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Sonic Flashlight: HyperSound Clear Audio Beaming
Bob Ankosko  |  Nov 03, 2015
Imagine if you could focus sound the same way you beam light from a flashlight. Think of the possibilities. You could direct sound to Bill, and Betty, who’s sitting right next to him, wouldn’t hear a thing. Sort of like headphones without…uh… the ’phones.
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Millennials: Your Soundbars Are Killing Us
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Nov 03, 2015
Millennials, also known as Generation Y, are defined as the demographic with birth years ranging from the early 80s to the early 00s. In other words, Millennials are about 15 to 35 years old. I am appealing to you. You account for almost half of all audio hardware sales. More than any other single group, you are the ones responsible for screwing it up for the rest of us.

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Man on a Mission: Speaker Designer Andrew Jones
Bob Ankosko  |  Nov 03, 2015
Andrew Jones has an impressive history in loudspeakers, having served as the chief speaker engineer at KEF, Infinity, Technical Audio Devices Laboratories (TAD), and Pioneer, where he established a reputation for designing budget speakers that sound shockingly good. In May, following the merger of Pioneer and Onkyo, Germany’s ELAC announced that Jones had not only joined the company as vice president of engineering but was already working on a new line of speakers.
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Audio Video News
“Ultimate Battery” in the Works
SV Staff  |  Nov 03, 2015
Working laboratory prototype of a lithium-oxygen battery.

From the University of Cambridge:

Scientists have developed a working laboratory demonstrator of a lithium-oxygen battery which has very high energy density, is more than 90 percent efficient, and, to date, can be recharged more than 2,000 times, showing how several of the problems holding back the development of these devices could be solved.

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Audio Video News
Amazon Launches Black Friday Deals Store
SV Staff  |  Nov 02, 2015
Wasting no time to prime the holiday selling season, Amazon today launched the “Black Friday Deals Store” and said Prime members, who pay $99 a year to get benefits such as free two-day shipping, will get early access to its one-per-customer Lightning Deals.
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Focal Introduces Quick Install Ceiling Speakers
SV Staff  |  Nov 02, 2015
Upgrading to Dolby Atmos, DTS:X or Auro-3D surround sound and thinking of installing ceiling speakers but worried about the effort involved?
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How Will an AVR Amp Upgrade Affect Audyssey Calibration?
Al Griffin  |  Nov 02, 2015
Got a tech question for Sound & Vision? Email us at AskSandV@gmail.com

Q My current 5.1 audio setup is driven by a Marantz SR7007 AV receiver. Since I’d like to get a little more punch from it, I’m looking at upgrading to an external five-channel amp: either an Outlaw 5000 or Marantz MM7055. Here’s my question: If I connect an external amp to my Marantz receiver, will I still be able to use its Audyssey processing, or do I lose that ability? —Garry Briand / via email

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Grace Notes
Holiday Kickoff? A Trio of Trinkets from Kinivo
Leslie Shapiro  |  Nov 02, 2015
Christmas came early in my house. A package just arrived from Kinivo with an assortment of products that I felt I should share—start spreading that holiday joy just days after Halloween. It’s never too early for that, right?

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The Martian: When a Movie Triumphs Over a Presentation
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Oct 31, 2015
The Martian was one of the best movies I saw this year.

This was despite being one of the worst cinema experiences I’ve ever had.

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Music Reviews
Led Zeppelin: Presence, In Through the Out Door & Coda—Super Deluxe Box Sets
Mike Mettler  |  Oct 30, 2015
And as we wind on down the road, we have now officially arrived at the home stretch of Led Zeppelin mastermind Jimmy Page’s master plan of reissuing all nine of the mighty Zep’s studio offerings in Super Deluxe Edition box set form. Not only has the studio wizard’s magic remastering wand gifted us with a plethora of bonus tracks—mainly consisting of fascinating works-in-progress outtakes and alternate mixes, as opposed to troves of unreleased songs—but Page has been adamant about going the full-on 96-kHz/24-bit route in order to “future-proof” the catalog for whatever audiophiliac upgrades are yet to come. (Knowing how audio formats tend to go, however, that song may not remain the same as time marches onward.)
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