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Audio Video News
Sennheiser sounds the casting call
SV Staff  |  May 04, 2009
Sennheiser calls it the ultimate summer job. I call it a pretty interesting marketing campaign. Either way, it might be your ticket to spending the summer gallivanting around the continent in the name of high-end headphones. The company is...
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Premiere Design
Power Plant
Scott Wilkinson  |  May 04, 2009

As I wrote about the <A href="http://blog.ultimateavmag.com/ultimate-gear/more_power/">Perreaux &#233;loquence 250i</A>, it claims to be the world's most powerful stereo integrated amp, delivering up to 530 continuous watts/channel into 4&#937;. But that's nothing compared with a new monoblock power amp from <A href="http://www.goldmund.com">Goldmund</A>&#151;the Telos 5000, which delivers up to <I>5000</I> continuous watts into 2&#937; (2500W into 4&#937;, 1250W into 8&#937;).

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Bookshelf Speaker Reviews
Klipsch HD Theater 500 Speaker System
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 04, 2009
Price: $600 At A Glance: Six-inch-tall satellites with curved enclosures • Horn-loaded tweeters provide more output with less energy • Sub combines 8-inch woofer with back port

Blow Your Little Horn

There are stories we tell over and over again because they never lose their power to teach us something. For example, the story of “The Three Little Pigs” and the big bad wolf teaches us not to risk our survival on houses made of straw or sticks. If more people had taken this story to heart and made the right decisions on housing, the subprime mortgage debacle never would have happened.

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AV Receiver Reviews
Rotel RSX-1550 A/V Receiver
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 04, 2009
Price: $1,999 At A Glance: Rotel enters the HDMI 1.3 age with two new receivers • Rated power at 75 watts times five • Snazzy aesthetics, minimalist user interface

Family Matters

Longtime readers will recognize the Rotel RSX-1065 as my reference A/V receiver. It’s been around so long that it’s no longer listed on Rotel’s Website. Mine has been in service since 2001, when I reviewed it, setting a record for longevity and giving every loudspeaker review I’ve written since then a firm foundation. When I tell speaker makers what I use for amplification, they breathe a sigh of relief and change the subject. Even the arrival of the seven-channel version, the RSX-1067, left me unfazed. The five-channel version has served me for nearly eight years.

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Audio Video News
Move every sig: real movie-star autographs
SV Staff  |  May 04, 2009
There are three types of celebrity autographs: Sports autographs, convention autographs, and fake autographs. Sports autographs are signed balls, mitts, trading cards, and other memorabilia that bear the signature of a professional athlete....
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Audio Video News
Best Buy to Stock Vinyl
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 04, 2009
The LP has always had friends in high places. Apparently that includes someone at Best Buy, which is considering adding vinyl to all 1020 of its brick-and-mortar stores.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Incendiary—Image Entertainment (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  May 03, 2009
Video: 4/5
Audio: 3.5/5
Extras: 1.5/5
Williams delivers a riveting and heart-felt performance as a young wife and mother who suffers a devastating loss in the attack...which occurs while she's meeting her secret lover. Wracked with guilt and trying to piece her shattered life back together, she becomes embroiled in the police investigation of the attack - and discovers that the authorities will do anything to cover up the terrifying truth behind it.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The Grudge—Columbia Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  May 03, 2009
Video: 3.75/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 3.5/5
Sarah Michelle Gellar stars as an American nurse who has come to work in Tokyo. Following a series of horrifying and mysterious deaths, she encounters the vengeful supernatural spirit that possesses its victims, claims their souls, and then passes its curse to another person in a spreading chain of horror. Now, she must find a way to break this supernatural spell or become the next victim of an ancient evil that never dies, but forever lives to kill.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off—Paramount Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  May 03, 2009
Video: 3.75/5
Audio: 3.5/5
Extras: 3/5
"Bueller... Bueller...?" Sorry, not here! Instead, high-schooler Ferris Bueller, his girlfriend Sloane, and his best bud Cameron are off on the spontaneous romp through Chicago known as "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
American History X—New Line Cinema (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  May 03, 2009
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 2/5
Derek Vinyard is dangerous, a coiled fury of hate who leads a neo-Nazi gang. But time and events start to change him. He reassesses his ways while doing time for manslaughter and emerges from prison eager to keep his younger brother from falling victim to the thug cycle of violence and payback. It may be too late. Weaving in and out of events past and present in Derek's life, "American History X" is revealing in its look at white-supremacist gangs and impassioned in its message that hatred and bigotry can be unlearned.
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