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Wireless that Just Works: WiSA Sees Watershed Year for Wireless Audio
Bob Ankosko  |  Apr 23, 2013
Will 2013 be the year of high-quality wireless audio?

Jim Venable, president of the Wireless Speaker & Audio Association (WiSA), thinks so. The association was formed in 2011 to develop interoperability testing and compliance programs for wireless products with a focus on multichannel surround sound systems.

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This Week
This Week in Movies & TV, April 23, 2013: Mobsters & Millionaires
Josef Krebs  |  Apr 23, 2013

Gangster Squad

By 1949, Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn), a New York Jew, has gone West to follow his manifest destiny to take over Los Angeles and then the whole of the Western United States through buying politicians, judges, and cops with profits from his vice, gambling, and drug rackets.

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This Week in Music, April 23, 2013: will.i.am? yes.we.will
Ken Richardson  |  Apr 23, 2013

will.i.am: #willpower

New release (Interscope)

Has a hip-hop-related record ever opened as optimistically as this?

Good morning, welcome to the thing called life
Good morning, don’t you let it pass you by
We laugh, we cry, and then we dry our eyes
We fall, we rise, ready for another try
When life gets tough, remember, we were never born to die
When times get rough, remember, we were born to be alive

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Best in Show
Gary Dell'Abate  |  Apr 22, 2013

I now consider myself a veteran of CES. The good news is that I know exactly how to navigate the floor. The bad news is that it gets harder each show for me to be wowed by anything.

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New Products
Harman Kardon Introduces Networked A/V Receivers with AirPlay
HT Staff  |  Apr 22, 2013
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Harman Kardon® Introduces New AirPlay Networked Audio/Video Receivers

The Harman Kardon AVR 2700 and AVR 3700 epitomize the pinnacle of home entertainment through seamless sound and video, multimedia connectivity and sleek brand design

STAMFORD, Conn. – HARMAN International Industries, Incorporated, introduces two new audio/video receivers that bring superb audio and video quality to any home theater at affordable prices for a peerless experience.

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Grace Notes
Movie Review: Oblivion
Leslie Shapiro  |  Apr 21, 2013

Right off the bat, let’s get something out of the way. Oblivion isn’t a particularly original film. WALL•E, Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind,  Planet of the Apes, 2001, Blade Runner, the overlooked Moon, and most blatantly, Total Recall - you’ll see, ah - homages - to all of them as the 2-hour Oblivion, co-written, produced and directed by Joseph Kosinski, unfolds. 

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This Week
In the wake of Record Store Day
Ken Richardson  |  Apr 19, 2013

Years ago, someone told me that 1,200 high school kids were given a survey. A question was posed to them: Have you ever been to a stand-alone record shop? The number of kids that answered “yes” was . . . zero.

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High Fidelity, First Class: Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon Turns 40
Mike Mettler  |  Apr 19, 2013

The Dark Side of the Moon has long been considered to be the audiophile benchmark. It's been remastered and reissued a number of times over the years since it was initially released March 1, 1973 and proceeded to spend a record 741 weeks (that's 14.25 years!) on the album charts.

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High Fidelity, First Class: Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon Turns 40 Page 2
Mike Mettler  |  Apr 19, 2013

The Dark Side of the Moon has long been considered to be the audiophile benchmark. It’s been remastered and reissued a number of times over the years since it was initially released March 1, 1973 and proceeded to spend a record 741 weeks (that’s 14.25 years!) on the album charts.

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Subwoofer Reviews
Review: SVS PB-1000 subwoofer
Brent Butterworth  |  Apr 19, 2013
Speakers are like karate. Subwoofers are like weightlifting. The quality of a speaker is determined by subtleties: well-chosen drivers, just-right crossover points and slopes, and a perfectly tuned, solidly constructed enclosure. The quality of a subwoofer is determined mostly by its muscle: the size of the enclosure, the displacement of its driver, and the power of its amplifier.
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