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Audio Video Revolution Monthly Contest This month, one lucky Audio Video Revolution Reader will win a Meridian G98 DVD-Audio Transport. The G98 DVD-Audio transport plays audio CDs, MP3 CDs, Video CDs, DVD-Video,and DVD-Audio discs. It can decode Dolby Digital, DTS, MPEG, MP3, and MLP data streams to PCM for stereo playback. And it can output Dolby Digital, DTS, and MPEG bitstreams for connection to a surround controller. Enter to Win a Meridian G98 DVD-Audio Transport! http://www.avrev.com/audiorevolutioncontest RevolutionHomeTheater Monthly Contest Enter to Win A Qsonix Q100 Digital Music System! http://www.revolutionhometheater.com/rhtcontest AVRev.com Lead Story Is Satellite Radio Becoming Terrestrial Radio (And Does It Matter?) The more I listen to satellite radio, the more it sounds like terrestrial radio. I have personally owned both XM and Sirius for years now. Ultimately, I prefer Sirius for superior programming despite XM's more powerful signal, but I have become concerned with a noticeable slip in Sirius' programming style. In the early days of satellite radio, the media had vast amounts of channels that allowed a listener to get much more specific with what he or she wanted to jam to. While there are still many times more programming choices on both XM and Sirius compared to terrestrial radio, there is also now the same kind of mindless chatter, blabbering, goofy anecdotes and even commercials on a growing number of satellite radio stations. Sirius is now run by ex-Infinity head Mel Karmazin, who sheparded Howard Stern at Infinity and who will once again be his boss at Sirius. Karmazin's track record for increasing profits at Infinity during radio's boom in the late 1990s is impressive. The thinking is that Mel is going to make Sirius look more like Infinity than Sirius. The commercials are coming at least on the non-music channels... Click below for more... http://www.avrev.com/news/0905/15.satradio.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 to visit Anthony Gallo Acoustics. http://www.avrev.com/splashpage/anthonygallo.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 below... http://www.avrev.com/splashpage/nad.html More AVRev.com News CBS and UPN to Add 5.1 to their Vast HDTV Primetime Lineup - CBS was the first network to offer prime time programming in HD seven years ago and now it is bringing 5.1 surround sound to most of its HDTV lineup this season the network promises to broadcast up to 17 hours of primetime HDTV programming every week. UPN will also broadcast six hours of primetime shows in HDTV for a second year... Click here for more... http://www.audiorevolution.com/news/0905/14.cbs51.html Satelli te Radio a Go in Canada, XM Signs Deal with the NHL - Sirius Canada, an affiliate of Sirius Satellite Radio has been approved by Canada¹s Federal Cabinet to offer service in the country. This supported the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission's ruling from earlier this year... Click here for more... http://www.audiorevolution.com/news/0905/13.satellitenhl.html Sunfire's ContraBass Vibration-Free In-wall Subwoofer - The ContraBass is a massive in-wall subwoofer designed to shake only the air and not the wall in which it's mounted. Conventional in-wall subwoofers might have a limited output in order to prevent vibrations that can cause buzzing or rattling, damaging wallboards and internal pipes and wires over time... Click below for more... http://www.audiorevolution.com/news/0905/09.contrabass.html 1080p DLP Chips for Projectors Are Here - Texas Instrument has unveiled their new 1080p DLP chipset for front projectors. The company sees 1920 x 1080 resolution as the standard for many high-definition content in the near future and is making the chips available for both single-chip and three-chip applications... Click below for more... http://www.audiorevolution.com/news/0905/09.dlp.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/ Orb Audio... "A New Global Power" Orb Audio's direct business model means you can get handmade, audiophile grade speakers for less than the price of leading mass manufactured brands. Featuring Orb's exclusive Mod1 and Mod2 satellite speakers -- crafted from U.S. steel into stunning, compact spheres -- Orb Audio systems are well known for producing big, full sound from a compact package. Design and performance like this used to cost a premium, but Orb is changing the way speakers are sold around the world. See why Home Theater Magazine called Orb a "new global power" and why Wired Magazine recently ranked Orb number 1 over Bowers & Wilkins, Mission and Infinity below... http://www.avrev.com/splashpage/orb.html AVRev.com Music Reviews System of a Down - Mezmerize The commercial success of System of a Down still to this day blows my mind. Millions of album sales later, I never imagined that this progressive, ultra-heavy Armenian metal band could have achieved such a lofty place in mainstream alternative rock radio. For those of you who have not heard a SOAD single on the radio or seen a video on MTV, allow me to explain their sound in a nutshell. They play such incredibly heavy, hard-hitting, syncopated progressive metal music with intricate drum patterns and guitar riffs that you would need to have an internal metronome from God to be able to reproduce it. Singer Serj Tankian puts his Armenian roots into their music with an uncanny knack for singing notes that most Western singers would never think to even go for. Backup singer and guitarist Daron Malakian has a very distinct voice that is a little bit creepy and creates a startling blend when he sings along in harmony (or dissonance) with Tankian. On the 11-track musical juggernaut Mezmerize, SOAD rips through the songs in a style that is unique, yet ultimately has very conventional pop-based arrangements. At first listen, I was floored as the riffs and rapid-fire vocal parts whizzed by... http://www.avrev.com/music/revs/mezmerize.shtml 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. 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