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Neil Young’s Pono: Waging Heavy Peace on Low-Rez Sound

Do we need yet another lossless audio format? That depends...
- By Leslie Shapiro
- Posted October 4, 2012
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Six months ago, we reported that Neil Young was going around talking about a crazy idea he had for a new music business model. He had some high-res, music-in-the-cloud idea that he thought would revolutionize the way people listen to music. Would it be the Segway of the music biz?

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CEDIA Expo 2012: New Speakers

From outdoor to over-the-top, an astounding array of new models
- By Brent Butterworth
- Posted September 10, 2012
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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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Tech Trends 2012: Two-Channel Rulers

Plain old stereo came roaring back at CES 2012.
- By Brent Butterworth
- Posted March 20, 2012
TRADITIONAL two-channel audio never went away. But there’s no denying that since the early ’90s, stereo has been overshadowed by home theater. Most of the audio industry devoted most of its effort to adding more speakers, more channels of sound, and more complexity to our systems.

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CES 2012: Random Audio Goodness

Highlights from the high-performance audio suites at the Venetian
- By Geoffrey Morrison
- Posted January 16, 2012
Poking around the Venetian for a few days at CES is one of the better activities possible at the show. Tons of amazing audio products fill dozens of rooms over multiple floors.

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Meridian Audio's new $3,000 bookshelf system
- By sandv blog
- Posted August 5, 2010
High-end audio company Meridian Audio has announced a new one-piece, bookshelf sound system wit

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Meridian to Sooloos: "Looks good. We'll buy it!"
- By sandv blog
- Posted December 5, 2008
Several days ago we ran a blog on Sooloos new Ensemble music server system. Looks like we weren't the only ones that liked the digital magic that Sooloos was cookin' up. In fact, Meridian liked it so much, they bought the company!

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Meridian demos $185K 10-megapixel projector
- By sandv blog
- Posted July 30, 2008
Last Tuesday, high-end audio/video company Meridian put on what was surely one of the most dazzling home video demos ever.

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It's All about the Music
- By sandv blog
- Posted September 7, 2007
I was at the CEDIA show this week wearing a path between the restroom and the press conference room of the Colorado Convention Center when I heard what sounded like a live guitar performance wafting out of Room 304. When I walked into the room and found no musicians, I wasn't surprised.

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Swingin' at the Vineyard with Pete Farrelly
- By sandv blog
- Posted August 8, 2007
Of all the directors I’ve ever talked to, no two have ever taken the same approach to watching movies at home — which isn’t too surprising, since each has had an extremely idiosyncratic approach to making movies.

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