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Dina is back (yea!) but not for long (boo!). Things will go back to normal next month, however, so we’ve all got something to look forward to. Tom’s dad is getting a new sub and Tom is jealous (looks like the price went up since Tom’s dad ordered). Yamaha has a new HTiB receiver out which Tom thinks is pretty cool. Oh, and Marantz has a SACD player out that Tom doesn’t like because of the color? Oh, and the price. And the lack of multichannel. And… well you get the picture. How important is low end response on a bookshelf speaker? What’s the deal with first looks on Audioholics? Tom’s cursory review of the Diana Krall: Live in Rio and Blue Man Group: How to Be a Megastar Live! blu-rays. One addition, the video quality of the Diana Krall one sucks. Also, there is no real logical reason why your sub would bet a better workout on the Krall disc rather than the Blue Man. A few listeners have questions about speaker choices. Dina has a question about how you know which reviewer to trust. Tom has a deal that everyone can afford. Also, if you are looking for a new system, the Audioholics Store has some crazy package deals right now. Check them out! Thanks for listening and don’t forget to vote for us at Podcast Alley.
OK guys, if any of you have or are thinking of picking up the BenQ JoyBee GP1 projector, they sent me a warrenty extension for AV Rant listeners. See the text from the email below.
Hi Tom,
We are offering free 2 years extended warranty for you and AVRant listeners! This is our way to say THNAK YOU to you and your lovely community! Please do remember this free 2 years warranty registration is only good up to July 31. It does not matter when the GP1 was purchased and as long as customers enter a valid product serial number and promo code before Jul 31st they are good. After Aug 1st, the link will not work anymore. I will appreciate if you can share this information plus our story sharing contest on your site.
Here is the registration page and promo code:
Registration page
Promo code: CIN0001
Guest co-host number 2 is Andy and he joins Tom this week. They tackle a number of issues this week including the complexity of electronics and how that will affect the sales staff of tomorrow, game lag and displays, and using professional monitors instead of home theater speakers. Ted wants to know if little metal bowls could possibly make a system sound better. No, no they can’t. All things being equal, what’s better, bookshelves or floorstanding speakers? What’s the deal with di-pole speakers and surrounds? How do you run multiple surrounds if you have more than one seat? (Here’s that link to Gene’s article Tom was talking about.) Does Tom actually like Shia La Beouf? Since when did $50 become a “deal” for 3 discs? What is on the horizon as far as downloads vs. discs? How does Redbox play into it? Andy is a talker so this one is a bit long. Thanks for listening and don’t forget to vote for us at Podcast Alley.
Dina’s back and of course the first thing on the menu is Rob. A bunch of stuff about video games including XBox rumors and the Halo killer. LG has a 15″ OLED coming out. HDMI 1.4 Ethernet poll is discussed along with a new acquisition for Amazon. The brightening of speakers - good, bad, or just screechy - Tom discusses. Some new interviews are in the works (hopefully). Mathew has a good suggestion, Monster has a new cable that Tom doesn’t hate, and Tom’s son’s birthday party was a hit. A story from Gene. ooVoo is furthermore banished from this podcast (4 crashes in 30 minutes) so the video is on hold until we can figure out something better. Thanks for listening and don’t forget to vote for us at Podcast Alley.
TG Daily did some testing on Internet browsers after Apple claimed that Safari was the best. Very interesting results. Of course, I can’t use Firefox 3 because it doesn’t play nice with the interface for posting to Audioholics and I can’t use Internet Explorer 8 because it crashes one of the programs I use to edit the podcast. IE7 doesn’t allow you to do some of the edits you need for Wordpress for AV Rant (never tried IE8) through FF is fine. Safari and Chrome have the same problems as Firefox 3 with the Audioholics site so I’m pretty much stuck with Firefox 2. What is your favorite browser and why?
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