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C SEED: The perfect TV for a baron or a Bond villain
Brent Butterworth  |  Jul 10, 2013  |  0 comments

Tech^2 started the week with an incredibly tiny projector, now we’ll finish with an incredibly huge—and unprecedentedly indulgent—TV set.

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Cambridge Audio Launches BMR-Equipped Aero 6 Tower Speaker
Brent Butterworth  |  Sep 26, 2013  |  0 comments

Cambridge Audio has been dinking around with Balanced Mode Radiator (BMR) drivers for a couple of years in its pint-sized Minx speakers, but now it's bringing BMR into the spotlight with a new line of full-size speakers built for conventional home theater and stereo applications.

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CEA-2010: A Good Baseline for Bass?
Brent Butterworth  |  Sep 05, 2011  |  0 comments

The way the audio industry has been measuring subwoofers for decades has turned out to be inadequate. But the new method they’ve come up with may be causing as much confusion as the old one.

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CEDIA Expo 2011: Speakers and Minisystems
Brent Butterworth  |  Sep 12, 2011  |  0 comments

From an audio standpoint, the CEDIA Expo used to be little more than a showcase for in-wall speakers and other products built mainly for multiroom systems and custom home theaters. But with the decline in home sales over the last few years, the custom market isn't so hot anymore.

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CEDIA Expo 2012: Compact and Portable Audio
Brent Butterworth  |  Sep 11, 2012  |  0 comments

The CEDIA Expo is supposed to be a showcase for custom home theater, multiroom sound, and home automation, but this year a lot of manufacturers didn’t seem to have read the rules. Instead of focusing on in-wall speakers or 12-channel amplifiers, they showcased wireless audio systems, desktop systems, and even headphones.

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CEDIA Expo 2012: New Soundbars
Brent Butterworth  |  Sep 10, 2012  |  0 comments

Even though soundbars were pioneered by midline speaker companies like Definitive Technology and Polk, TV companies such as Samsung and Vizio kinda took over the category with ~$300 self-powered models that you didn’t have to connect to a receiver.

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CEDIA Expo 2012: New Speakers
Brent Butterworth  |  Sep 10, 2012  |  0 comments

I go into every major audio/video trade show thinking I won’t hear much in the way of new speakers, yet every time I encounter new designs that leave me surprised at least and sometimes downright shocked. This year at the CEDIA Expo, I heard what is certainly one of the best audio demos I’ve ever heard — and maybe even the best.

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CEDIA Expo 2012: Under-TV Speaker Systems
Brent Butterworth  |  Sep 05, 2012  |  0 comments

Under-TV speakers should have taken off years ago. They give you all the benefit of a soundbar but they’re a lot easier to install. Just place one  under a flat-panel TV, connect a cable or two, and you have a reasonable facsimile of home theater sound in a matter of minutes.

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CEDIA Expo: Headphones from PSB and Paradigm?
Brent Butterworth  |  Sep 09, 2011  |  0 comments

The CEDIA Expo focuses on home theater sound, home automation, high-end video projection, and all sorts of toys for rich guys’ mansions. So I’m surprised to say that the first report I’m filing from the Expo is about headphones — a product that few custom installers even sell.

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CES 2011: Panasonic Talks TV Tech
Brent Butterworth  |  Jan 06, 2011  |  0 comments

Panasonic's CES 2011 press event was like a salad topped with a few perfectly seared pieces of tuna. The salad- i.e., the dull part - was lots of talk about 3D and Internet-connected TV. The seared tuna - i.e., the good part - was a list of improvements was can expect to see in Panasonic's already-awesome line of plasma TVs.

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