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Lutron 2012 Excellence Awards
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Dec 27, 2012
For the past nine years, Lutron Electronics has brought together a number of editors and writers in the industry to review and judge a towering stack of anonymous submissions from dealers vying to win one of the lighting control company’s annual Excellence Awards. This year, six writers/editors plus myself were locked in a room at Lutron’s Residential & Commercial Experience Center in Irvine, California, and told we couldn’t leave until—after much discussion, arguing, hair-pulling, and some brutal name-calling—we had collectively decided which projects were the most amazingly cool, excellently conceived, and beautifully implemented in their categories.
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SmartStream
Year-End Review: 2012 Streaming Video Innovations
Barb Gonzalez  |  Dec 27, 2012
2012 was a banner year for innovation in streaming media—innovations that are changing the home theater experience.
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New Products
NAD Launches T 977 Seven-Channel Amplifier
HT Staff  |  Dec 27, 2012
As a service to our readers, HomeTheater.com publishes selected manufacturer-supplied announcements and press releases for products that we think might interest you.
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New Products
PSB Intros Newest Subwoofer, Affordable SubSeries 125
HT Staff  |  Dec 27, 2012
As a service to our readers, HomeTheater.com publishes selected manufacturer-supplied announcements and press releases for products that we think might interest you.
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Editor's Eye
Amp of Ages: Why Power Matters
Rob Sabin  |  Dec 26, 2012
Editor-in-chief Rob Sabin reminisces about a meeting with superstar amplifier designer Dan D’Agostino and lessons learned from a demonstration he'll never forget.
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Signals
Good Vibrations
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Dec 25, 2012

So you’re a committed audiophile. You used a laser to precisely toe in your front loudspeakers. You lie awake at night worrying about that 2-dB dip at 9 kHz in your room’s frequency response. You hire Mike Mettler to hand-deliver every issue of S+V. [I aim to please —Ed.] Well, that’s great.

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Custom Installation How-To
DIY Theater Check
John Sciacca  |  Dec 25, 2012

For those of us without six figures of disposable funds, there are still some ways to improve a home theater/media room that don’t involve organ donation or a potential divorce. Here are some simple, won’t-break-the-bank enhancements that you can do on your own.

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Gadget Gary
Hurricane Gary II
Gary Dell'Abate  |  Dec 25, 2012

It seems like it was only yesterday that I was writing this very column about Hurricane Irene for our November 2011 issue. And now we’ve just lived through Hurricane Sandy, which came with huge warnings and delivered much devastation. Me, I was without power, landline phones, Internet, and cable for 6 days.

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Music Reviews
Hello, Mr. Radio
Mike Mettler  |  Dec 25, 2012

“Jeff has incredible studio I.Q. Ask anyone who makes music: he’s one of the great record producers, period.” So says Tom Petty, and? if anyone should know, it’s him, having worked with Jeff Lynne as a producer on sonic blockbusters like his own Full Moon Fever and the Traveling Wilburys’ Volume? 1.

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Surround Processor Reviews
Rotel RSP-1572 Surround Sound Preamp/Processor
Daniel Kumin  |  Dec 25, 2012

As home theater has become ever more digitally sophisticated, A/V separate components, specifically preamp-processors, have become thinner on the ground as many smaller, separates-oriented manufacturers drop away. While A/V receivers today steal much of the limelight (and dollars), separates soldier on, mostly from the major-brand makers, each of which offers a flagship pre-pro. So too do a handful of low-volume, high-end makers offering very expensive models.

Rotel is one of a very few to occupy the middle ground with a separates line dedicated to both performance and value, and priced for people who might still have to think about it. The RSP-1572, the firm’s most recent pre-pro, is the company’s marquee A/V component.

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