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Bang & Olufsen Gets Branded
News
Jon Iverson  |  Dec 27, 1998  |  0 comments
Branding was once reserved for cowhide and breakfast cereals, but changes in the retailing landscape have fostered new approaches for everything from running shoes (Niketown) to cartoon-character merchandise (Disney and Warner Bros. stores) to clothes (Gap, etc.). In the audio market, Bose stores are now common sites in shopping malls, but few higher-ticket companies have taken the brand-store plunge.
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Bang & Olufsen Hits the Road
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Jon Iverson  |  Jun 13, 1999  |  0 comments
Danish audio-video manufacturer Bang & Olufsen has long been known for its unusual product designs. Eschewing the normal tendency of consumer electronics manufacturers to design their circuits and transports into stackable black boxes, the company's current home-audio line includes colorful vertical CD stacks with sliding clear-glass doors and brushed-aluminum cylindrical speakers.
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Bankruptcy Announced
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Jon Iverson  |  Apr 13, 2003  |  0 comments
On April 8, Recoton Corporation voluntarily revealed that it and all of its US-based subsidiaries filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code.
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Bardaudio Wireless Amplifier
HE 2006
Jon Iverson  |  Jun 03, 2006  |  First Published: Jun 04, 2006  |  0 comments
Sonneteer/Bardaudio also makes a wireless receiver that houses a 25Wpc stereo amplifier. The Bardthree amp/receiver comes in several varieties, priced $1,225-1,350, and can be used to stream full-bandwidth tunes to another room, or to a set of rear channels in a hard-to-wire spot.
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Bardaudio Wireless Wonders
HE 2006
Jon Iverson  |  Jun 03, 2006  |  First Published: Jun 04, 2006  |  1 comments
Sonneteer/Bardaudio's Haider Bahrani holds the $425 Bardone TX wireless audio transmitter. This device can broadcast an uncompressed CD stream wirelessly up to 50 meters (164 feet).
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Barnesandnoble.com Jumps into Online Music Fray
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Jon Iverson  |  Jul 11, 1999  |  0 comments
One would think that the Internet was growing crowded with online music retailers such as CDnow/N2K, Amazon.com, EveryCD, and Tower Records, just to name a few, all hustling CDs. But the lure of gold in them e-commerce hills is hard to resist. Last week, barnesandnoble.com jumped into the fray and announced the launch of its own Music Store, featuring what the company describes as the first "online classical music superstore." Notably late to market with its online bookselling franchise, barnesandnoble.com hopes to gain ground against arch-rival Amazon.com by expanding beyond books and better focusing on niche markets.
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Because There Is a Difference . . .
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Jon Iverson  |  Feb 27, 2000  |  0 comments
Conventional wisdom has it that, compared to men, few women express much interest in consumer electronics, and especially audio equipment. In fact, according to Consumer Electronics Association statistics, women accounted for only 22% of the $81 billion spent on consumer electronics in 1999. Prognosticator Jupiter Communcations predicts that, in spite of this, women will account for 46 million online buyers by 2003, and will overtake men in online purchasing.
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Beirut
Face The Music
Jon Iverson  |  May 04, 2006  |  2 comments
Gulag Orkestar
Ba Da Bing Records
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Bel Canto Asynchronous USB Link Converters
CES 2013
Jon Iverson  |  Jan 13, 2013  |  0 comments
Bel Canto has three asynchronous USB link converters new to CES this year starting with the mLink at $375, the uLink at $675 and the REFLink at $1,500. All three units can handle 24/192 sample rates and will isolate the music signal, and clocks, from the "harsh, noisy electrical environments of computers and music servers."
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Bel Canto Black ASC1 Preamp/DAC
CES 2014
Jon Iverson  |  Jan 15, 2014  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
Bel Canto is moving decidedly upmarket with the new Black system. Jason will cover the amps, so I'll stick to the pre/DAC here. The ASC1 will interface specifically with the MPS1 monobloc amps via custom LightLink ST fiber interfaces and cables. There are nine inputs, and capabilities include analog sources, AES, SPDIF, Toslink and UPnP/DLNA streaming up to 24/384 PCM as well as DSD64 and 128.

The ASC1 retails for $20,000. When you add the amps, the entire system is $50k.

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