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SV Staff  |  Mar 04, 2009
Two years ago, we reviewed the Kaleidescape Movie & Music Server, a rack-mounted home theater beast that could store all of your albums and DVDs on its hard drives. It was big and expensive, but did its job really well, to the extent that we gave...
SV Staff  |  Jul 16, 2024
Kaleidescape, the Silicon Valley firm that introduced the first dedicated movie server in 2001, today announced a new 4K movie player that supports Dolby Vision high dynamic range (HDR) and lossless audio, including Dolby Atmos and DTS:X. The move addresses the criticism that previous players were limited to the static HDR10 format.
SV Staff  |  Aug 21, 2008
The Sonance Kayak speaker isn't a speaker for your favorite whitewater Delta kayak. No, the Kayak speaker, if you hold your head just right and squint just a little bit, looks like a kayak suspended in your living room. Italian speaker designers...
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 04, 2010
A funny thing happened when the founders of the file sharing service Kazaa confronted music industry executives in court: They became allies. Now the guys who once facilitated illicit downloading are launching a legitimate music service called Rdio.
Billy Altman  |  Mar 14, 2012

"Keep Austin Weird" is a catch phrase that adorns many a T-shirt in this Texas town that for well over two decades has hosted the South By Southwest music festival.

Darryl Wilkinson  |  Aug 25, 2006
Auralex Acoustics will be introducing a complete do-it-yourself home-theater room treatment system at the upcoming Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association (CEDIA) Expo in Denver, Colorado.
Bob Ankosko  |  Jul 18, 2023
Wrensilva, the San Diego-based audio company specializing in self-contained audio systems reminiscent of the classic stereo console that was a fixture in living rooms across America in the 1960s and ’70s, has announced a limited-edition version of The Standard, its most popular model.
SV Staff  |  Aug 26, 2019
U.K.-based home audio specialist KEF today announced the addition of a compact home theater speaker to its award-winning Q Series.
 |  Jan 16, 2020
KEF today announced the addition of a versatile, high-performance THX-certified in-wall speaker and new finish options for its Reference Series line of speakers whose origins date back to 1973.
SV Staff  |  Oct 31, 2017
KEF has announced the addition of Spotify Connect to the LS50W wireless speaker ($2,200/pair) introduced in January at CES 2017 as part of the brand’s 55th anniversary celebration.
Bob Ankosko  |  Oct 13, 2022
The audio wizards at England’s KEF are out to prove that they are not just a speaker company with today’s launch of the Mu7 wireless, noise-canceling headphones.
SV Staff  |  Jul 08, 2019
KEF has announced speaker stands and a wall mounting bracket for the stylish LSX speaker series it introduced last fall.
SV Staff  |  Dec 04, 2018
KEF has knocked 33% off the price of its LS50 bookshelf speaker through the end December.
Bob Ankosko  |  Mar 24, 2023
British speaker specialist KEF has once again expanded its range of Ci-Reference architectural speakers with two new THX-certified in-wall models, but this time the focus is on its “Extreme Home Theatre” collection and Dominus-level certification.

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