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Click below to enter... http://www.revolutionhometheater.com/rhtcontest Classe CAM400 Monoblock Amplifier Reviewed Classe is one of the top ten most recognizable names in high-end audio history, with a respected lineage that goes back decades. Recently, Classe joined forces in, as some are calling it, a �slow takeover� of the company with the investment firm that owns and operates B&W loudspeakers and Rotel. Their first move was to hire one of Mark Levinson�s big gun executives, Dave Nauber, to run the show. Like Maserati, the newly-reconfigured Classe set out to significantly redesign every element of their product line, from the look of their products to functionality to dealer networks and beyond. Their goal, and I am one who believes they will be successful in this, is to elevate Classe from a Top 10 AV company to one of the most elite brands in the world. One of the new Classe�s first offerings is a reference-level monoblock amplifier system for high-end audio and home theater use. The CA-M400s are 400-watt-per-channel amps that can be placed in the traditional location beside your speakers or rack-mounted as a part of an ultimate theater system in a 5.1, 6.1, 7.1 or beyond configuration. Normally, the feature set of an amplifier is pretty simple � they power any number of your speakers at a reported watt-per-channel level. In the case of the CA-M400s, their amps do a little more. Click below to read the review... http://www.avrev.com/equip/classecam400/ Read more multi-channel amp reviews below... http://www.avrev.com/equip/multichannelamps.html Check out the AVR review archives... http://www.avrev.com/equip/equipmain.shtml Revolution Home Theater Film Reviews Hitch Reviewed by Abbie Bernstein Rating: Three Stars Any movie that has the good sense to open with Sam Cooke�s grin-inducing �(What a) Wonderful World� (that�s the �Don�t know much about history� song, not to be confused with Louis Armstrong�s �I see skies of blue, trees of green� ballad) is off to a good start. A lot of the time, the new romantic comedy �Hitch� coasts on this sort of good feeling, gently getting us to grin, but if it doesn�t often soar to comedic heights, it never dips below a certain comfort level, either. It is, in a word, pleasant. Will Smith plays the title character, Alex �Hitch� Hitchens, a Manhattan dating consultant known as �the love doctor,� so secretive that he�s widely assumed to be an urban myth. His current big project is coaching shy accountant Albert (Kevin James) in wooing seemingly unattainable heiress Allegra Cole (Amber Valletta). Meanwhile, Hitch is smitten with Sara Melas (Eva Mendes), a beautiful woman he sees in a bar. Smooth, witty and persistent, Hitch manages to get the romantically cynical Sara to agree to go out with him. The date is something of a fiasco, but Sara is taken enough with Hitch to go for a second round, albeit with an ulterior motive. Hitch, like the audience, is aware that Sara is a gossip columnist for a major newspaper. What he doesn�t realize � rather naively, given the range of knowledge his specialized job calls for � is that Sara is professionally interested in writing about Allegra and therefore starting to look into the new man in Allegra�s life. It doesn �t take Allegra long to learn there�s a connection between Albert and Hitch � but what is it? Click below to read the full review... http://www.revolutionhometheater.com/movies/revs/hitch.shtml Meridian Leader in Digital Home Theater Technology, Adds Powerful New Room Correction System First to identify jitter, first to offer an audiophile CD player, and first with a digital surround processor, Meridian Audio is the acknowledged leader in digital home theater technology. In a ground-breaking new upgrade to their flagship 861 processor, Version 4 adds unique Meridian Room Correction, automatically measuring room resonances and controlling them with powerful DSP. The result: smoother room response and a stunning improvement in sound. Visit http://www.avrev.com/splashpage/meridian.html or call 404-344-7111 for more details. Revolution Home Theater Featured DVD Reviews Read Two More Will Smith DVD Reviews on RHT... Ali Fame is usually a relative thing � people can be stars in their field among their peers and/or to those interested in their area of expertise, while being unknown commodities to the rest of the world. Director Michael Mann may be a case in point. While the Oscar-nominated (for 1999�s "The Insider") filmmaker is well known to everyone who cares about movies, he�s not necessarily a household name to those who don�t follow cinema. Sometimes, though, there are individuals who transcend this rule. A person can be completely indifferent to boxing and still recognize the name and face of world champion Muhammad Ali. Mann�s film about "the Champ," entitled simply "Ali," is at times a fascinating but confusingly structured biographical drama. Click below to read the full review... http://www.avrev.com/dvd/revs/ali.shtml The Legend of Bagger Vance Wealthy people like, oh, say, Robert Redford don't seem to understand a basic precept of sports-as-metaphor-for-life, at least in terms of movies. Any sport that requires a great deal of very expensive equipment to play, such as skiing, SCUBA diving or golf, is not going to be very convincing as such a metaphor, because the public, for the most part, rarely plays such sports. Rich people do. (Yes, I know there are exceptions.) A stand-in for life needs to be something anyone can relate to, and something to which they formed an attachment since childhood. Basketball requires (a) a basket and (b) a ball; baseball requires (a) a bat and (b) a ball; football requires (a) a ball. (Soccer is much the same.) Almost any kid can meet these minimal requirements, and many do, so these sports seep into people's souls. Click below to read the full review... http://www.avrev.com/dvd/revs/baggervance.shtml Check out our DVD review archive. Click below... http://www.revolutionhometheater.com/dvd/main.shtml Richard Gray's Power Company: Have you received your FREE A/V System Evaluation from Richard Gray's Power Company yet? Not happy with the performance of your audio and video components? How's your power? Send Richard Gray's Power Company a profile of your audio/video system and they can recommend the most ideal placement of Richard Gray's Power Company products with your equipment to maximum performance benefits. Find out how your power is today. 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