, get ready to buy some more. The Jurassic Park: Ultimate Trilogy Blu-ray set is being released today (with a freshly remastered DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 soundtrack and a whole lotta extras as incentives to purchase). And after that. . .

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AV Receiver Reviews3D Blu-ray Player ReviewsBlu-ray Player Reviews
Samsung HW-D7000 BD-Receiver
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 24, 2011
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Price: $600 At A Glance: A/V receiver with Blu-ray player • Trove of network A/V content • Supplied iPod/iPhone dock

Whenever I want to watch a movie, I plunge a fiberoptic cable into the back of my neck. Apart from a persistent dribble of blood from my neck jack, the results are enviable. In my mind, I experience a full 360-degree 3D image—there’s not even a frame—accompanied by surround sound with height and depth channels that extend from heaven to hell. Music is just as easy. I just access the 100-zettabyte solid-state drive built into my brain. My doctors tell me that with one more firmware update, I can have lossless audio with a bit depth of 831 and a sampling rate of 90,245 kilohertz. Almost as good as vinyl.

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