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Audio Video Revolution Monthly Contest This month, one lucky AudioVideoRevolution.com reader will be taking home a theater system from NAD Electronics and PSB Speakers. The system includes Two pair of PSB B15 bookshelf speakers, two pair PSB SP25i speaker stands, one PSB C40 center channel speaker, one PSB SubSeries 5i subwoofer, one NAD T743 receiver and one NAD T514 DVD player Enter to Win a $2,472 Home Theater System from NAD Electronics and PSB Speakers! http://www.avrev.com/audiorevolutioncontest RevolutionHomeTheater Monthly Contest Enter to Win a $1,499 iScan HD+ Video Processor... http://www.revolutionhometheater.com/rhtcontest AVRev.com Lead Story Legal Music Downloads Up Threefold in 2005 Nielsen SoundScan released figures that show an increase in legal music downloads from 55 million in the first half of 2004 to nearly 159 million in the same period in 2005. While the number of downloads has tripled, actual sales for the industry have decreased by two and a half percent so far this year. This drop being is blamed on weak album sales, but analysts are cautious, suggesting it is still too soon to tell if this trend will hold up through the holiday season. The data also shows single-song downloads account for six percent of total sales, compared to less than two percent last year. While the fast rise in paid downloads might look encouraging to the industry, we should not assume this increase comes from users who were downloading illegally just a year ago. This is not necessarily a triumph over piracy... Click below for more... http://www.avrev.com/news/0705/14.downloads.html HD Radio is Coming Your Way HD Radio is a new technology for broadcasting digital terrestrial radio that can deliver CD quality sound on FM and FM quality sound on AM, multiple programs on a single frequency and text. By end of the year 2500 stations will be broadcasting in HD and in a couple of years every major station will broadcast in HD. Polk Audio is among the first to offer HD Radio hardware in the form of the I-Sonic Entertainment system that combines an HD tuner, XM satellite radio (with optional antenna), DVD/CD player and a four speaker array. For more information, please visit http://www.avrev.com/splashpage/polk.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 here to visit Anthony Gallo Acoustics: http://www.avrev.com/splashpage/anthonygallo.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/ Sonos Music Digital System The Sonos(tm) Digital Music System lets you play all your digital music, all over your house and control it from the palm of your hand. All you need is a Sonos(tm) ZonePlayer and speakers in the rooms of your choice and the Sonos Controller in hand to access your digital music. It's the only multi-room digital music system that liberates the music stored on your PC so you can listen to it wherever you want. Click here to learn more and read the reviews. Click below to learn more and read the reviews... http://www.sonos.com/us/landing/all_lp2.htm More AVRev.com News Playlists Built on Moods Rekindle Enthusiasm for Collecting Music on CD - I have been buying more and more music lately after spending a good year or so trying to organize and manage the vast collection I have amassed on CD, DVD-Audio, SACD and beyond. Between iTunes and a Firewire hard drive at work, a ReQuest Fusion 250 music server at home and an iPod for the car, gym and airplane I learned quickly that I could have massive amounts of music at my fingertips nearly everywhere I go. The question is am I any better off for it? Click here for more... http://www.avrev.com/news/0705/07.playlist.html Classé Releases its First Delta Series DVD Player - Classé has added a DVD player to its Delta Series of audio-video components. The CDP-300 is compatible with a number of formats, it plays standard DVDs and CDs as well as DVD-Audio, DualDisc, discs encoded with MP3, WMA or AAC audio, Video-CD, S-VCD and JPEG picture discs Click below for more... http://www.avrev.com/news/0705/08.classedvd.html David Lee Roth to Replace Stern on Infinity Radio Stations? - Online sources are saying that former Van Halen front man David Lee Roth will replace Howard Stern as Infinity¹s syndicated morning talk show host. Stern is taking his show to Sirius satellite radio in January of 2006, after years of being the set-up man for Infinity's hugely successful male-oriented talk and classic rock radio formats. Click below for more... http://www.avrev.com/news/0705/11.roth.html JVC's New Line of HD Television Sets - JVC is now shipping a new line of high definition LCD televisions with HDMI inputs, CableCard compatibility and integrated ATSC tuners that gives users a clean look by eliminating the need for separate set-top boxes. Click below for more... http://www.avrev.com/news/0705/13.jvchdtv.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.NADelectronics.com/power AVRev.com Music Reviews Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cold Roses One of country's bright young hopes, Ryan Adams continues to amaze and confuse with his combination of romance and car crash he's the Paul Westerberg of modern country. Adams can write classic country songs achingly perfect and still seem at times lazy and unfocused, but either way Adams is an artist and songwriter who you cannot ignore. A little like Elvis Costello in the midst of his most creative blitz, Adams has music seemingly tumbling out of him and, to satisfy the prodigious output, he releases more albums than a label, even the impressive Lost Highway, can properly exploit. It's been a year since the prolific alt-country-rocker put out his last highly regarded pair of albums this time he opts to release a double album set all at once. Click below to read the full review... http://www.avrev.com/music/revs/ryanadams_coldroses.shtml Please Support AVR's Sponsors http://www.avrev.com/splashpage/martinlogan250.html http://www.avrev.com/splashpage/energy.html http://www.avrev.com/splashpage/polk_xm.html If you have AOL 6.0, 7.0, 8.0 or an email client that supports html emails and you'd like to switch to our full color email updates in the future, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject "html email" in the subject header. Audio Video Revolution and its publications are compliant with Business & Professional Code SECT 17529. To be removed from this list go the link below and follow the on-screen instructions or call us toll free at 866.235.0069. http://www.avrev.com/home/subscribe/ss_remove.html Click here for Audio Video Revolution's privacy policy http://www.avrev.com/home/privacypolicy/index.html Audio Video Revolution 9601 Wilshire Boulevard Suite 880, Beverly Hills, California 90210
