Roumanis, an avid cyclist, had taken up long-distance biking in recent years to stay healthy. He rode "centuries," day rides of 100 miles, with Team in Training, an organization that rides to raise money for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. His teammates have established a memorial page, including many photos of Roumanis engaged in his favorite activities…
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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.
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.
Other keynote events will include speeches by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, Motorola chairman Ed Zander, and the president and CEO of The Walt Disney Co., Robert Iger.
NATAS Technology & innovation Awards honor achievements in two areas: Science &…
Audia Flight: Musical Sounds will be distributing the Italian electronics manufacturer Audia Flight's line of components in North America. Audia Flight manufactures the CD One CD player, Flight 100 and Flight 50 power amplifiers, Flight ONE integrated amplifier, Flight PRE preamplifier, and Flight 3.100 multichannel amplifier. (North American prices TBA)
Audia's big departure from conventional component design is its utilization of current feedback rather than the more commonly used voltage feedback. This, the company claims, insures that the amplification "is of the transimpedance kind (…
On August 15, Klipsch Group, Inc. announced the acquisition of Canadian firm Audio Products International Corp. (API), one of the largest speaker manufacturers in the world. API, which makes loudspeakers under the Mirage, Energy, Spherez, Sound Dynamics, and Athena Technologies brands, was founded in 1973 and is sold in over 50 countries worldwide. Klipsch, which makes speakers under the Klipsch marque as well as Jamo, was founded in 1946 by legendary speaker designer Paul W. Klipsch and has become "the largest stand-alone speaker manufacturer in the US."
Fred Klipsch, the Klipsch Group's…
This is old news, but you may not have read it anywhere: Warner Classics no longer exists as an "active" label. Gramophone published a news item breaking the story on June 2 and Norman Lebrecht apparently analyzed and excoriated the move in his La Scena Musicale web log shortly thereafter. We say "apparently," since Lebrecht's site now reads www.scena.org is now expired.
Warner Classics consisted of several well-respected, formerly independent labels, including Erato, Teldec, Finlandia, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, and Apex (a UK-based budget label). Apparently Warner Classics operations will…
On August 21, Directed Electronics, Inc. announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Polk Audio for $136 million in cash, with the deal to close in Q3 of 2006. Current Polk management will join Directed, and company founder Matthew Polk and Polk president Jim Herd will sit on Directed's home audio advisory board. File this one under the you can't make this stuff up department: Sandy Gross, founder of Directed's other loudspeaker company, Definitive Technology, already sits on the board, which makes Polk's presence there a homecoming of sorts, since Gross was a…
Andy Regan, NHT's senior vice-president of sales and marketing, could barely contain his glee. "I'm happy—no, I'm proud—no, I'm happy and proud to announce that Mary Cardas is NHT's North American sales manager."
Cardas began her career in audio in 1989, working for Cardas Audio, the company started by her father, George Cardas. She eventually held the position of managing director, where she increased the company's sales by 65% and oversaw the line's expansion into an international presence. Ms. Cardas has also held supervisory roles at Theta Digital and Sunfire Corporation. Most…
On August 29, Nonesuch Records gave its first donation of $1 million to Habitat for Humanity International. The funds, raised in only eight months through sales of 150,000 copies of Nonesuch's superb benefit album Our New Orleans 2005, will be used to build homes for displaced musicians and others in the New Orleans Habitat Musicians' Village, whose centerpiece will be the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music.
Nonesuch began work on the album just a few days after Katrina struck. The brainstorm of Nonesuch president Robert Hurwitz, Our New Orleans 2005 consists solely of new tracks recorded in…
Amina Tech Plaster-In-Walls: Amina Technologies Ltd. of Huntingdon, England is introducing its Plaster-In-Wall speakers to the American market. The Plaster-In-Walls employ NXT-patented high-power flat diaphragms to create "undetectable in-wall or in-ceiling speakers." NXT technology is said to offer improved dispersion characteristics over conventional speakers, making location and listening position far more flexible, according to Amina.
Amina Plaster-In-Wall speakers incorporate a specialized strong, lightweight composite material that "vibrates in the same way as natural musical…
On Saturday, September 30 and Sunday, October 1, over 50 exhibitors and 200 brands will be on display at the Brussels Sheraton Hotel (Rogier Place, 3—1210 Brussels) between 10am and 7pm. Register in advance and have your pre-printed badge waiting for you—plus, you'll be eligible for door prizes.
Participants include: Acoustic Arts, Actinote, Acustica Applicata, Advance Acoustic, Agile, Aldenkamp, Alesco, ALR-Jordan, ALR-Jordan Gold CDs, Amazon, AMC, Amphion, André Charlin, Anthony Gallo Acoustics, Apertura, Apollo, Argon, Art Sound, Atohm, Atoll Electronique, Audience, Audio Analogue,…