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Tower Speaker Reviews
Infinity Classia C336 Speaker System
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 30, 2009
Price: $4,494 At A Glance: Distinctive angular form makes for an un-boxy look • All drivers utilize Ceramic Metal Matrix Diaphragms • Subwoofer has bloat-killing EQ and wireless option

Curves Ahead

Where ideas are concerned,” the late George Carlin said, “America can be counted on to do one of two things: take a good idea and run it completely into the ground or take a bad idea and run it completely into the ground.” Many loudspeaker manufacturers tend to follow one of these two trains of thought, with results that range from staid to disheartening. But there is a third path, the one that Infinity Systems follows, and it will take more than a sentence to summarize, period, enter, tab.

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Audio Video News
Next-Gen Display Gets the Ax
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 30, 2009
As the LCD and plasma categories have matured, some manufacturers have been developing next-generation displays that would supposedly take performance to the next level. One of those display technologies was the Field Emission Display (FED). Alas, Sony has pulled the plug.
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Sanyo PLV-Z700 front projector
Brent Butterworth  |  Mar 29, 2009
The Short Form
$1,799 ($1,995 list) / SANYOPROJECTORS.COM
Snapshot
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Fred Manteghian Blog
Now You Hear It, Now You Don't
Fred Manteghian  |  Mar 29, 2009

The company that started life as <i>Now Hear This</i>, but later decided to go with their acronym, has <a href="http://www.cepro.com/article/now_hear_this_nht_shuts_down/" target="new">decided to cease business </a>as they've known it, effective this coming Tuesday, March 31, 2009. I first became aware of NHT when Corey Greenburg put them on the map in the mid nineties in his <a href="http://www.stereophile.com/standloudspeakers/804/" target="new">Beavis and Butthead tinged review</a>. I had a pair of towers from them, the 2.5, and loved them to death for a while. Lots of "there there" as they used to say.

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A/V Veteran
What Size Screen?...How Far Away?
Thomas J. Norton  |  Mar 29, 2009

"How big is the screen?"

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Audio Video News
$1.29 is too much for a song from iTunes
SV Staff  |  Mar 27, 2009
When iTunes introduced their one-price-fits-all model for selling music, many record labels were unhappy with the situation. The ability to buy a single song for a dollar made full records a hard sell for some artists. But it was a hit with...
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Audio Video News
AT&T Is RIAA's First ISP Ally
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 27, 2009
The bad news, at least for some, is that AT&T will begin sending warning notices to its internet service customers who engage in illegal file sharing. The good news is that this is the Recording Industry Association of America's new alternative to filing mass lawsuits.
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Sony STR-DA5400ES A/V receiver
Michael Trei  |  Mar 26, 2009
The Short Form
$2,000 / SONYSTYLE.COM
Snapshot
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Premiere Design
20,000 Hertz Under the Sea
Scott Wilkinson  |  Mar 26, 2009

<A href="http://www.bowers-wilkins.com">B&W</A>'s Nautilus speakers are not new&#151;they were introduced in 1993&#151;but they remain unequaled in the sheer beauty of their design. And that design isn't merely for the sake of visual impact&#151;it's a classic case of form following function.

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Audio Video News
The hunt for "Plasma Pat" is on
SV Staff  |  Mar 26, 2009
It's fine to look for deals. If you've fully researched (that is, read Sound & Vision regularly and enjoy our thorough test reports) the home theater equipment you're looking to buy, there are few reasons not to shop around for the...
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