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Get Well Soon, Mr. Jobs
SV Staff  |  Jan 15, 2009
Steve Jobs, co-founder and most recognizable figurehead of Apple, father of the iPod, isn't feeling well. A cancer survivor, Jobs announced yesterday that he'll be taking a leave of absence for medical reasons, until the end of June.No...
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Get Your Atmos Demo Here
Bob Ankosko  |  Apr 10, 2015
A Visit to Best Buy’s Magnolia Design Center

Audio snobs might cringe at the idea of visiting a Best Buy but did you know that the chain’s Magnolia Design Centers sell McIntosh electronics and speakers from B&W, MartinLogan, and Sonus Faber?

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Get Your House Party In Sync with Audioengine's AW1
SV Staff  |  Mar 12, 2008
Every audiophile music geek dreams of taking a giant hard drive full of high bit-rate music and streaming it to every room in the house. But making it a reality is expensive and complicated. Short of shelling out $1,000 or more for systems like...
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Get your Oscars on in New York City
SV Staff  |  Feb 22, 2010
[Pictured, clockwise from top center: Obidiah Stane, Bruce Wayne, (possibly) Clint Barton, Lucius Fox, and Harry from Mama Mia. Yes, four out of five of this year's best actor nominees have been or are rumored to be main characters in comic book...
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Get your own Marvel Comics HDTV
SV Staff  |  Mar 01, 2010
There's nerdy, and then there's too nerdy even for me. If you really, really love Marvel Comics, you can get an HDTV branded with a popular Marvel superhero or team. A company named RTC23 just announced that it will be releasing a full line of...
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Getting Personal
Kim Wilson  |  Oct 28, 2008

Nothing makes a statement like personalizing your interior decor with <A HREF=http://www.auralex.com/sonicprint>Auralex Acoustics SonicPrint ProPanels</A>. These acoustic absorptive panels are covered in a special fabric designed to improve the sound of your home theater or media room. The SonicPrint panels help control excessive reverberation and room ring that are caused by hard surfaces like drywall, concrete or wood. Strategically placing these panels on the walls will absorb unwanted sound energy and optimize the acoustical properties of your room, providing more accurate and undistorted sound throughout the listening area.

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Getting your smartphone into the vinyl groove
Michael Berk  |  Apr 07, 2011

Chris Feickert (the Dr. Feickert behind turntable and turntable alignment tool) designer Dr. Feickert Analogue) has been working on Adjust+-an interesting hardware/software test suite for turntable adjustment-for a couple of years now.

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Giant Interactive brings advanced BD-Live tech to U.S.
SV Staff  |  Nov 24, 2009
The BD-Live interactive online content feature of the Blu-ray Disc format hasn't gotten much attention since it debuted last year. That's because the content sucked at the start, and it didn't improve despite ridicule in the press and on...
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Gift Card, Sure, but for Whom?
SV Staff  |  Jan 02, 2008
Got a gift card for the holidays? Better use it or lose it to a company that could double its money if the card isn't used within a certain period of time. Earlier this year, says Consumer Reports, the TowerGroup research firm in Needham, Mass.,...
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GigaMonster Looms Over ISPs
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 28, 2016
Look out, cable ISPs. You’ve got another competitor to worry about in addition to Google Fiber: GigaMonster.
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Gird Your Loins for 3D Demo Day
Mark Fleischmann  |  Aug 20, 2010
A weekend of 3D demo events will entertain a grateful nation next month. The 3D demo days will be sponsored by the Consumer Electronics Association and ESPN with the additional participation of AT&T, Comcast, and DirecTV.
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Girls on Top
SV Staff  |  May 06, 2008
A study of American technology trends conducted by Canadian research firm SRG (Solutions Research Group) had some interesting results. Most marketing companies and manufacturers tend to view women consumers as an afterthought, often with the...
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Give Your TV a Lift
Bob Ankosko  |  Oct 22, 2015
Walking the aisles of last week’s CEDIA Expo I stumbled upon the Whisper II TV lift from Touchstone of Exton, PA.
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Givin' It Away: Free Zune's for All
SV Staff  |  May 19, 2008
Look out your window. See any frost? Apparently, hell hath frozen over. This is something that we would never have thought we'd see. Most MP3 manufacturers bundle in headphones, sometimes really good headphones with their portable players. In a...
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Giving a Voice to Forgotten Radios
SV Staff  |  Feb 25, 2016
Vintage radio repairman Allen Chiang appreciates the sound and design of long-forgotten radios. Models dating back to the pre-TV era when families gathered ’round the “talking box” to listen to the news and iconic serials like The Shadow or Buck Rogers. Sixties-era radios that conjure images of The Jetsons and a quaint vision of the future.
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