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New Products
New Product: ZVOX 325 Surround Sound System
Peter Pachal  |  Oct 04, 2006  |  0 comments

SINGULAR SOUND Ever thought you'd see the day when you could harness the sound of a home theater from a single box? That day is today if you have the ZVOX 325, which crams an entire speaker system - amps, drivers, and sound processing - into one 17-inch-wide component.

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New Product: Zvox Mini Portable Speaker
Peter Pachal  |  Apr 03, 2006  |  0 comments

As convenient as it is to have music and video on things like iPods and cell phones, there are always times when you want some seriously big sound. That's where the Zvox Mini portable speaker ($200) can help.

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New Products: Artison LRS-IW Speaker In-Wall Surround Speaker
Peter Pachal  |  Feb 06, 2006  |  0 comments

Artison is all about melding speakers with home décor. No surprise, then, that it's now offering an in-wall surround speaker, the LRS-IW ($700 a pair). But this model has a couple of notable twists. First, it has a speaker enclosure that mounts inside the wall, so the wall cavity won't screw up its sound.

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New Products
New Products: July '08
Peter Pachal  |  Jun 20, 2008  |  0 comments

JVC Dual iPod docking station One of this month's new products - click here for pictures and details.

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Other Tech
NHT, Simple Devices Under Rockford Umbrella
Peter Pachal  |  Jan 08, 2003  |  0 comments
Rockford Corporation, which owns such brands as Rockford Fosgate, Lightning Audio, and MB Quart, used CES 2003 to showcase its newest member, NHT, and promote home-network products made by Rockford's new partner, SimpleDevices. Formerly owned by Recoton, speaker maker NHT used its CES limelight to promote its modular Evolution line and that line's latest addition, the on-wall L5 speaker.
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Other Tech
Oakley Thump MP3 Sunglasses
Peter Pachal  |  Oct 05, 2005  |  0 comments
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Plasma Partners
Peter Pachal  |  Aug 27, 2003  |  0 comments

Photo by Tony Cordoza In the future, people won't have to worry about speakers for their TVs. At least that's the message from most Hollywood filmmakers, who invariably depict future TVs as super-sharp wall-size screens with audio that comes out of thin air.

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S&V Picks
Peter Pachal  |  Apr 01, 2002  |  0 comments

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Satellite Radio Services Vie for Conquest of Space
Peter Pachal  |  Jan 08, 2003  |  0 comments
Declaring "it's about the music," Sirius satellite radio today unveiled its plans for 2003, which include dedicated home tuners and nine new music channels, while its competitor, XM Satellite Radio, touted its 360,000-strong subscriber base as evidence of its vitality.
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Setup Screwups
Peter Pachal  |  Mar 15, 2005  |  0 comments
The Short Form
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Mixed Signals

What's Wrong Everything's hooked up, but why is Gandalf's voice coming from the left surround speaker?

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