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Acurus Pre-Pro Upgrade Supports 6 Height Speakers
Joe Palenchar  |  Sep 15, 2016  | 
Indy Audio Labs is upgrading its $8,500 Acurus ACT 4 home-theater pre-amp processor to support 7.3.6 and 9.3.2 speaker systems.
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Alcons Demos Pro-for-Home Theater Setup
Thomas J. Norton  |  Sep 16, 2016  | 
Alcons is a company new to me, but they went all out in a Pro-for-Home, home theater setup. The speakers were a complex assemblage, with pro mid and high frequency drivers, the latter claimed to be an extremely rugged ribbon...
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Atlantic Tech Goes Wireless With Google Cast
Joe Palenchar  |  Sep 15, 2016  |  First Published: Sep 16, 2016  | 
Speaker maker Atlantic Technology will complement its lineup of speakers and soundbars with its first wireless multiroom-audio speaker, which will feature Google Cast, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
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B&K Components Resurrected At CEDIA 2016
Joe Palenchar  |  Sep 14, 2016  | 
B&K Components, a venerable component-audio brand absent from the market for around six years, staged a comeback at CEDIA 2016 under a new owner who vowed to maintain the brand’s legacy of providing “high-quality electronics at reasonable prices.”
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B&O’s New TVs Offer Ultra HD Resolution, Wood
Al Griffin  |  Sep 16, 2016  | 
The BeoVision 14, a new Series of Ultra HDTVs unveiled by Danish manufacturer Bang & Olufsen today at its CEDIA press event, up the ante on the aesthetics front by providing an element not often seen in modern TV design: wood.
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Behind the Scenes With Barco's 4K Laser Projector
Al Griffin  |  Sep 16, 2016  | 
Thor, as we all know, is the hammer-wielding god from Norse mythology. Thor is also the name of Barco’s Residential’s flagship 4K projector, a refrigerator-size 4K DLP model that sells for nearly $400,000. Why would anyone pay that much for a video projector? Maybe you want the image in your home theater to not only match, but exceed the quality of your local cinema, even those RPX and ETX ones they charge a premium ticket price for.
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Bluesound Soundbar Offers Hi-Res TV Solution
Rob Sabin  |  Sep 16, 2016  | 
Bluesound, the hi-res compliant multiroom audio platform from Lenbrook, the makers of NAD audio electronics and PSB speakers, has added a critical new product at CEDIA in its first soundbar. Priced at $999 and available later this month, the Pulse Soundbar is designed for screens 42-inches or larger, and offers up a number of features that should please audiophiles who want to start building a Bluesound system or extend an existing system into the TV room.

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Bluesound Unveils First Hi-Res/MQA Soundbar
John Sciacca  |  Sep 17, 2016  | 
Bluesound added the latest products to its wireless BluOS ecosystem with the new Pulse Soundbar and Pulse Sub. Both models are meant to add easily to a BluOS audio system, but now bring improved TV audio into the mix.

The two-channel high resolution soundbar will support audio resolution up to 192/24-bit and also support Master Quality Authenticated (MQA) audio streaming, another first in the soundbar category...

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Bose 901: Most Successful Speaker of All Time?
Thomas J. Norton  |  Sep 17, 2016  | 
Bose doesn’t often attend CEDIA (or CES for that matter), so I was surprised to see them here. The emphasis here appeared to be on lifestyle or custom install products, noted in another blog. The pair of 901 Series 6 loudspeakers shown here were also on hand, but not playing. I haven’t followed that speaker for years, but...
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Bose Sats Get Even Smaller
Mark Fleischmann  |  Sep 16, 2016  | 
Bose aggressively downsized satellite speakers long before it became fashionable. The new Lifestyle 650 system continues the campaign with the OmniJewel, Bose's smallest satellite yet.

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Cambridge Aeromax Uses Flat BMR Driver
Mark Fleischmann  |  Sep 16, 2016  | 
The BMR flat-panel driver has been featured in several Cambridge Audio speaker lines. Its latest iteration is the Aeromax series.

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CEDIA 2016 Preview: Everybody’s Talking, But Is Alexa Listening?
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Sep 12, 2016  | 
Sound & Vision's coverage of CEDIA 2016 kicks off on Wednesday. As usual, our hard-working, no-time-for-partying crew will be posting daily so be sure to check back here as often as you can so you don’t miss any of the excitement.
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CEDIA Tech Guru Looks 5 Years Down the Road
Bob Ankosko  |  Sep 13, 2016  | 
Predicting the future is a risky business, but in his role as senior director of emerging technologies for the Custom Electronic Design and Installation Industry Association (CEDIA), Dave Pedigo is paid to keep a watchful eye on what’s coming down the pike and ferret out the products and trends most likely to impact the tech landscape in 5, 10, 15 years. We recently sat down with Pedigo to find out where he sees technology heading over the next five years.
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Control4 Updates to OS 2.9
John Sciacca  |  Sep 14, 2016  | 
Control4 Updates to OS2.9 Automation company, Control4, announced an update to its operating system today, moving from 2.8.2 to version 2.9. As with previous OS updates, this not only squashed bugs in the system but also introduced a slew of new features.

Control4 announced that it features integration support for nearly 10,000 devices, and OS 2.9 will enhance that experience with a new feature called “Connects with Control4.” Control4 is heavily invested in helping dealers deliver customized smart home experiences for its customers, and one of the ways they do this is by Simple Device Discovery Protocol (SDDP) that identifies a product and loads the correct driver. Currently 185 companies are shipping over 1,500 devices enabled with Control’s and the new program will feature QR codes on products that can be quickly scanned in to automatically identify and add the correct integration driver. This now includes products from Amazon, Lutron, Nest, Somfy, and Sonos.

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Datasat Drives Spectacular 9.4.4 DTS:X Demo
Al Griffin  |  Sep 16, 2016  | 
A big advantage of attending a show like CEDIA is getting the chance to hear demos of new object-based surround sound formats carried out with ultra-fancy high-end gear. One such demo of DTS:X was conducted by Datasat, a maker of surround processors and amps for professional digital cinemas and high-end home theaters.
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