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Streaming the 2012 Olympics Live
Barb Gonzalez  |  Jul 26, 2012
Watching the Olympics on TV was always a frustrating experience for me. Along with the frequent commercial interruptions, I had to sit through hours of weightlifting and shot-putting to see synchronized swimming. (I know, you were sitting through the synchronized swimming to see the shot-put.) But that problem has been solved for the 2012 London Olympics. NBC has created a website and an app for iPhone, iPad, and Android devices that will show live coverage of every sport and match from start to finish.
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Music Reviews
Jazz Classics get the High Resolution Treatment from Blue Note and HDtracks
Michael Berk  |  Jul 25, 2012

If you're a fan of Blue Note's classic releases of the '50s and '60s - and frankly, what jazz aficionado isn't? - and you're a discerning digitally inclined audiophile, you're in luck! Blue Note/EMI, through our friends at HDtracks, is releasing six classics of the period in glorious 96kHz/24bit and 192kHz/24bit remasters from the original analog masters. 

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Best AVR for Klipsch Speakers
Scott Wilkinson  |  Jul 25, 2012
I'm getting an awesome deal on a 7.2 speaker setup from Klipsch and I need to find a receiver that can drive them properly.

Here are the speakers I'm getting:

  • 2 KF-28 floorstanding speakers
  • 1 KC-25 center-channel speaker
  • 2 KS-14 surround speakers
  • 2 KB-15 bookshelf speakers
  • 2 SW-450 subwoofers
I've spent some time trying to figure out exactly what I need in an AVR, but I'm not confident that I know what I'm doing. I've been thinking about the Yamaha RX-A2010, which allows for 9.2 channels, so I had planned to use the extra two channels to bi-amp the KF-28 speakers, as they are equipped with dual-binding posts. Is this receiver powerful enough to drive these speakers properly?

Kyle Sigo

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Signals
Old Boss, Meet the New Boss
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Jul 25, 2012

I get press releases. Oh boy, do I get press releases. My inbox runneth over. You think spam is bad? Multiply that by 100, and you’ll get an idea of my daily press-release pile. Everybody is flacking their newest and most innovative stuff. And occasionally they flack their oldest and least original.

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Track One
Aerosmith Redraw the Line
Mike Mettler  |  Jul 25, 2012

Those wondering whether Aerosmith could still kick ass and take names live saw any lingering doubts dissipate with the band’s vibrant 107-minute show at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey on July 24.

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Reconsidering Julian Hirsch
Brent Butterworth  |  Jul 25, 2012

They’re still at it. A recent issue of Stereophile featured a sidebar on “13 Products Julian Hirsch Got Right” — implying, of course, that Hirsch got most products wrong. Poke around audio websites and you’ll probably see his name mentioned, often with scorn. But the man retired as technical editor of Stereo Review (Sound+Vision’s forebear) way back in 1998, and passed away five years later. What did he say so long ago that continues to attract attacks?

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Home Theater Geeks Podcast
Podcast 121: Martin Dornfeld
Scott Wilkinson  |  Jul 24, 2012
SurgeX senior engineer Martin Dornfeld discusses power protection and management for home theaters, including surge protection, lightning rods, whole-house versus outlet-level protection, brownouts and blackouts, uninterruptible power supplies, dedicated circuits, grounding, IP power management, whether or not power conditioning can improve the performance of A/V equipment, answers to chat-room questions, and more.

Run Time: 1:06:43

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Blu-ray Player Buying Tips
How to Connect a Blu-ray Player
Scott Wilkinson  |  Jul 24, 2012
If you want the best possible video and audio experience in your home theater, there is no better source than Blu-ray Discs—in fact, nothing else equals the super-sharp video and awesome audio you get from Blu-ray. But I get many questions about how to connect a Blu-ray player for optimum performance, so I thought I'd spell it out here. (Don't be intimidated by the diagram above; it shows lots of possible connections between lots of home-theater devices. This article covers only the connections between the Blu-ray player in the center, A/V receiver on the left, and TV at the top.)
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Blu-ray Movie ReviewsMusic Reviews
This Week in Blu-rays and Music, July 24, 2012
Ken Korman  |  Jul 24, 2012

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3D Blu-ray Player ReviewsBlu-ray Player Reviews
Review: LG BP620 3D Blu-ray Disc Player
Al Griffin  |  Jul 24, 2012

Most new Blu-ray players are cheap enough and perform well enough that there isn’t an urgent need to differentiate between (read: review) them.

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