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Desktop Deity: Serene Audio Talisman Speaker
Bob Ankosko  |  Oct 23, 2015
It might take a minute to process what you’re looking at. Those squiggly figures are not pieces from a life-size puzzle, and you won’t find them in the gift shop at Muir Woods (or some other rustic destination). Nope. What you see is the brainchild of Sia Rezaei, who had been building speakers as a hobby until he took on the challenge of making “some awesome desktop speakers” back in 2010.
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Give Your TV a Lift
Bob Ankosko  |  Oct 22, 2015
Walking the aisles of last week’s CEDIA Expo I stumbled upon the Whisper II TV lift from Touchstone of Exton, PA.
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Acurus Announces State-of-the-Art ACT 4 Processor
Bob Ankosko  |  Oct 21, 2015
Indy Audio Labs (IAL), keeper of the iconic Acurus and Aragon brands, has announced production of the Acurus ACT 4, a state-of-the-art preamp/processor featuring Dolby Atmos and DTS:X surround processing that fueled a number of riveting immersive surround demos at the recent CEDIA Expo.

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Monitor Audio Debuts High-Performance In-Walls
Bob Ankosko  |  Oct 20, 2015
Monitor Audio has applied knowhow from its flagship line of freestanding speakers to the new CP-IW260X and CP-IW460X speakers, which use the company’s latest drivers in a “super compact” three-way in-wall configuration only 4 inches deep.
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Jaymar Adds Shake, Rattle, and Roll to Movies
Bob Ankosko  |  Oct 18, 2015
It’s been a few years since I checked out motion seating (had a butt massage) at an electronics tradeshow so I stopped by the Jaymar booth at CEDIA 2015 to experience the “world premiere of new luxury D-Box motion-enabled seating.”
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TruAudio Subterranean Sub Pounds the Ground
Bob Ankosko  |  Oct 17, 2015
The bright green fiberglass-reinforced plastic enclosure of the Subterrain-12 caught my eye as I walked the aisles of CEDIA 2015. Designed to be buried 3 feet under, the subterranean subwoofer has a 12-inch driver that vents through a mushroom dome that blends nicely into landscaped areas.
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Comcast Cozies up with Custom Installers, Adds Atmos
Bob Ankosko  |  Oct 17, 2015
You might not expect to see Comcast exhibiting at CEDIA but the company is here promoting the latest wrinkle to its Xfinity X1 platform—a rack-mountable box for custom installers.
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Triad Shows Atmos-Enabled In-Wall Speaker
Bob Ankosko  |  Oct 16, 2015
The race is on to see who will be first to market with a Dolby Atmos-enabled in-wall speaker. As noted in yesterday’s report, SpeakerCraft is staging an impressive demo of its working Atmos 100 Height Module here at CEDIA 2015. A few aisles away, Triad has its own Atmos-enabled module, the cleverly named InWall Height Module.
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James Loudspeaker Demos Hideaway Small Aperture Speakers
Bob Ankosko  |  Oct 16, 2015
You can’t walk too far through the aisles of CEDIA without running into an in-wall/ceiling speaker—and nearly all of them look alike. James Loudspeaker takes a different approach with its Small Aperture architectural speakers—like the $1,500 63SA-4—which produces full-range sound from a 3 x 3-inch square (or round) cutout in the wall (or ceiling). The cutout is, of course, neatly concealed by an inconspicuous flush-mount grille.
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New Entertainment & Connected Home Technologies Fuel Growth in Custom Installation
Bob Ankosko  |  Oct 16, 2015
The custom installation business is thriving as a growing number of American homeowners integrate high-end home entertainment, lighting control, and whole home control and security systems into their homes, according to the findings of CEDIA’s annual industry survey.
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