Peter Pachal

Peter Pachal | Feb 06, 2007

CHEST-THUMPING SOUND You'd better be damn comfortable in your manliness before you hand your credit card over to buy a pair of FM-45s. The tower speakers from RBH stand almost 4 feet tall, and each has a pair of 8-inch woofers for intimidatingly deep bass. You may need to get the optional silver grilles ($70) just to make them look a bit more dainty.

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New Product: Velodyne SC-IW In-Wall Subwoofer

Peter Pachal | Feb 06, 2007

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laugh at the SC-IW's unconventional design, but installers will love it, since the slim sub (3.4 inches thick) is made to fit perfectly inside a 2 x 4-foot studded wall. The driver module (that's the small part) can fire up or down, with a scoop aiming the bass into the room.

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New Product: Gefen Home Theater Scaler Peter Pachal | Feb 06, 2007

SCALE IT UP After laying down some serious coin for a 1080p HDTV, you're going to want to make sure you feed that puppy nothing but the good stuff. That means con-verting all your video signals to that grandest of HD formats, which just happens to be the solitary mission of Gefen's Home Theater Scaler.

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New Product: McIntosh VP1000 Video Processor and AP1000 Audio Control Center Peter Pachal | Feb 06, 2007

GET YOUR TWEAK ON A first-ever for the high-end company, McIntosh's VP1000 video processor (top) has the goods to deliver two separate 1080p signals via HDMI. Control freaks will delight at the multitude of adjustments: Each input can store different picture settings for both output zones.

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New Product: Phase Technology Arté On-Wall Speaker Peter Pachal | Feb 05, 2007

CLEAR CENTER Nothing that special about supermodel-thin speakers (3.5 inches) made to match flat TVs . . . unless they're designed to give you three channels of sound from just two speakers.

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New Product: Denon AVR-2307CI A/V Receiver Peter Pachal | Feb 05, 2007

TRICKS FOR THE TRADE Denon threw that conspicuous "CI" into this receiver's product number to let you know it has some special tricks for custom installers. Trick 1: Source renaming, so your front panel doesn't just have to say "DVD" - call your player "Philips 721" or even "Ralph" if you want.

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New Product: Mitsubishi WD-57732 57-inch 1080p Rear-Projection DLP HDTV Peter Pachal | Jan 05, 2007

KALEID-O-SET In the modern TV world of huge screens and off-the-scale resolution, color matters more than ever. The palette in Mitsubishi's 57-inch 1080p set is run by a 6-Primary Color System, which creates the "subtractive" colors (cyan, magenta, and yellow) directly instead of mixing red, green, and blue.

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New Product: Philips Pronto TSU9600 Remote Control Peter Pachal | Jan 05, 2007