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Talking newspaper ads startle India

NEW DELHI (UPI) -- Police in India are asking residents not to be afraid of talking Volkswagen ads appearing in two of the country's largest newspapers.

The Volkswagen Vento ad, which appeared Tuesday in The Times of India and The Hindu, prompted numerous calls to police in New Delhi when a voice began reading the print ad aloud in a style similar to a radio commercial, ABC News reported.

Any experience with Norh 9 speaker?

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Loudspeakers
Submitted by AudioRigger on

I'm thinking of dabbling in the Norh 9 speaker for fun. Does anyone have experience with this speaker?

The concept is intriguing. It's shape is based on an African drum, is made of solid marble and has great drivers. Good reviews too, but it would be nice to here if someone has heard these speakers in action.

http://www.norh.com/Norh_Loudspeaker/Norh_9.html.

Time spent on hard drive housekeeping

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General Rants 'n' Raves
Submitted by Drtrey3 on

I am currently spending a lot of time on hard drive housekeeping. I got a new computer, which is great, but now I am consolidating two libraries, a full and high rez external hard drive for WMP and my mp3s for iTunes.

So I am spending about 30 minutes a night making sure that every album has cover art and that they are in the right genre and so on and so forth.

It is a pain. And I end up doing it when the drives are stable too. About 10 minutes a night then.

Am I alone in this? Is your hard drive demanding?

Trey

Oneohtrix Point Never: Returnal

Oneohtrix Point Never: Returnal

Sep 28, 2010
Returnal (Editions Mego EMEGO 104), the fourth full-length release from Oneohtrix Point Never, explodes into the listening room (or out from the speakers or out from the headphones) with real violence and penetrating force. We are thrust into a heavy storm, a maelstrom; we find ourselves standing beneath an ocean of falling glass, falling sky, falling electronic haze. If instruments could scream, their screams might sound like this, like the opening few moments of Returnal, moments that don’t seem like an opening at all, but someplace else, some other time that escaped us, that started without us, before we were ready. I don’t mean scream in the way that guitars and saxophones and other instruments can and do scream. I mean that if instruments could be dealt such pain that they were brought to life, given sentience, to wail with wonderful suffering, it might sound like this, like the opening few moments of “Nil Admirari.”

Shelf strength

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The Entry Level
Submitted by vman on

I am building a new house and want a minimalist display for my audio equipment. At this point the walls are just framed, so I have access to do whatever I need to do. I have a MMF turntable, Cayin tubed amp and CD player, plus a small pre-amp for the turntable.

I am thinking about having two wide shelves, like two inch thick blocks of wood, just sticking out of the wall. TT and Amp on the upper shelf. I am concerned anything I construct may dip - even a tiny dip would look bad.

The 2010 CEDIA Show: Day 3

The 2010 CEDIA Show: Day 3

Sep 28, 2010

Looking back at the 2010 CEDIA Exposition, I was struck by a couple of new products which, I hope, presage a rethinking of modern electronics design. Today, the streaming of program content can be accomplished by TVs, by Blu-ray players, by dedicated servers and, for all I know, someone will put that capability into a speaker system. The result is that, unless one chooses very carefully, one will be buying the same technology redundantly. By contrast, high-end companies have striven to separate their dedicated analog/stereo products from their digital/multichannel products, forcing the very picky among us into a kludgy home-theater-bypass. Again, we end up buying more boxes and interconnections than should be necessary.

The 2010 CEDIA Show: Day 2

The 2010 CEDIA Show: Day 2

Sep 27, 2010

I start my second report from the 2010 CEDIA Exposition by returning to <B>MartinLogan</B>. As well as their $2000/pair ElectroMotion electrostatic hybrid that I described in my first report from CEDIA, the Kansas company showed the appealing new 2-way Theos. This hand-built floorstander combines a 9.2"-wide by 44"-tall XStat electrostatic transducer with a 8" aluminum-cone woofer in a bass reflex enclosure. Its large electrostatic radiator and passive woofer can be bi-wired or not with a unique tool-less binding-post design. At $5000/pair, the Theos will be the most affordable speaker in the Reserve Series of floorstanders.

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