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Shack, BBY Look to Adapt
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 18, 2018
Left for dead at the side of the road, RadioShack is still twitching. Following its latest bankruptcy filing, it has emerged with a reorganization plan that would mix an online presence with 400 independently owned dealerships and 27 company-owned stores in Colorado, Texas, and New York. Eight new RadioShacks have recently opened, and another 18 are being considered. However, RadioShack probably will not return to the days when it lived in a $200 million HQ in Fort Worth, overseeing an empire of 7,000 stores nationwide.
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Definitive Technology Demand Series D11 Speaker System Review
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 17, 2018

Demand Series D11 Speaker System
Performance
Build Quality
Value

SuperCube 6000 Subwoofer
Performance
Features
Build Quality
PRICE 3,196

AT A GLANCE
Plus
Appealing neutral voicing
Laterally offset tweeter
Active 8-inch sub integrated in center speaker
Minus
D11 top radiators complicate placement of Atmos add-ons

THE VERDICT
The Demand Series lives up to Definitive Technology’s pedigree with satisfying, well-balanced sound that offers loads of resolution.

Nature abhors a vacuum, but wasting cabinet real estate is standard operating procedure among loudspeaker designers. With the notable exception of Atmos-enabled speakers and the occasional tweeter pod, the top panel of most speakers is a blank nothing. But does it have to be that way? Definitive Technology answered no, in effect, with its original Studio Monitor Series of bookshelf/stand-mount speakers (circa 2012) and does so again in this new update, the Demand Series.

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CES 2018
SVS Prime Wireless Defeats Tyranny of Phone
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 09, 2018  |  Published: Jan 10, 2018
Don't you hate it when your phone battery runs out when you're in the middle of streaming "In a Gadda Da Vida"? That won't happen with the SVS Prime Wireless. You can start a stream from the six presets on the front panel.

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CES 2018
NAD Bows Revised Version of Mini-Amp
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 09, 2018  |  Published: Jan 10, 2018
NAD has revised the amp section and added a cool new feature to the D 3020 V2 DAC-amp, the second version of the modern version of the legendary analog 3020 stereo integrated amp.

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CES 2018
Technics Table System Sounds Big
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 09, 2018  |  Published: Jan 10, 2018
The cones that support the Technics Ottava SC-C70 enable a down-firing subwoofer to beef up the bass, giving this modest but good-looking tabletop system a big, full sound.

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CES 2018
Kanto Goes Wide
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 09, 2018  |  Published: Jan 10, 2018
The latest Kanto product to use the name Syd (whose significance has yet to be explained) adopts a horizontal form factor.

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CES 2018
Lights Out at LVCC
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 10, 2018
It was lights out at the Las Vegas Convention Center today.

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CES 2018
Onkyo and Pioneer Show High-Res Players
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 10, 2018
Onkyo and Pioneer, now corporately joined at the hip, both showed high-resolution digital audio players. They have similarities and differences.

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CES 2018
Here's Another Look at Polk's Command Bar
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 10, 2018
Yesterday's story about the press conference introducing the Polk Command Bar didn't really show it at its best.

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CES 2018
ATI Goes Dirac
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 10, 2018
ATI's new ATP16 surround preamp-processor is among the growing number with Dirac room correction.

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