Mark Fleischmann

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Audio Video News
Audyssey Says Go Wide
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 01, 2009
My, surround sound, how you've grown. I remember when you were a wee bairn of 5.1 channels. Then Surround EX added up to two back surround speakers, Dolby Pro Logic IIz added two front height channels, and now those wild men at Audyssey are talking about two front width channels, for a potential maximum of 11.1.
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CES 2015
Auralic DAC Attends to Details
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 08, 2015
Auralic's Vega USB DAC does a lot to earn its $3500 pricetag.
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CES 2015
Auro-3D Height Surround Demo Blows Minds
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 08, 2015
Without a doubt the most mind-blowing surround demo at CES combined Auro-3D height-enhanced surround technology with gear from CAT, ATI, and Theta.
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Audio Video News
AV Dealer Offers Cash for Clunkers
Mark Fleischmann  |  Aug 24, 2009
Cash for clunkers is the deal of the century (or the scam of the century, depending on your point of view). So it was only a matter of time till a smart AV retailer made a trade-in offer.
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Avalon Does Home Theater and We Finally Notice
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 08, 2008
Somehow we've spent the past two years failing to notice Avalon's first and still only home theater speaker package, the Evolution, at around $5000 for a 5.1-channel configuration. Efficiency is HT-worthy at 90dB and the tweeter is a super-cool Avalon-made aluminum-ceramic composite dome mated with Kevlar woofer.
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Bookshelf Speaker Reviews
Avalon NP Evolution 1.0 Speaker System
Mark Fleischmann  |  Aug 04, 2008
Rocky Mountain high.

One of my formative experiences as an audiophile was a visit to Michael Hobson’s showroom in a New York Soho loft. This was before Mike started Classic Records. He was selling Avalon loudspeakers and Jeff Rowland Design Group amps and preamps. How well I recall the floorstanding Avalon Ascent, fed via Cardas cables by two Rowland Model Ones operating as monoblocks. Hobson put on the adagio from Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto performed by Rudolf Serkin. I went on to buy the amp and collect all of Serkin’s Beethoven piano concerto recordings.

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CES 2009
Avalon Spells Aspect with a Capital A
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 09, 2009
The A-shaped Avalon Aspect boasts 92dB efficiency, which should make it compatible with home theater use as long as you're willing to buy five of them -- no complementary center or other models yet. For $8500/pair you get two 7-inch kevlar woofers and a one-inch proprietary neodymium composite tweeter. The latter gets a waveguide-like treatment thanks to a foam structure built into grille. You won't see it unless you pop the grille and look at the underside, as Avalon showed us.
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Audio Video News
Avatar BD Needs Firmware Fix
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 05, 2010
Some Blu-ray players need to have their firmware updated before they can play Avatar in its current 2D release.
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Audio Video News
Avatar Blu-ray Billows
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 07, 2010
Avatar will have gained some weight when its next 2D disc release arrives on November 16, just in time for the holidays.
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Audio Video News
Avatar Breaks Blu-ray Records
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 29, 2010
Avatar is breaking Blu-ray records all over the place, and it's not even out in 3D yet.
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