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Reality Bytes: I Am Audio Legend
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Apr 04, 2008

I trudged through booth after booth, aisle after aisle, mile after mile, becoming increasingly depressed. The Consumer Electronics Show - held mainly in vast, warehouse-size buildings - was like an inventory manager's nightmare. Some idiot had leaned on the "TV" button and unwittingly ordered up a zillion screens.

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AV Receiver Reviews
Marantz Drops Another Solid Receiver
Daniel Kumin  |  Apr 04, 2008
Marantz is one of the grand old names of American audio, and though the seminal hi-fi firm founded by Saul Marantz in 1952 is long gone, the gold-a
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Other Tech
30 Minutes with Cy Curnin of the Fixx
Mike Mettler  |  Apr 04, 2008

"The most interesting thing in life is change." So says Cy Curnin, singer of the perpetually shape-shifting synth-rockers the Fixx, in discussing both his creative (and personal) wanderlust and the impetus behind his second solo offering, The Returning Sun (Cy Curnin/Squirrels Eat Nuts; available at cdbaby.com).

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Walk Hard
David Vaughn  |  Apr 04, 2008

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/404walkhard.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Life wasn't easy for Dewey Cox, but he overcame the obstacles placed before him with music that transformed a country boy into the greatest American rock star who <i>never</i> lived.

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Audio Video News
Blu-ray. Have You Heard of It?
SV Staff  |  Apr 04, 2008
Sit down at a cafe in Paris and begin talking about your latest Blu-ray movie purchase, and odds are your French neighbors will have no idea what you're talking about. Try the same at a Manhattan bar and the barflies will likely get the gist. ...
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Audio Video News
Stones. Scorsese. "Shine a Light." Smash!
SV Staff  |  Apr 04, 2008
Too old to rock & roll? Not the Rolling Stones, as they prove in Martin Scorsese's killer concert documentary Shine a Light, which opens today. The subject of age seems to be on most other critics' minds, but I honestly wasn't struck by the...
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Audio Video News
Blame Canada's Carrier
SV Staff  |  Apr 04, 2008
Comcast isn't the only service provider trying to make room for more high definition channels by compressing other channels into a smaller bandwidth footprint. It looks like they all do it, to some degree, though some carriers are better at masking...
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Audio Video News
Online TV-Watching Goes Mainstream
SV Staff  |  Apr 04, 2008
In 2008, 14% of all television-watching will happen online, according to a study from Convergence Consulting Group. It would be reassuring to also hear that approximately 14% of television-watching will take place outside of a home environment...
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Audio Video News
iTunes: America's Favorite Music Store
SV Staff  |  Apr 04, 2008
In fewer than five short years, Apple has managed to whomp the entire music industry. The iTunes online store sold more music in January and February than any other U.S. retailer, including second-place finisher Wal-Mart, according to a report from...
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Tower Speaker Reviews
PSB Synchrony One Speaker System
Thomas J. Norton  |  Apr 04, 2008
Apart from the occasional foray into cutting-edge technology that doesn't always pan out (ionic tweeters, anyone?), speaker technology is relatively stable—glacial, even, compared to other consumer-electronics products like flat-panel displays. The manageable pace of speaker development has allowed small- and medium-sized speaker companies to thrive. Most of them make nothing but speakers that remain in production for years, which is a plus for buyers. Unlike that flat-panel display you just got, when you buy a new set of speakers today, you can be reasonably sure they won't be yesterday's news tomorrow.
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