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Yamaha YSP-1 Digital Sound Projector
- By Ken C. Pohlmann
- Posted May 1, 2005
Although many manufacturers claim their products are revolutionary, the truth is that most audio/video components are fairly generic. DVD players, surround receivers, and even speakers tend to be interchangeable parts of your system. It's rare - very rare - that a truly unique product comes along, one that radically departs from the norm.

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Paradigm Cinema 110 Compact Theater Speaker System
- By Rich Warren
- Posted April 13, 2005
The soundtrack from the DVD of last year's King Arthur offers up barbarous sonic attacks and thrilling surround effects. The latest speaker release from Paradigm, the Cinema 110 Compact Theater, delivers some pretty exciting surround effects as well. But could this value-priced system produce truly civilized sound from King Arthur's medieval mayhem?

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Right On!

Plasma-friendly on-wall speaker systems from Atlantic Technology, Klipsch, and Magnepan
- By Daniel Kumin
- Posted April 6, 2005
Santa squeezed an awful lot of flat-panel TVs down an awful lot of chimneys last year. (He bends the space-time continuum, that's how.) And as those lucky households recover from holiday bills, thoughts are turning to sleek on-wall speaker systems to finish the job.

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Mirage Nanosat Home Theater Speaker System
- By Rich Warren
- Posted March 1, 2005
While the satellite speakers in Mirage's Nanosat system aren't actually made with cutting-edge nanotechnology, they are extremely small by any ordinary standard - less than 6 inches high and just over 4 inches wide and deep.

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Boston Acoustics Plasma Series Home Theater Speakers
- By Daniel Kumin
- Posted February 24, 2005
Until some enterprising soul invents a software-defined virtual speaker, designers of real speakers will keep trying to make them less obtrusive. That's certainly the idea behind Boston Acoustics' P400, star of the company's Plasma Series.

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Mordaunt-Short Genie Home Theater Speaker System
- By Al Griffin
- Posted January 12, 2005
Not long ago, someone figured out it was possible to get good sound from small, inexpensively made speakers - and ever since, the home theater scene has been dominated by compact six-piece rigs that sell for a thousand bucks or less.

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Infinity TSS-1100 Home Theater Speaker System
- By Rich Warren
- Posted December 22, 2004
A few minutes into Cold Mountain, a U.S. Civil War version of The Odyssey , the Union Army detonates massive explosives hidden beneath a Confederate encampment. To say that I flinched would be an understatement - diving for cover was more like it.

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Canton CD 300 Home Theater Speaker System
- By Rich Warren
- Posted November 17, 2004
Normally, speakers don't jazz me out of the box - I gotta hear them first. But Canton 's CD 300 speaker system, which combines technology from the company's high-end Karat series with the sleek design of its smaller CD 100 model, primed the adrenaline pump even before I connected the speakers to my receiver.

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Home Theater on a Budget

Speaker systems from Energy, Hsu Research, and JBL show that surround sound doesn’t have to be expensive to be good
- By Daniel Kumin
- Posted October 16, 2004
No, these aren't HTiB systems - home theaters in a box. You'll need to add more than just a TV to them before you can kick back and enjoy a movie theaterlike experience at home.

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Seismic Subs

A dozen subwoofers to rock your world
- By Tom Nousaine
- Posted September 26, 2004
The day has finally arrived when you can legitimately call yourself a Home Theater Enthusiast. You've got your HDTV, and you've upgraded from a nice enough home-theater-in-a-box system to a decent set of surround speakers.

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Extreme Bass
- Posted September 24, 2004
Most people will think twice before plunking down $500 to $1,000 on one of our ten subs for their home theaters. But if you love your bass and money's no object, there are subs out there for you, too - monster subs like Genelec's HTS6 ($7,750) and Velodyne's Digital Drive 1812 Signature Edition ($15,000) that are in a (whacky) class all by themselves.

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Definitive Technology BP7002 Home Theater Speaker System
- By Rich Warren
- Posted September 1, 2004
Looking for a good test DVD for Definitive Technology's BP7002 system, I settled on the swashbuckling Master and Commander. The commander, Jack Aubrey, portrayed by Russell Crowe, set sail in 1805 in this adaptation of Patrick O'Brian's historically accurate novel, but the special effects and sound quality are definitely 21st century.

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