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The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) will play host to the Technology & Innovation Emmy Awards for the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) in January 2007. The awards ceremony will be the CES' opening event on January 8, 2007, and will kick off the show's 40th-anniversary celebration.

Dean Roumanis, chief operating officer and part owner of Krell Industries, died Sunday, July 30, of a heart attack, one day after being taken to the hospital following chest pains he experienced after a long bicycle ride. He was 52.

No CDs for you, Tower: The Los Angeles Times reportedhttp://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tower4aug04,0,736949.story?coll=l…; August 4 that Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and EMI have cut off CD shipments to Tower Records because the record chain has stopped paying its bills. Sony BMG may have also stopped shipping to Tower, but the Times was not able to confirm those reports.

Just as the mythical Phoenix arose from its own ashes, the birds of the Talon Audio line have again taken flight, this time as Talon Loudspeakers. As of August 7, Rives Audio (www.rivesaudio.com) has acquired Talon Audio and plans to reintroduce many of the company's most successful models.

Ultimate Ears, the headphone company that specializes in in-ear monitors such as the UE-5chttp://stereophile.com/headphones/1204ultimate/">UE-5c;, is developing a new model slated to join the super.fihttp://www.ultimateears.com/superfi/superfi.htm">super.fi; family of products. During the prototyping period, the design crew referred to the new model as "XXX" (triple X).

In May, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) suedhttp://stereophile.com/news/052206xmtrials/">sued; XM Satellite Radio over the Pioneer">http://www.xm-radio-satellite.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=… Inno portable player, which has a 1GB recording capacity, but no way of porting the recordings outside the player.

Audio professionals and "prosumers" with home studios have long sung the praises of NHT's compact powered monitor, the M-00 (affectionately called "the moo"); powered subwoofer, the S-00 (don't make us say it); and passive volume control, the PVC (a JA favorite). Until July 18, however, these products were only available at studio suppliers and professional audio sales centers. NHT, acceding to "growing demand and an evolving market," will now allow its specialty audio dealer network to offer the formerly Pro products to their clientele as part of NHT's PC Hi-Fi line.