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Review: Soundmatters FoxL Dash 7 Page 2
Brent Butterworth  |  Apr 23, 2013

Soundmatters didn't invent the Bluetooth speaker, but it definitely invented the good, compact Bluetooth speaker: the FoxL. The FoxL's guts became the basis for the much cuter and more broadly marketed Jawbone Jambox. The look and general driver layout of the Jambox were then copied-sometimes subtly, sometimes shamelessly-by practically every audio ODM in China.

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Review: Soundmatters FoxL Dash 7
Brent Butterworth  |  Apr 23, 2013

Soundmatters didn’t invent the Bluetooth speaker, but it definitely invented the good, compact Bluetooth speaker: the FoxL. The FoxL’s guts became the basis for the much cuter and more broadly marketed Jawbone Jambox. The look and general driver layout of the Jambox were then copied—sometimes subtly, sometimes shamelessly—by practically every audio ODM in China.

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KEF R900 Home Theater Speaker System
Tom Norton  |  Apr 23, 2013

KEF R900 Speaker System
Performance
Build Quality
Value
KEF R400b Subwoofer
Performance
Features
Build Quality
Value
Price: $9,400 At A Glance: Sweet, clean highs • Big, generous soundstage • Flawless fit and finish

If you’ve been passionate about audio for more than a few years, or can name five loudspeaker companies with names that don’t rhyme with rose and begin with a B, you’ve certainly heard of KEF. In the late 1980s, KEF introduced a new concentric driver that placed the tweeter in the throat of the midrange cone. Dubbed Uni-Q, the design has been continually refined for over 20 years and remains the centerpiece of most KEF loudspeakers.

KEF today is part of a Hong Kong conglomerate...

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Audio Video News
Wireless that Just Works: WiSA Sees Watershed Year for Wireless Audio
Bob Ankosko  |  Apr 23, 2013
Will 2013 be the year of high-quality wireless audio?

Jim Venable, president of the Wireless Speaker & Audio Association (WiSA), thinks so. The association was formed in 2011 to develop interoperability testing and compliance programs for wireless products with a focus on multichannel surround sound systems.

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This Week
This Week in Movies & TV, April 23, 2013: Mobsters & Millionaires
Josef Krebs  |  Apr 23, 2013

Gangster Squad

By 1949, Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn), a New York Jew, has gone West to follow his manifest destiny to take over Los Angeles and then the whole of the Western United States through buying politicians, judges, and cops with profits from his vice, gambling, and drug rackets.

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This Week
This Week in Music, April 23, 2013: will.i.am? yes.we.will
Ken Richardson  |  Apr 23, 2013

will.i.am: #willpower

New release (Interscope)

Has a hip-hop-related record ever opened as optimistically as this?

Good morning, welcome to the thing called life
Good morning, don’t you let it pass you by
We laugh, we cry, and then we dry our eyes
We fall, we rise, ready for another try
When life gets tough, remember, we were never born to die
When times get rough, remember, we were born to be alive

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Gadget Gary
Best in Show
Gary Dell'Abate  |  Apr 22, 2013

I now consider myself a veteran of CES. The good news is that I know exactly how to navigate the floor. The bad news is that it gets harder each show for me to be wowed by anything.

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New Products
Harman Kardon Introduces Networked A/V Receivers with AirPlay
HT Staff  |  Apr 22, 2013
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Harman Kardon® Introduces New AirPlay Networked Audio/Video Receivers

The Harman Kardon AVR 2700 and AVR 3700 epitomize the pinnacle of home entertainment through seamless sound and video, multimedia connectivity and sleek brand design

STAMFORD, Conn. – HARMAN International Industries, Incorporated, introduces two new audio/video receivers that bring superb audio and video quality to any home theater at affordable prices for a peerless experience.

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Grace Notes
Movie Review: Oblivion
Leslie Shapiro  |  Apr 21, 2013

Right off the bat, let’s get something out of the way. Oblivion isn’t a particularly original film. WALL•E, Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind,  Planet of the Apes, 2001, Blade Runner, the overlooked Moon, and most blatantly, Total Recall - you’ll see, ah - homages - to all of them as the 2-hour Oblivion, co-written, produced and directed by Joseph Kosinski, unfolds. 

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This Week
In the wake of Record Store Day
Ken Richardson  |  Apr 19, 2013

Years ago, someone told me that 1,200 high school kids were given a survey. A question was posed to them: Have you ever been to a stand-alone record shop? The number of kids that answered “yes” was . . . zero.

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