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Magnum Opus
Scott Wilkinson  |  Oct 06, 2009

I'm on a quest to find the most expensive audio cables in the world&#151;not to buy, mind you, but just to see what the market will bear. From what I've learned so far, the leading candidates come from <A href="http://transparentcable.com">Transparent Audio</A>, whose Opus MM2 cables cost more than most automobiles, especially if you're buying enough to outfit an entire multichannel system.

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Audio Video News
SF-Area Store Hosts Meridian Event
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 06, 2009
Would you like to get a look at Meridian's 810 Reference Video System and its flagship 9.2 surround rig? You can have that and some hors d'oeuvres if you attend Audio High's event this coming Friday, October 9, 2009.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Blu-ray Disc Review: "The Seventh Seal"
Josef Krebs  |  Oct 05, 2009
Criterion's 1999 DVD edition of The Seventh Seal is a favorite partly because of its wonderfully substantial extras. Now the company has upped the ante by releasing Ingmar Bergman's 1957 black-and-white classic on a stunning Blu-ray Disc and adding to those extras, all now in high-def.
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Music Reviews
Music Review: Pearl Jam's "Backspacer"
Billy Altman  |  Oct 05, 2009
Review
Pearl Jam
Music •••• Sound ••••

One usually thinks of the spring rather than the fall as the pr

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Blu-ray Disc Review: "Watchmen Director's Cut"
Marc Horowitz  |  Oct 05, 2009
Warner
Movie •••½Picture •••• Sound ••••½Extras ••••½

If you don't know the

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
David Vaughn  |  Oct 05, 2009

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/snowwhite.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>This is the time-honored story of a princess (voiced by Adriana Caselotti) whose blossoming beauty disturbs her insecure stepmother, the Queen (Lucille La Verne). Each day, the Queen asks a mysterious magic mirror (Moroni Olsen) the question: "Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?" For years, the mirror answers the Queen's name, but when it suddenly says Snow White, the evil woman begins her quest to kill the young girl so she may once again be the fairest of them all.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Blu-ray)
David Vaughn  |  Oct 05, 2009

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/wwonka.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Roald Dahl's classic story tells the tale of five kids who find a golden ticket that entitles them to visit the secretive Wonka Chocolate factory, where one worthy child will win a lifetime supply of chocolate. Charlie Bucket (Peter Ostrum), a poor kid who lives with his mother and two sets of grandparents in the shadow of the factory, is one of the lucky five. The others&#151;well, let's just say they are the result of bad parenting and poor choices.

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Audio Video News
HD Deals: DVD Trade-In Offer
SV Staff  |  Oct 05, 2009
If you are moving your DVD catalog over to Blu-ray Discs then this deal from Amazon might be exactly what you were waiting for: Trade in $50 worth of DVDs and receive a $10 credit toward your next Blu-ray purchase on top of the Amazon gift card for...
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Gladiator
David Vaughn  |  Oct 05, 2009

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/gladiator.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>One of the most eagerly awaited titles makes its debut on Blu-ray with Paramount's new brand&#151;Sapphire Series&#151;promising the pinnacle in both picture and sound. Unfortunately, <i>Gladiator</i> only fulfills half the promise&#151;the audio is outstanding, but the video is a shameful example of using an older master not fit for HD release.

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Audio Video News
Funai working on touch-sensitive projectors
SV Staff  |  Oct 05, 2009
In a few years, your projector-based home theater could literally be at your fingertips. Funai is working on projector technology that responds to touch: you wave your finger over the image, and the projector senses exactly where you're pointing. ...
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