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Soundbars Are for Music Too
Mark Fleischmann  |  Sep 23, 2015  | 
Once a soundbar is mounted on the wall below the TV, a lot of folks are tempted to use it for music. An NPD Group survey found that 55 percent of soundbar owners use it for such things as podcasts and radio (though probably not vinyl). That makes sense, since more than 80 percent of bars have Bluetooth capability to communicate with mobile devices. Among 18-to-34-year-olds, 66 percent use the bar for music. As soundbars wax, other product categories wane. Forty-five percent of soundbar owners retired a home theater in a box system and 35 percent retired an A/V receiver.
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Soundboks: Our Bluetooth Party Speaker Will Rock Your World
Bob Ankosko  |  Oct 12, 2023  | 
Soundboks, a young company specializing in Bluetooth speakers with offices in Denmark and Santa Monica, promises to rock your world with an industrial-grade speaker designed to keep the tunes cranking all day and all night, whether you’re partying in your backyard or hanging at an outdoor festival.
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Soundcast Announces Waterproof Speaker
SV Staff  |  Oct 25, 2016  | 
San Diego-based Soundcast today introduced the VG1 portable Bluetooth speaker ($150) featuring an IP67 “ingress protection” rating certifying that it’s impervious to dust and submersible in 3 feet of water.
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Soundcast to Add Play-Fi & Touch Control to New Outdoor Speakers
SV Staff  |  Sep 18, 2017  | 
Soundcast, the San Diego-based company specializing in wireless outdoor speakers, has announced a couple new features its latest VGX Series models: a capacitive touch interface in two models and DTS Play-Fi support in another.
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Soundcast’s VG7 Flagship Now at Best Buy’s Magnolia
SV Staff  |  Aug 24, 2017  | 
Soundcast today announced that for the first time shoppers can demo the Top Pick-designated VG7 outdoor speaker at Magnolia Home Design Centers and Home Theater Showrooms in Best Buy stores around the country.
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Soundfloat Kickstarter Campaign Sinks
SV Staff  |  Jun 13, 2017  | 
You gotta give the guys at Spika International credit for trying to raise fifty grand on Kickstarter for an “inflatable lounge” with built-in Bluetooth speakers. But after 38 days, the campaign was canceled, having met less than 20 percent of its goal ($9,393).
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Sounding Off in Hope: A 121st Birthday Bash for Klipsch
Mark Henninger  |  Mar 06, 2025  | 
It turns out that if you mix a little history with high-performance audio (and sprinkle on a dash of irreverence) you get the 2025 Klipsch Pilgrimage. Happening on March 7 and 8 in Hope, AR (the town that gave birth to Klipsch), this two-day extravaganza is a full-throttle celebration of Paul W. Klipsch’s 121st birthday.
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Soundmatters' SLIMstage40 Soundbar
SV Staff  |  Aug 12, 2008  | 
Soundbars are in. No, not the kinda bar you regret through your hungover haze the next morning. Slim, single speaker cabinet that blends in seamlessly with your TV-type of soundbar is what we're talking about. The new SLIMstage40 is an amplified...
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SoundSense's Active Noise-canceling System
SV Staff  |  Aug 05, 2008  | 
We all know and love noise-canceling headphones. Who can bear to fly without them, right? Now, imagine that same technology used in your home theater? Come on, who here has a completely acoustically quiet home theater? Between air-conditioners,...
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SoundTube, dARTS Get Creative with Bass
Bob Ankosko  |  Sep 29, 2022  | 
SoundTube and dARTS, two of the seven audio brands owned by Kansas-based MSE Audio, are showing how to get creative with subwoofer placement at CEDIA 2022.
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Source Interlink Announces AnalogPlanet.com, a New Website Edited by Michael Fremer!
Jon Iverson  |  May 30, 2012  | 
Keith Pray, Publisher of the Source Interlink Home Tech Network, is delighted to announce the launch of the newest Home Tech Group website AnalogPlanet.com, edited by the world’s foremost proponent of analog technology, Michael Fremer.
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South Park Season 13 in HD
SV Staff  |  Jan 21, 2009  | 
Lucky for us, season 13 of South Park is going to be in gorgeous high def. Woohoo! From South Park Studios:On Wednesday March 11, 2009 at 10 pm EST South Park goes HD. We are really excited because, not only will the season premiere be in...
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Space Shuttle Lifts Off Live in HD
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Jul 07, 2005  | 
It's the next best thing to being there - or maybe even a better thing - for space buffs, ultimate gear heads, and just plain ordinary folk who want to see the United States manned space program get back on orbit. When the Space Shuttle Discovery launches with its crew of seven astronauts at 11:00 AM (EDT) on July 13th (the currently scheduled launch date), HDNet will be in Cape Canaveral, Florida to provide exclusive, complete high-definition coverage of the historic event (NASA mission STS-114).
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Space-Age Coffee Table Has Built-in Fridge, Speakers
SV Staff  |  Jul 26, 2019  | 
Hong Kong-based Coosno has set out to redefine the everyday (boring) coffee table with something quite unusual…and dynamic: The Coosno Bar.
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SpaceVR Wants to Help You Become a Couch Astronaut
SV Staff  |  Aug 21, 2015  | 
Would you like to explore space without having to shell out $250k for a seat on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo? A startup called SpaceVR plans to offer a virtual reality experience that may be the next best thing. If they succeed, all you’ll need is a subscription and a VR headset .
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