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RIP: Amar Bose, Founder of Bose Corp.
HT Staff  |  Jul 17, 2013
Amar G. Bose, the MIT-educated electrical engineer who founded Bose Corp. in 1964 and built it into a private multi-billion-dollar empire spanning home, personal, professional, and automotive audio products, died Friday July 12. He was 83.
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Subwoofer Reviews
Review: Kreisel Sound DXD-12012 subwoofer
Brent Butterworth  |  Jul 16, 2013

On Monday, when I reviewed the NXG NX-BAS-500 subwoofer, I recallled a time 20+ years ago when the only companies that made really good subwoofers were M&K and Velodyne. The "K" in M&K stood for Kreisel-Ken Kreisel, to be specific.

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This Week
This Week in Music, July 16, 2013: What were once (Dixie) Chicks are now (Court Yard) Hounds
Ken Richardson  |  Jul 16, 2013

Court Yard Hounds: Amelita

New release (Columbia; tour dates)
Photo by James Minchin

It’s instructive to remember that Emily Robison and Martie Maguire helped co-found the Dixie Chicks in 1989, a full 6 years before Natalie Maines was invited to join. Oh, and of course, Emily and Martie are sisters. Clearly, they have a bond that won’t break, and they use it to their musical advantage on Amelita, the engaging follow-up to their 2000 self-titled debut as Court Yard Hounds.

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This Week
This Week in Movies & TV, July 16, 2013: Civil Rights & Civilization
Josef Krebs  |  Jul 16, 2013

42

42 is so schmaltzy, clean-cut, clean-living, and well brought up that it makes sentimental 1940s-made baseball biopics with Jimmy Stewart (The Stratton Story) or Gary Cooper (The Pride of the Yankees) seem positively cynical and bawdy in comparison.

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Editor's Eye
The Year of the Plasma
Rob Sabin  |  Jul 16, 2013
For the last several years, our annual January pilgrimage to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show has been all about someone else’s toys. Handheld smartphones and tablets, wearable technology (now, what is that about?), fashion earphones, smart appliances, electric car-charging stations, streaming pocket-sized speakers, you name it. It’s been awfully quiet on the A/V front…until now.
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On-Wall Speaker Reviews
Review: Klipsch AW-525 outdoor speaker
Brent Butterworth  |  Jul 15, 2013

Klipsch is of course known for making high-efficiency speakers with horn tweeters. Whether or not that concept pays off indoors, where high-powered amps are common, is a subject of debate among audiophiles. But it definitely pays off outdoors. There, you have no room gain to boost the bass, so you may need more volume.

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Custom Installation Equipment Reviews
Review: OSD German Shepherd outdoor speaker
Brent Butterworth  |  Jul 15, 2013

When I was wandering through websites looking for speakers to review in this test, I found companies I'd never heard of. Most were selling generic outdoor speakers, but one - OSD Audio - offered something with an unprecedented mix of cool and creepy: an outdoor speaker styled to look like a life-size German Shepherd."Special purpose," indeed.

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On-Wall Speaker Reviews
Review: Niles OS5.5 outdoor speaker
Brent Butterworth  |  Jul 15, 2013

When we put together comparison tests, we often give manufacturers the parameters (i.e., outdoor speakers at $400/pair) and let them figure out what they want to send. For some reason, Niles chose to send the OS5.5, a speaker that costs just $259/pair.

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On-Wall Speaker Reviews
Review: SpeakerCraft OE5 One outdoor speaker
Brent Butterworth  |  Jul 15, 2013

Most outdoor speakers share pretty much the same design. But the OE5 One, like Speakercraft’s other Outdoor Elements speakers, has a feature found in only a few outdoor models: a ported enclosure. The port allows for deeper bass response than a sealed cabinetdoes.

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Custom Installation Equipment Reviews
Review: Definitive Technology AW5500 outdoor speaker
Brent Butterworth  |  Jul 15, 2013

As I mentioned at the outset, bass is hard to do outdoors. You don't have "room gain" - i.e., the tendency of typical residential rooms to boost bass. Everyone seems to want their outdoor speakers to be about 1 foot tall, and it's hard to get deep notes out of such small boxes. Adding a subwoofer outdoors is complicated.

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