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Home Theater Geeks Podcast
Podcast 9: Mark Waldrep
Scott Wilkinson  |  Feb 09, 2010  |  Published: Feb 10, 2010
AIX Records and iTrax.com founder Mark Waldrep talks about what high-definition audio really means, multichannel music, Blu-ray as an audio medium, discs vs. downloads, digital vs. analog, and more.

Run Time: 1:12:11

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Premiere Design
Power Plant
Scott Wilkinson  |  May 04, 2009

As I wrote about the <A href="http://blog.ultimateavmag.com/ultimate-gear/more_power/">Perreaux &#233;loquence 250i</A>, it claims to be the world's most powerful stereo integrated amp, delivering up to 530 continuous watts/channel into 4&#937;. But that's nothing compared with a new monoblock power amp from <A href="http://www.goldmund.com">Goldmund</A>&#151;the Telos 5000, which delivers up to <I>5000</I> continuous watts into 2&#937; (2500W into 4&#937;, 1250W into 8&#937;).

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The Big Picture
Press Conference Hell
Scott Wilkinson  |  Sep 02, 2008

Dang! Tom Norton stole my thunder by blogging about the upcoming CEDIA Expo just one day before I was going to. Oh well, I can still add my two cents before I head off to Denver for the annual confab dedicated to custom consumer-electronics installation.

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Ask S&V
Primary Colors, Bi-Amping, DVRs
Scott Wilkinson  |  May 18, 2010  |  Published: May 19, 2010
Little Blue & Little Yellow
I've heard you talk about Sharp's new RGBY color system, and it started me thinking about something. I have always thought that red, blue, and yellow are the primary colors, and these colors can create any color there is. So why do TVs use RGB?
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Premiere Design
Prime Meridian
Scott Wilkinson  |  Aug 07, 2009
I clearly remember my first demo of Meridian's digital speakers at CEDIA several years ago. The star of that show was the company's first D-ILA projector, which looked fine, but I was even more impressed with the sound of those speakers.
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Premiere Design
Pro Audio Technology Programmable Modular Amplifier
Scott Wilkinson  |  Sep 16, 2010
One of the more interesting press releases to hit my inbox in anticipation of the CEDIA Expo next week was one announcing the Programmable Modular Amplifier (PMA) from Pro Audio Technology (formerly Professional Home Cinema or PHC). Aimed mainly at custom installations, this thing packs a highly configurable punch.
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CEDIA 2010
Procella Speaker Line
Scott Wilkinson  |  Sep 30, 2010
Procella Audio introduced its speaker line to the US market at last year's CEDIA Expo, but they are only now starting to ship here. The P815 ($10,000 each), leftmost in the photo above, consists of two sealed cabinets—one for a 15-inch woofer and the other for a 8-inch midrange and 1-inch compression tweeter in a custom-designed waveguide—and each cabinet is powered with 700W of onboard class-D amplification. The passive P8 ($2600 each) and P6 ($1600 each)—hanging on the wall in this photo—both sport the same 1-inch compression driver with an 8-inch and 6.5-inch woofer, respectively.

A trio of powered subwoofers includes the P18 ($10,000) with dual 18-inch drivers and 700Wx2, P15 ($6000) with dual 15-inch drivers and 350Wx2, and P10 ($4000) with dual 10-inch drivers and 350Wx2.

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CEDIA 2009
Procella Speakers
Scott Wilkinson  |  Sep 03, 2009

You've never heard of Procella speakers? Neither had I until I got a press release about their US debut at CEDIA. This truly global company started in England, moved to Australia, and is now based in Sweden. The lineup includes three L/C/R/S speakers and three dual-driver, dual-amp, sealed-box subwoofers ranging in price from $1500 to $9000 each. The flagship P815 pictured here combines the P8, which features an 8-inch woofer and 1-inch compression driver at the apex of a custom elliptical waveguide, with the P15 sub, which sports twin 15-inch drivers and 350W amps.

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CEDIA 2010
Procella THX-Certified Demo Room
Scott Wilkinson  |  Sep 30, 2010
Audio demos at trade shows are nearly impossible to conduct without noise from the show floor intruding. And hotel rooms are hardly ideal venues, either. So it was with great fanfare that Procella announced it would have the world's first THX-certified demo room at CEDIA. The free-standing room was first assembled and certified off-site, then broken down and reassembled—and re-certified—in the convention hall.
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The Big Picture
Projection Problems
Scott Wilkinson  |  Mar 02, 2008

It seems our readership extends far beyond the USA. Here's a question from Helcio in Brazil:

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