Audio Video Revolution Email Update Congratulations! Randy Fickel of TX won an Apple iPod from the reader suvery last month...
Audio Video Revolution Monthly Contest The Super Jr. subwoofer, with 1500 watts RMS, tracking down-converter technology, dual 8" long-throw, hi-velocity, proprietary drivers, and 107db output measured at 1watt/1meter, is the industry's most powerful small subwoofer. AVR is proud to have teamed up with Sunfire to give one away this month. Enter to win a $995 Sunfire True Subwoofer Super Jr.! http://www.avrev.com/audiorevolutioncontest RevolutionHomeTheater Monthly Contest Enter to win a $3,200 Dali 5.1 Suite Speaker System... http://www.revolutionhometheater.com/rhtcontest AVRev.com Lead Story Will the Move Toward Selling Music by the Single Kill Off the Music Business as We Have Known It? My dad tells legendary stories of growing up in the suburbs of Philadelphia as a teenager in the 1950s who mowed neighbors� lawns for pennies and then walked (sometime on his hands, uphill both ways in three feet of snow) to a store called EJ Korvette�s in order to buy one new record. His sacrifice allowed him to develop a collection of 45 RPM records from the Big Bopper, Buddy Holly and beyond, for which he played radio DJ on his record player at home for hours upon hours. His enthusiasm for music, radio and records led him to become a program director of one of the more famous rock radio stations in Philadelphia, WIBG, in the late 1960s, a time when the music industry experienced a landmark change. The change at hand in the late 1960s, powered by Motown, The Beatles and the amazing rock scene, including the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin and The Doors, was the advent of album rock. With the radio play of seven-minute-long songs like �Light My Fire,� Baby Boomers were willing to buy more music and get deeper into the music artists and labels were selling. The move from a singles-based music business to an album-based business model caused a boom, the likes of which we wouldn�t ever really see again in the music industry. Click below for more... http://www.avrev.com/news/0605/2.singles.html Featured Equipment Review Sony Cineza HS-51 Three-Chip LCD Video Projector Professional video calibrator, Jeremy Kipnis, takes a look at Sony's affordable, 3 chip LCD projector to see if it can hang with (or beat) many of today's best DLP projectors - some costing twice the HS-51's $3,495. Click below to read the review... http://www.avrev.com/equip/sonyhs51/ Click below for the video review archive... http://www.avrev.com/equip/video.html 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. Sonos Digital Music System Get all your songs out of your pocket...and into your bedroom, backyard, dining room or den. With the Sonos Digital Music System you can play all your digital music, all over your house and control it all from the palm of your hand. Plus, you can simultaneously play the same song or different songs in as many rooms as you�d like�up to 32. Buy now and save $200 on our Introductory Bundle. http://www.avrev.com/splashpage/sonos052505.html Introducing the completely redesigned RBH MC Series Mark II Designed for both audio and home theater enthusiasts, the MC Series features RBH's proprietary aluminum cone technology; the same technology in their flagship products. Because of the inherent stiffness, low mass and self-damping properties found in aluminum, these advanced drivers deliver crisp, clear sound with the immediacy and accuracy needed to deliver the realism of today's high-definition music and movies. Computer optimized crossover networks allow smooth integration between drivers while increasing power handling and minimizing distortion. To learn more click below... http://www.avrev.com/splashpage/rbh1004.html Like what you read? Want to say something about it? Join the AudioVideoRevolution discussion group at Yahoo.com today! Click below to join the all new AudioVideoRevolution discussion group... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/audiovideorevolution/ More AVRev.com News Internet Surround Music Project to Promote the Creation and Distribution of Multi-Channel Music Online - Coding Technologies recently announced the formation of the Internet Surround Music Project with additional charter members including: AOL�s Winamp media player, Cakewalk, recording artists Richard Devine and Amon Tobin, Jazz Mutant, Minnetonka Software, Nasseri Music Business Solutions, Native Instruments, Steinberg and Tuner2.com. Click below for more... http://www.avrev.com/news/0505/31.surround.html Live 8 Concert Set to Take Place on July 2 - Twenty years after Live Aid took place in London and Philadelphia in 1985, Live 8 will be hitting London, Paris, Berlin, Rome and Philadelphia in order to raise awareness of poverty in Africa. The original Live Aid was staged to relieve starving in Ethiopia, and generated $100 million... Click below for more... http://www.avrev.com/news/0605/1.live8.html EchoStar Rumored to Introduce the First Portable DVR - This summer, satellite TV broadcaster EchoStar plans to unveil the first portable DVR in the US. The DVR will be called the PocketDish and would have the capability to store TV programs, audio, photos and Internet content. The PocketDish will link up to DishNetwork set-top boxes/DVRs via USB 2.0 wiring. Click below for more... http://www.avrev.com/news/0605/3.echostar.html BenQ to Release Portable CD and DVD Burners - BenQ is set to introduce three optical disc-based portable storage products starting this fall. Called Pocket Writers, they will play and record 3.2-inch optical discs (but not the more common 4.7-inch discs). Click below for more... http://www.avrev.com/news/0605/3.benq.html AVRev.com Music Reviews Rob Thomas - Something to Be DualDisc Something To Be, the first solo album from Matchbox 20 frontman Rob Thomas, has been eagerly anticipated by fans of the singer and group, but keenly dreaded by many others. Let�s get it straight right now: Rob Thomas does not have a good singing voice. If there are two major things wrong with Matchbox 20, they are 1) the music and 2) the lead vocalist. Thomas does have a very distinctive and strong voice, but too often it is not suited to the surrounding music. 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