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Premiere Design
Greensound Technology Glass Speakers
Scott Wilkinson  |  Mar 22, 2011

In this blog, I've written about speakers with glass enclosures, such as several models from Perfect8, and even speakers with glass diaphragms, such as the Hario Harion. But I've never before seen glass speakers like those from Greensound Technology, in which a single, freestanding sheet of glass serves as the (almost) full-range diaphragm.

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Other Tech
Tommy Shaw: The Next Right-Sounding Thing Page 2
Mike Mettler  |  Mar 22, 2011

Good is good. It’s a simple adage, but one that’s especially true when it comes to music. Genre and predetermined preferences should be secondary if you’re truly interested in having your ears entertained, challenged, and enriched.

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Other Tech
Tommy Shaw: The Next Right-Sounding Thing Page 3
Mike Mettler  |  Mar 22, 2011

Good is good. It’s a simple adage, but one that’s especially true when it comes to music. Genre and predetermined preferences should be secondary if you’re truly interested in having your ears entertained, challenged, and enriched.

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Other Tech
Tommy Shaw: The Next Right-Sounding Thing Page 4
Mike Mettler  |  Mar 22, 2011

Good is good. It’s a simple adage, but one that’s especially true when it comes to music. Genre and predetermined preferences should be secondary if you’re truly interested in having your ears entertained, challenged, and enriched.

Continue Reading »
Other Tech
Tommy Shaw: The Next Right-Sounding Thing
Mike Mettler  |  Mar 22, 2011

Good is good. It's a simple adage, but one that's especially true when it comes to music. Genre and predetermined preferences should be secondary if you're truly interested in having your ears entertained, challenged, and enriched.

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Audio Video News
Japan Parts Shortage May Disrupt iPad 2
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 22, 2011
Reports about Japanese manufacturing disruptions continue to trickle in and an early casualty may be Apple's just-launched iPad 2. Japan supplies no fewer than five key parts for the tablet everyone desires.

Missing pieces include flash memory, random access memory, electronic compass, touchscreen glass, and battery, the latter from Apple's own Japanese factory.

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Editor's Eye
Who The ____ Are You, and How On Earth Did You Get In Here?
Rob Sabin  |  Mar 21, 2011
"Once in awhile, even a blind pig finds an acorn."

I'll never forget when I first heard that expression. I was just starting my consumer electronics journalism career, writing for a car audio enthusiast magazine, a city slicker from New York interviewing a down-home Southern boy about a high-end install he'd done in his old Acura. I asked him how he'd managed to win all these big car stereo competition trophies, and he let loose that platitude as a way of saying, "well, if you work hard enough and just keep stumbling around, eventually you can't help but get lucky."

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Audio Video News
Mitsubishi to exit LCD TV market
Michael Berk  |  Mar 21, 2011

As noted by HDGuru over the weekend, Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America has confirmed that it will indeed "exit the LCD-TV market entirely" by the end of 2011, concentrating from here on out on its consumer rear-projection televisions (including its highly regarded

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Premiere Design
EgglestonWorks Savoy Speaker
Scott Wilkinson  |  Mar 21, 2011
Located in Memphis, TN, EgglestonWorks has long been known for exceptional speakers. Among the company's newest models is the Savoy, which is designed to meet the ultimate goal of music without compromise.
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In-Wall Speaker Reviews
Sonance SUB 12-500 In-Wall Subwoofer System
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Mar 21, 2011
Price: $3,000 At A Glance: Extremely rigid back-box enclosure construction • 4-inch voice-coil flat woofer • Class D amp can power one or two woofers

Beaucoup Bass in a Box

Some days it’s just better not to defy the laws of physics or other important aspects of the universe. Gravity, the speed of light in a vacuum (but not in a Dyson), entropy, and Murphy’s Law are all there for good reasons. As my mother used to say (calmly petting the Schrödinger cat in her lap), “Pick another parallel universe out of the infinity of multiverses if you don’t like it here.”

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