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Michael Gaughn

My Blue Heaven

Any audio/video nut will want to check out Blue Man Group's new sight-and-sound spectaculars in Las Vegas and Toronto

Blue Man Group founders Matt Goldman, Phil Stanton, and Chris Wink (shown sans face paint at right) have been busy little performance artists since we talked to them for last April's "Blue Men Exposed," opening a spectacular surround so

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Installations: Custom Fit

Tailoring a system to the needs of a husband, a wife, three kids, and a really big house
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Super Audio CD Goes Surround

SACD goes from two to six channels — and head to head with DVD-Audio.

Perfect sound forever. Well, some people will tell you that the compact disc doesn't offer either. Diehard audiophiles complained from the day the CD was first introduced that it sounded cold, metallic, and sterile compared with the LP. And the discs can deteriorate over time, if ever so slowly.

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Installations: The Home of Tomorrow is Here!

No, really. We have seen the future, and it's in Columbus, Ohio.

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Installations: Oliver Stone's Radical Cinema

Watch as the fearless cultural warrior conquers his home theater!

Here's a predictable plot: A world-famous director buys a mansion in the Hollywood Hills and immediately demands that his underlings bring forth a traditional screening room - an opulent show-place, sealed off from the rest of the house, complete with a hulking projector, Voice of the Theater-type speakers, leather recliners on shag-covered risers, red velvet curtains, and a touchscreen rem

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Home Theater Hideaway

One solution to the age-old dilemma of how to rock out in the middle of the night.

You wouldn't know it to look at the "mine's bigger than yours" installations featured in some home theater magazines, but having a decent amount of money to spend on a whole-house audio/video system doesn't necessarily translate into gaudy opulence. Or, to put it another way, modesty isn't always dictated by a limited budget.

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Installations: An Installer's Life

Four installations, a half-dozen service calls, a guy with a midlife crisis, and a megastar rapper - it's just another day out of the office for a custom installer.

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CD Review: Jennifer Warnes

Famous Blue Raincoat - The Songs of Leonard Cohen: 20th Anniversary Edition Shout!
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Q&A with Director Peter Farrelly

While wrapping up an article on director Peter Farrelly's adventures trying to get a high-end movie room installed ("Heartbreak Home Theater"), I had a chance to talk to Farrelly about his new movie, The Heartbreak Kid, and about filmmaking in general.

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