http://www.audioholics.com/news/on-location-articles/rss.xml Audioholics takes you, the consumer, into the inner workings of some of the industry's hottest companies. We give you the advanced scoop on new products and what makes some of these manufacturers tick. hourly 12 2006-12-01T00:00 http://www.audioholics.com/static/logo.jpg http://www.audioholics.com/ http://www.audioholics.com/news/on-location-articles/boston-acoustics-on-location How often does a company claim to "reinvent" itself? And how many times is it actually true? Boston Acoustics is making a lot of changes - dropping most of their speaker lines, dropping many of their accessory products, and even dropping the "Acoustics" from their name. Reinvention? Absolutely. The new face of Boston was unveiling to us and reported directly to you. tom 2007-09-10T10:45:57+00:00 Editorial http://www.audioholics.com/news/on-location-articles/bang-olufsen-on-location Bang & Olufsen has been around for many, many years - probably a lot more than many American's would realize. Founded in 1925 by Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen, the two had an idea that radios should run on the "mains" (line voltage ran to the home) rather than on batteries. tom 2006-11-29T00:00:00+00:00 Editorial http://www.audioholics.com/news/on-location-articles/audioholics-on-location-3-axiom-audio Axiom Audio is a company that needs little introduction since they are so well branded among the well- informed home theater crowd passionate about purchasing products that live up to their reputation - with none of the BS often found in high end audio. Gene 2006-09-28T00:00:00+00:00 Editorial http://www.audioholics.com/news/on-location-articles/on-location-with-audyssey-laboratories Nearly two years ago we were introduced to a revolutionary room equalization system called Audyssey which was soon to be debuted in the up and coming AVR-5805 receiver flagship from Denon. Prior to reviewing this new super receiver, we sent one of our freelance writers, Patrick Hart , to Audyssey Labs for a first hand demo of their new system. Gene 2006-09-25T00:00:00+00:00 Editorial http://www.audioholics.com/news/on-location-articles/audioholics-on-spot-location-apc-av Over the last 20 years, APC has been a pioneer in the development of new power protection technologies, resulting in countless industry awards, design patents and an installed base numbering in the tens of millions of units. Multiple R&D centers, along with APC-owned and controlled factories, have helped ensure that APC solutions are the safest, most advanced, and reliable available. When you buy APC, you buy "peace of mind". Gene 2006-08-22T00:00:00+00:00 Editorial http://www.audioholics.com/news/on-location-articles/denon-boston-acoustics-line-show-overview This year the Denon and Boston Acoustics Summer Line Show was held in Cleveland, OH, at the Ritz Carlton. The press event began at noon in the Century Restaurant, where we ate with Denon and Boston Acoustics executives. jclarke 2006-07-26T00:00:00+00:00 Editorial http://www.audioholics.com/news/on-location-articles/home-theater-cruise-panel-2-setting-a-new-surround-sound-standard We spent about 2.5 hours in an unexpectedly grueling session with renowned recording engineers Chuck Ainlay, Ed Cherney, Frank Filipetti, George Massenburg, Elliot Scheiner, and Al Schmitt (as well as host Gary Reber from Widescreen Review magazine.) Gene 2005-11-09T00:00:00+00:00 Editorial http://www.audioholics.com/news/on-location-articles/home-theater-cruise-day-1 We're here at the 4th annual Home Theater Cruise (our first) and have to say, the weather has done its best… clint 2005-10-31T00:00:00+00:00 Editorial http://www.audioholics.com/news/on-location-articles/audioholics-on-spot-location-rbh-sound Though RBH Sound isn't yet a household name that people relate to as they do Sony TVs or Ken more Refrigerators, they are one of the oldest speaker companies in the USA still run and operated by the original founder - Roger Hassing. In 1976 RBH Sound produced its first loudspeaker. RBH soon began to OE M for McIntosh, (back in the days of Gordon Gow), providing cabinets for their speakers. This set the stage for doing a superb job since McIntosh didn't worry about how to cheapen the product, but to make it better and, at least at the time, class leading in performance. Gene 2005-09-02T00:00:00+00:00 Editorial http://www.audioholics.com/news/on-location-articles/audioholics-on-spot-location-factory-tour-2-of-axiom-audio We questioned Ian about the Axiom testing procedures in accordance to NRC standards. He informed us that Axiom first tests its products at the NRC in Ottawa and then take those "golden units" to their mini anechoic chamber to run baseline measurements. Axiom then compares all production models to the reference "golden unit" to ensure they measure within ±1dB. Gene 2005-08-04T00:00:00+00:00 Editorial http://www.audioholics.com/news/on-location-articles/denon-summer-conference-2005-2013-wrap-up The Denon Press Conference was a very enjoyable experience that we were greatly honored to be a part of. It's always a pleasure to provide coverage of companies such as Denon that are repetitively innovative in their product engineering and design approach. While we were a bit disappointed to hear of no new developments on their much anticipated separates packages, we certainly understood their delay. With the advent of HD DVD, the format battle between HD-DVD and Blu- Ray , indecisiveness of digital transmission protocols, and new supportive surround formats such as Dolby Digital Plus (and the fact that Dolby labs is NOT licensing this technology until next year) the product release delay makes a lot of sense nobody wants to have an obsolete product 6 months after its release, right?) Rest assured however, that the Denon separates solutions, when released, will be as innovative and perhaps as much as a quantum leap in technology for the separates marketplace as the AVR-5805 was to receivers. Until that day, we will just have to settle for the AVR-5805 as being the trend-setter for both preamp/processors and receivers. clint 2005-07-18T00:00:00+00:00 Editorial http://www.audioholics.com/news/on-location-articles/denons-new-2005-dvd-player-lineup Denon announced some new DVD players during their 2005 Summer Conference at Amelia Island and it looks like a couple a new players are really agressively targeting the competition. The biggest thing we noticed were the new DVD-1920 and DVD 756S which provide a Faroudja FLi2301 chip along with HDMI 1.1 with digital bass management. An aluminum front panel and parallel 480i video output (concurrent with HDMI) make these very impressive players for only $349. clint 2005-07-15T00:00:00+00:00 Editorial http://www.audioholics.com/news/on-location-articles/new-denon-htr-receivers-conference-day-3 Similar to the new AVR Series but less custom features such as added multi room sources, the HTR represents their high value line up for folks whose primary focus is on the main zone of audio - the theater room if you will. Gene 2005-07-14T00:00:00+00:00 Editorial http://www.audioholics.com/news/on-location-articles/denon-s-series-home-theater-systems As the home theater-in-a-box market continues to grow (for example, it showed $800 million in sales this year as opposed to $450 million in sales for A/V receivers) it is apparently clear that consumers are very interested in small form factor 2-channel and home theater systems. Denon is addressing this market in full force with its new S-Series home theater pre-packaged systems. clint 2005-07-13T00:00:00+00:00 Editorial http://www.audioholics.com/news/on-location-articles/denon-2005-summer-conference-overview We started out the morning with breakfast in the Ritz-Carlton Ballroom. I don't often eat a good breakfast so custom omelettes and pastries were quite the treat (though I didn't see anyone who actually went for the salmon option that was presented). There are a lot of industry veterans at this conference, both in terms of installers and distributers - and we certainly haven't more than just a handful of people in the industry (most from New York in fact). clint 2005-07-12T00:00:00+00:00 Editorial http://www.audioholics.com/news/on-location-articles/new-denon-avr-series-receivers-for-2005 Denon is introducing some incredibly ambitious products in the next few months that have upgraded feature sets and pricing to put the rest of the market on notice. Gene 2005-07-12T00:00:00+00:00 Editorial http://www.audioholics.com/news/on-location-articles/axiom-audio-loudspeakers-factory-tour Axiom loudspeakers design philosophies adhere to their rigid scientific measurement standards and psychoacoustical testing protocols of the National Research Council (NRC). Axiom's founder, Ian Colquhoun, was a member of the founding group of researchers and has been involved with the NRC since 1980. Gene 2004-10-02T00:00:00+00:00 Editorial http://www.audioholics.com/news/on-location-articles/2003-yamaha-private-showing-of-new-products-part-1-of-2 Every year at about this time, the electronics division of Yamaha makes their way to the sunshine state ( Florida ) to showcase and demonstrate their latest product offerings to their exclusive dealers. This year, I was personally invited by Yamaha to take part in this event. Marketing Services Manager, Bruce Bernstein, contacted me to ensure I was planning on going and sweetened the deal by saying "We are gonna show you things that will make your head spin". With that in mind, I realized that I could not refuse and coordinated with their sales force to set up hotel accommodations for my wife and me. Since the show was in Ft. Lauderdale , only a five hour trip from my home in Tarpon Springs (really 4 hours in my 2002 Maxima!) no uncomfortable plane trip was required. clint 2004-06-23T00:00:00+00:00 Press Release