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Acoustic Art: Bang & Olufsen BeoLab 12 Series Speakers
Bob Ankosko  |  Mar 21, 2013
Denmark’s Bang & Olufsen has always had a knack for style, but the BeoLab 12 Series speakers just might be the most elegant-looking speakers you can put on a stand or—even better—hang on the wall next to a flat-panel TV in a modern room.
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Acoustic Geometry Offers Acoustic Treatment Kits at Best Buy Magnolia Locations
SV Staff  |  Mar 01, 2019
Acoustic Geometry, a Minnesota-based company specializing in affordable acoustic solutions, wants audiophiles and home theater enthusiasts to know that its acoustic treatment kits are available at Best Buy’s Magnolia Home Theater locations around the country.
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Acoustic Research Powerline HDMI Reviewed
SV Staff  |  Dec 08, 2008
Who doesn't long for a wireless way to connect your high-tech gear? The Acoustic Research HDP100 tries to answer the calling. It transmits HDMI information through powerlines. So, if you have AC power running to your HDTV, that's all you...
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Acoustic Sounds Launches High-Resolution Music Site Featuring DSD Downloads
SV Staff  |  Sep 09, 2013
Acoustic Sounds, the Salina, Kansas-based company that sells audiophile recordings and operates the vinyl reissue label Analogue Productions, has launched a music site that offers music downloads in a variety of high-resolution formats, including Direct Digital Stream (DSD). The company recently signed a deal with Sony Music and has begun making back catalog DSD recordings available.
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Acoustic Sounds to Record Blues Festival in High-Resolution DSD
SV Staff  |  Sep 25, 2014
Acoustic Sounds has announced plans to record the 17th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads festival in high-resolution Direct Stream Digital (DSD) and make the recordings available on the company’s Super HiRez digital download platform in time for the holidays.
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AcousticSheep Launches Kickstarter Campaign for New SleepPhones
SV Staff  |  Jun 14, 2019
AcousticSheep of Erie, PA has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new version of its popular SleepPhones — flat speakers embedded in a soft headband you can wear to bed to help overcome insomnia.
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Acquisitions Announced
Jon Iverson  |  Oct 14, 2001

Last week, <A HREF="http://www.vdcdisplaysystems.com">Video Display Corporation</A> (VDC) and <A HREF="http://www.christiedigital.com">Christie Digital Systems</A> jointly announced that the companies had reached an agreement in principle for VDC to acquire the Marquee line of CRT projectors from Christie (formerly Electrohome Projection Systems). The companies report that the agreement specifies that all manufacture, sales, service, inventory and other assets and operations of the CRT line of projectors will be transferred to VDC Display Systems of Cape Canaveral, FL, a wholly-owned subsidiary of VDC.

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Actor George C. Scott Dead at 71
Barry Willis  |  Sep 26, 1999

Actor George C. Scott was found dead at his home in Westlake Village, California, on Wednesday, September 22. Medical examiner Dr. Janice Frank said the 71-year-old film star died of an abdominal hemorrhage. Scott had been in ill health in recent years; Frank characterized his demise as "a natural death."

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Actor Richard Harris Dies
Barry Willis  |  Oct 27, 2002

The film community is mourning the death of actor Richard Harris, who passed away Friday, October 25 at London's University College Hospital, where he was being treated for Hodgkin's disease. He was 72.

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Actors' Strike Unlikely, Says Guild President
Barry Willis  |  Aug 27, 2000

A strike next year by the <A HREF="http://www.sag.org/">Screen Actors Guild</A> (SAG) is not likely, according to a recent statement by the organization's president, William Daniels. "I'm optimistic that we can work something out with the industry," Daniels told reporters after a meeting with industry heavyweight Lew Wasserman at Universal Studios on Wednesday, August 23. Wasserman, the former head of MCA, is now a consultant at Universal, and is known throughout the industry as a shrewd negotiator and dealmaker.

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Actress Madeline Kahn Dies in New York
Barry Willis  |  Dec 05, 1999

Madeline Kahn, the comic actress whom Mel Brooks described as "one of the most talented people that ever lived," died in Manhattan on Friday, December 3, of ovarian cancer. She was 57.

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Acura disses audiphiles with new commercial
SV Staff  |  May 24, 2010
Acura has started showing commercials questioning the nature of luxury, taking pot shots at audiophiles in the process. The commercial shows various luxury items, including an expensive tube amplifier, with the owners weakly trying to justify...
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Acurus Announces 20-Channel Upgrade for ACT 4
SV Staff  |  Feb 08, 2018
Indy Audio Labs (IAL), owner of the high-performance audio brands Aragon and Acurus, has announced plans to expand the immersive audio capabilities of it ACT 4 preamp/processor to 20 channels.
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Acurus Announces State-of-the-Art ACT 4 Processor
Bob Ankosko  |  Oct 21, 2015
Indy Audio Labs (IAL), keeper of the iconic Acurus and Aragon brands, has announced production of the Acurus ACT 4, a state-of-the-art preamp/processor featuring Dolby Atmos and DTS:X surround processing that fueled a number of riveting immersive surround demos at the recent CEDIA Expo.

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Acurus to Introduce Made-in-USA Preamps Designed for the Mobile Generation
HT Staff  |  Jul 15, 2013
Indy Audio Labs, parent company of the high-performance audio brands, Aragon and Acurus, plans to launch a line of Web-enabled preamps and home theater processors later this year. Positioned as “the first separate preamps and pre-pros designed to meet the needs and expectations of today’s mobile generation, the line is based on Indy’s Enhanced Ethernet Control (E2C), which enables the components to talk to other devices on a home network.
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