Are you ready for your flat screen TV to be the center of attention of your room? Some may be, but others are not. There are ways now to have your cake and eat it too, in the realm of thin LED TVs, with regards to the space it occupies. Prior to hanging your new essential electronic panel, think of a way to camouflage it so that your room flows, allowing you to maintain the style and class of your intricately decorated home. Here are a few ideas…

Seeing Is Believing:

There is nothing like looking in …

Yes it is that time of the year when lots of new goodies start rolling in for the fall. In the last couple of weeks I have told you about some new speakers from B&W and PSB; this week the news is from our partners at NAD.
We now have all 4 of the new Audio Video receivers, and this week we expect the new 3D Blu-Ray player!

There is a lot of exciting news on the receiver front…

First, the new T748, a real NAD A/V Receiver with 3D switching, the always amazing NAD sound quality …

Two researchers at DefCon in Las Vegas showed how they can hack into X10 and Z-Wave home automation systems that are connected to the homes power lines – and they did this with a handheld device.

These hackers showed how, using a network sniffer connected to the broadband network via an electrical outlet, they could manipulate 15 different neighbors’ lights, HVAC and security systems that communicate via the power line. They were successful only because the manufacturers did not adequately encrypt the data running on the network. They also showed how they were able to track …

We just received our first pairs of the brand new PSB Imagine Mini…this is one very cool mini-monitor.
For the few of you out there not sure who PSB is; they are Paul and Sue Barton speakers; from Canada. Paul is the creator of the company and head engineer, Sue is his wife. PSB has been making great speakers for a lot of years and this new speaker is a gem.

The Imagine Mini is a very small 2 way bookshelf speaker that just makes great sound. Every now and again a speaker comes along that just …

There are 2 new things from B&W to tell you about.

First, the new PM1 mini-monitor is here. This is an all new design in a stunning new cabinet with a curved front baffle and a beautiful dark wood finish. There is also an improved version of their already very good aluminum tweeter. They have added a Carbon re-enforcement ring at the base of the tweeter and added a new surround that is derived from the Diamond series which combine to move the first breakup point on the new tweeter to over 40K…well …

Lutron has recently added a temperature control system to the line of RadioRA 2 control systems to add convenience, flexibility and energy savings to your Lutron total home automation system.

The new temperature control system includes:

Thermostat featuring seeTemp™ Wall Control- This thermostat can be mounted in many different areas of your home that would normally not be suitable placement for a thermostat, such as exterior walls or areas that get a lot of sun.

Radio Powr Savr™ Temperature Sensor- This temperature sensor has the ability to be easily placed in any room of your home because of …

Sure, sure I know your home speakers are just fine. Ok, they do not look so good after all those college party’s…and actually the boxes are pretty dinged up; and come to think of it they are awfully big. I am sure your wife has mentioned this a time or two.
Most of you reading this have not even looked at new speakers for a whole lot of years…and speakers have changed… a lot.
 

 
You can replace your old speakers with new ones that are smaller, better looking, sound better, hang on the wall, fit on a …

We have a brand new McIntosh Theater system in our main room! It’s from the Westchester I collection and a resounding ‘WOW’ is all I can say about it. This thing flat out rocks! You simply must stop in to see and hear this system for yourself. It includes the XRT1K main speakers, XCS1K center speaker, and a pair of the XCS200K for rear surrounds. Powering it are three MC1.2KW – 1200 watt amps on each of the front three speakers and an MC452 at 450 watts per channel for the rear speakers. It is …

In 1949 Frank McIntosh and Gordon Gow began manufacturing high quality amplification products in direct defiance of what was believed to be possible at the time. They were among the pioneers of high-end audio, quickly established the McIntosh brand as a performance powerhouse and established a large following. They have maintained this through the decades by expecting the highest quality from every employee at every level and this is exactly what I experienced when I recently attended the McMasters training at their factory in Binghamton, New York.

Their course starts out with classroom education which …

The technology industry has basically consisted of two major players in the personal-computer realm – Apple and everyone else for the last 25 years now. Now the same is happening with smart phones; a product category defined more and more by competition between Apple’s iPhone and the crowd of manufacturers producing devices with the Google-Android software.
Unlike the Mac-PC wars, the battle between the iPhone and Android is in its early stages. Both Apple and Google (and its hardware partners) are trying to dominate the market in exactly the right way: by building the best possible …