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Enter to Win the February Sweepstakes on Revolution Home Theater This month, RHT teamed up with Integra to give away a DTR-5.5 7.1 channel receiver and DPS-5.5 single-disc progressive scan DVD player. Enter to win an Integra DVD player and receiver today. Click below to enter... http://www.revolutionhometheater.com/rhtcontest Contest Winner! Congratulations to John Valvano of NH who won an Audiophile APS 700 last month... AVRev.com Lead Story The Ugly Divorce of FM Radio and the Music Industry In terms of marriages, the relationship between FM radio and the music industry was a long and successful one for more than 30 years. Today, emotions and business models are shattered, with both sides wondering what went wrong when things had been so good. Traditional terrestrial radio�s relationship with the record industry has been a mutually beneficial one that allowed the music industry to grow at unseen levels from the mid-�60s until the mid-�90s, resulting in a business that at its peak was selling in the neighborhood of 30 billion dollars of merchandise per year. Radio at the time was flying high like a dot com CEO the morning of his IPO. Thanks to Congress, radio was in the process of going from being a highly regulated industry to being highly deregulated, which allowed the acquisition of more than 1,000 radio stations by the same company when the historic limit was that one company could own was a total of seven FM, seven AM and seven TV stations. Radio�s feeding fr enzy created zillionaires and gigantic players like Clear Channel and Infinity/Viacom. But it was specifically this unprecedented success and the arrogance it created that ate away what was left of the long-lasting marriage between radio and the music business. Click below for more... http://www.avrev.com/news/0205/17.radiorecords.html Featured Equipment Review Audiophile APS PurePower 1050 In the exciting world of AC power regeneration, there is a new player on the scene who at $2,495 has a battery backup and gets your system completetely off the AC grid. See if it can help cure your system's ills. Click below to read the review... http://www.avrev.com/equip/audiophileaps1050/ Click below for the AC power review archive... http://www.avrev.com/equip/acpower.html Anthony Gallo Acoustics The Reference3 Speaks For Itself "... Not since the Vandersteen 2 has a loudspeaker come on to the audio scene with such assuredness of success. Not since the Vandy has a speaker so outpaced the competition in terms of quality and value at its price point as has this Gallo loudspeaker." Martin DeWolf - Bound For Sound "... This speaker combines so much unconventional thinking, novel applications and build quality in such a balanced, physically compact but sonically gargantuan and full-range design, and for such an exceedingly fair price that some drastic measure of formal recognition was required to truly separate it out from the crowds that make up the $3,000 - $10,000 floorstanding speaker field." Srajan Ebaen - sixmoons.com Click below to visit Anthony Gallo Acoustics. http://www.avrev.com/splashpage/anthonygallo.html There's a real BOB behind every Sunfire product. Ever seen a photo of Ronnie Rotel or Dick Denon? Unlike huge faceless corporations, Sunfire is the unique, personal vision of one audio genius, Bob Carver. Most audio geniuses would be content to have founded just two landmark audio companies. But after creating Phase Linear and Carver Corporation, Bob still had more innovative technology in his system. He wanted to express these ideas in meticulously-built, premium audio products that would offer exceptional value and sound quality. And that's what you get when you buy Sunfire. A great product from the mind and soul of Bob Carver. http://www.avrev.com/splashpage/sunfire.html NAD PowerDrive - So smart, it knows what your speakers are thinking They say that knowledge is power. So when it comes to reacting to the constantly fluctuating power needs of today's loudspeakers, an A/V receiver has to be very smart indeed. Most A/V receivers fail the test and you hear distortion. NAD's dual-rail power supply knows when your speakers need extra help to deliver clean, undistorted sound. The result is honor roll performance for your movies and music. Visit your nearest NAD dealer or do your homework at: http://www.avrevcom/splashpage/nad.html UNIDISK SC Integrated Universal Disc Player The UNIDISK SC player is a complete precision-engineered, high-fidelity audio and video source component with integrated surround-sound processing and control. The latest product to feature Linn�s SILVER DISK ENGINE� universal disc playing technology, the UNIDISK SC player is designed to facilitate access to all the new high-definition music and movie formats and deliver superb high-quality multi-channel playback. UNIDISK SC is a complete pitch-accurate AV source and control product offering by far the highest standards of performance and easily the best value product on the market. A new generation of Linn multi-channel product, UNIDISK SC provides all you need to access and control music and movies across all quality audio and video formats. Only Linn�s integrated design and manufacturing capability can deliver such advanced technology.The UNIDISK SC is simply the most significant integrated product from Linn. Visit Linn to learn more:: http://www.avrev.com/splashpage/linn.html More AVRev.com News Klipsch Audio Acquires Jamo - Klipsch Audio has purchased the brand name and assets of privately held Danish speaker company Jamo A/S. The Jamo assets will become a new wholly owned subsidiary of Klipsch Audio Inc. and will operate under the name of Jamo International Aps; both will operate as separate companies. Click below for more... http://www.avrev.com/news/0205/17.klipsch.html AMX Acquired by Holding Company - AMX Corp. and Duchossois Industries Inc. have entered into a definitive agreement under which an affiliate of Duchossois will acquire AMX. AMX will continue to be headquartered in Richardson, Texas... Click below for more... http://www.avrev.com/news/0205/17.amx.html Paradigm Updates Its Monitor Series With Sonic Advances and Comtemporary New Look - Paradigm has updated its popular Monitor Series to provide amazing performance with a contemporary new look, designed to blend with today�s lifestyle A/V equipment. The Monitor Series v.4 features high-performance film capacitors in an optimized high-current design... Click below for more... http://www.avrev.com/news/0205/18.paradigm.html Screen Research Introduces New Screen Sizes Up to 22.5' Wide - Screen Research has announced hundreds of new products that are currently available through their North American distributor, StJohn Group. Click below for more... http://www.avrev.com/news/0205/16.screenresearch.html AVRev.com Music Reviews Grateful Dead - American Beauty DualDisc How do you review an album that�s 35 years old (really?!?), has worldwide appeal and is generally thought of as the best studio album by one of rock�s greatest acts? Well, I�m about to do it � American Beauty by The Grateful Dead was first released to the world in November, 1970. This has become one of the most classic albums in rock history and certainly one of the many highlights in that long strange trip known as The Grateful Dead. I don�t know how many times I�ve listened to this album in the past, but it became one of my personal favorites right away. 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