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LA's Luxury Tech Show: How to Add Robotics and/or Gold Plating to Everything
Lauren Dragan  |  Oct 02, 2015
This past Wednesday I attended my second Luxury Technology Show in Los Angeles and it was, as the year before it, a study in making the ordinary opulent, and the expensive ridiculously expensive. The LED-message-displaying-booze was flowing and I put on my cocktail attire to see what’s new just for you. Here’s some highlights from what I learned:

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Sweepstakes
The Morrow Audio High-end HDMI Cable with SSI Technology Sweepstakes
SV Staff  |  Oct 02, 2015
Register to win a Morrow Audio High-end HDMI Cable with SSI Technology (MSRP $139.00) we are giving away.

According to the company:

"Made to Morrow Audio high-end specifications with 4K-ready enhancement and meeting its proprietary and renowned SSI Technology guidelines, the HDMI cable helps produce phenomenal home theater picture and sound quality unlike others. With solid soundstage delivery, viewers can see and hear the sounds never before experienced until now. "

[This Sweepstakes is now closed.]

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Ex Machina
David Vaughn  |  Oct 02, 2015
Picture
Sound
Extras
Computer programmer Caleb Smith wins an inter-company competition to spend a week at the remote estate of the company’s brilliant, yet quirky CEO and founder, Nathan Bateman. He soon learns that the vacation will be anything but when he’s coerced into signing a nondisclosure release in order to administer a Turing Test on a new AI program that could revolutionize the world. It turns out that the AI has been placed in a fully functional—and human-looking—robot named Ava, who has been locked in a glass enclosure and can’t be freed unless she proves to Smith and Bateman that she’s achieved full consciousness and is not just copying human behavior.
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Surround Sound System ReviewsTower Speaker Reviews
Sonus Faber Chameleon T Speaker System Review
Daniel Kumin  |  Oct 02, 2015
Performance
Build Quality
Value
PRICE $3,447 as reviewed

AT A GLANCE
Plus
Very honest, very capable reproduction
Unusual, and unusually attractive, cosmetics
Excellent center-channel off-axis consistency
Minus
Ever so slightly warm balance may not please more analytical listeners

THE VERDICT
Wide-range towers and solid tonal matching make for a system that will fulfill many, even without a subwoofer.

Italian technology doesn’t get a lot of respect. (There’s a version of the old joke where in heaven the police are British, the cooks French, and the engineers German; in hell the police are German, the cooks British, and the engineers— you guessed it—Italian.) But think only of Ferrari. Or Lamborghini. Better still, think of supercar maker Pagani, for which today’s examinee, Sonus Faber, provides premium audio systems.

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Ears On
So Long, Lossy, It's Been Dull to Know You
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 02, 2015
Over the past couple of years, I've raised the bar for new entries to my music library. I've been steadily giving up lossy audio. In other words, file formats like MP3 and iTunes-approved AAC are no longer welcome. It is time for my library to move to the next step. So long, lossy. Quoth the raven, nevermore.

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Audio Video NewsNew Products
Integra Introduces Network-Ready Stereo Receiver
SV Staff  |  Oct 02, 2015
Offering a preview of what it will show at CEDIA Expo in Dallas in two weeks, Integra has updated the classic stereo receiver with its new DTM 40.7 network-ready stereo receiver.
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Audio Video News
MQA Music Encoding Tech Gains New Supporters
SV Staff  |  Oct 02, 2015
Mytek Digital and AudioQuest are the latest companies to support the MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) technology created by Meridian founder Bob Stuart, which enables high-resolution music files to be streamed efficiently without sonic compromise. The technology has been adopted by the streaming service Tidal.
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Audio Video News
TiVo Bolt, DIY Electronics Kit Debut at NYC's Holiday Spectacular
Bob Ankosko  |  Oct 01, 2015
Nestled among the dozens of gadgets and gizmo’s at the annual Holiday Spectacular press event in New York City were a few products worth mentioning.

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Audio Video NewsNew Products
Denon to Roll Out Another X Series AV Receiver
SV Staff  |  Oct 01, 2015
Denon announced plans to roll out yet another X Series AV receiver in October, the AVR-X6200W.
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Ask S&V
What’s the Difference Between Hi-Res and Hi-Fi Audio?
Al Griffin  |  Sep 30, 2015
Got a tech question for Sound & Vision? Email us at AskSandV@gmail.com

Q What is the difference between Hi-Res and Hi-Fi? Which is better in your opinion? —Mario Antonio Aburto Calderón / Costa Rica

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