30
Sep
2011
Electronista: Bose has introduced its first sound bars for home theaters, the CineMate 1 SR and Lifestyle 135. Both offerings maintain the company’s focus on the high-end market, featuring compact speaker arrays built into a single sound-bar that can be placed in front of a television. The sound bars are paired with a wireless subwoofer to handle low frequencies. (more…)
19
Nov
2010
Born Rich: Olive Media Inc., known for its high-fidelity multi-room music systems, has now taken wraps off its flagship offering, the handcrafted Olive O6HD music server for home stereo systems. An upshot of over five years of design and innovation, the Olive O6HD music server offers an amazing experience that is more than 250 times the resolution of CDs. The top-mounted glass touchscreen is 10.1″ wide and offers 800 x 400 pixel resolution for easy navigation of the music library. The music library has capacity for up to 6,000 CDs in original quality or up to 20,000 high-definition tracks on the O6HD’s internal 2TB hard disk drive.
The O6HD features fully balanced differential DAC, with a matched pair of TI’s 24-bit/192 kHz DAC modules for the inverted and non-inverted signals on each of the right and left channels. The additional premium components include ultra-low jitter master clock, high-performance Sample Rate Converter and dedicated headphone DAC.
Available in black or silver, the new O6HD music server comes complete with remote control and Wi-Fi antenna. The O6HD music server is available in limited quantities directly from Olive for $4,999.
12
Nov
2010
Born Rich: The new BeoSound 8 from the house of Bang & Olufsen is undeniably one of the coolest and sexiest iPad/iPhone/iPod speaker docks we’ve ever seen. Taking your digital music experience to a completely new level, the BeoSound 8 iPhone dock features a manual room adaptation switch with three positions, so that you can place it anywhere without compromising the sound performance. The gorgeous iPhone dock can also accept music streamed wirelessly over Wi-Fi. To suit your liking, the BeoSound 8 comes in either black or white with aluminum details and matching power cord. The BeoSound 8 iPhone dock, featuring cone shaped speakers, will hit the shelves by the end of this month for $999.
01
Oct
2010
Born Rich: Setting-up a home theater room demands both money and knowledge. Unless you want a themed home theater room like some of the opulent home theaters we have earlier told you about, you won’t need anything beyond the Bose 46-Inch “VideoWave“ LCD TV that comes with 16 built-in speakers for the cinematic surround sound experience. The company is touting the innovative VideoWave 46″ backlit LCD as its most advanced product ever, the result of 10 years of research. The TV set uses “Phaseguide” technology, which makes it possible to link seven of those 16 speakers with a single, nanosecond timing system, which alternates the sound from each speaker for an omnidirectional sound effect.
In addition to the built-in 16 speakers, there are six compact subwoofers in a magnesium chassis, inside the TV which are placed facing each other, so that all the mechanical vibration cancels out for a rich bass. What makes handling this compact home theater in a simpler way is a universal remote that allows any device connected to the TV to be controlled via a simple onscreen interface. The VideoWave will retail for $5349 starting October 14th, exclusively at Bose stores only.
25
Jun
2010
Born Rich: DJ lovers can get the party started anytime, anywhere with the “Pioneer Pro – 1400 FLT” designed by a French design student, Vivier Raphael. The mobile DJ concept offers two configurations, a sober and classic to keep neutral during transport, the other focuses more on the event with LED devices. The DJ table console can house all the DJ equipment to serve your professional requirements, including headphones, CDs, plates and other DJ gear. So, get ready to hit the road along with your mobile disco.