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Soundbar Reviews
MartinLogan Motion Vision Soundbar
Mark Fleischmann  |  Feb 26, 2013

Performance
Features
Ergonomics
Value
Price: $1,500 At A Glance: Three folded-diaphragm tweeters, four woofers • 5.1 Dolby Digital, DTS processing • Wide dispersion, limited dynamics

My system is perpetually a work in progress. The speaker stands are always serving new guests (with martinis). Surround receivers slide in and out of the rack’s guest-receiver berth to bedevil me with the GUI of the week. But once in a while, I can’t resist the temptation to yank every cable out of every back panel, throw them onto the middle of the floor, and marvel as the mountain of copper snakes gets higher and higher. Last year, my system spring cleaning yielded a record haul: More than half the cables I pulled out didn’t go back in.

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Sweepstakes
Jan Wins an Oppo!
Ariel Bitran  |  Feb 26, 2013
As one of our most heralded sweepstakes yet came to a close, tensions ran high among HomeTheater.com members anxiously awaiting notification that they had won an Oppo BDP-105 3D Blu-ray Disc Player. Members emailed me riddled with anxiety: "When are you going to announce the winner?" and "Has the winner been announced yet?" Unfortunately for these nervous nancies, the winner had already been selected, and it wasn't them.
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Track One
Steven Wilson's Raven: The New 5.1 Benchmark
Mike Mettler  |  Feb 25, 2013

How does he do it? How does Steven Wilson continue to create original, envelope-pushing, mind-blowing, mind-expanding music for the surround sound arena?

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Audio Video News
HT Poll Results: Pandora Is Top Music Service, Spotify a Distant Second
HT Staff  |  Feb 25, 2013
The results of last week’s Music Streaming survey are in. We asked which music streaming service is your favorite and 1,067 votes were cast...
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Headphone Reviews
Review: Red Giant A03 and TDK ST750 headphones
Brent Butterworth  |  Feb 24, 2013

If you're wondering what kind of common thread we've found between two such obviously different headphones, stop wondering. They have nothing in common. Except three things:

1) They're both headphones
2) They both employ unusual engineering.
3) They've both been sitting around my office way too long.

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TV ReviewsLCD TV Reviews
Samsung UN75ES9000 3D LCD HDTV
Tom Norton  |  Feb 22, 2013

2D Performance
3D Performance
Features
Ergonomics
Value
Price: $9,000 At A Glance: Superb resolution and color • Impressive blacks • State-of-the-art 3D

If last year was the year of thin in flat-screen HDTVs, 2013 promises to be the year of big. Seventy may well be the new fifty, and we’re not talking birthdays. While this year’s models are still remarkably thin, now your friends can ooh and ahh while viewing them from the front and not just the sides.

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Premiere Design
Aragon Iridium Monoblock: The Signature V Rides Again
Bob Ankosko  |  Feb 22, 2013
Gibson has its famous Flying V guitar, the high-end audio community has Aragon’s signature V-notch power amp, introduced 25 years ago in Mondial’s Aragon 4004 amplifier and resurrected in the Iridium Monoblock, flagship of the recently revived Aragon brand.
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Tech2
PlayStation 4 Revealed! Sort of…
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Feb 21, 2013

It's hard to write up news about the PS4 when there wasn't any actual news about the PS4. At what best can be described as a "Save-the-Date" event, Sony laid out their ideas for their next-gen console, but gave few, if any, specifics.

What we found out is... interesting. By far the PS4 is being pushed as a gaming console to act as a central hub for a gaming lifestyle, than a hardcore, cutting-edge, gaming machine.

That and other disappointments AWESOME GAMING NEWS after the jump.

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Other Tech
Truly Useful Apps: Watching TV on the Second Screen
Michael Antonoff  |  Feb 21, 2013
So desperate are the networks to keep you cuffed to their shows that they’ve been launching apps for the second screen. Made for the tablets and smartphones to which viewers’ eyes keep darting—often at the expense of the TV screen—these apps are intended to boost fan loyalty.
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Power Amplifier ReviewsSurround Processor Reviews
Marantz AV8801 Surround Processor & MM8077 Amplifier
David Vaughn  |  Feb 20, 2013

AV8801 Surround Processor
Audio Performance
Video Performance
Features
Ergonomics
Value
 
MM8077 Amplifier
Performance
Features
Ergonomics
Value
Price: AV8801, $3,599; MM8077, $2,399 At a Glance: Up to 11.2-channel playback with Audyssey DSX and DTS Neo:X Audyssey MultEQ XT32 and Sub EQ HT Apple AirPlay support

As A/V enthusiasts, we are constantly on the lookout for the best audio and video we can find, and when we reach that state of nirvana, we enjoy our equipment until the next CES or CEDIA when we then hear about something new and begin to worry that our system will soon be second best. Writing for Home Theater makes me an unwilling accomplice in this never-ending cycle of upgrade-itis, but truth be told, I’m just as affected by this as the rest of you. Thankfully, I’m able to get my fix by having lots of equipment moving through my rack, but every now and then, I fall in love with a piece and don’t want it to leave my possession.

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