Photos: Sound systems for home theaters
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These combos of speakers and receivers will help  audiophiles get the most out of the home theater experience.
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A start-upâs first product, modeled on the human ear, curbs background noise.
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I have a friend who has had nothing but nightmares result from his attempts at setting up the fabled low-latency high-performance Linux audio system. In sympathy with his plight I present here a primer in three parts for troubleshooting common and uncommon problems with the Linux sound system. Parts 1 &amp; 2 will present programs used to analyze and configure your audio setup. Part 3 will list the most frequently encountered problems along with their suggested solutions. This week, Part 1 introduces some useful system analysis tools and utilities with graphic user interfaces.
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Altec Lansing's SoundBar integrated speaker system tucks underneath flat-panel displays.
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Sony makes the body a living capacitator by sending audio signals through it. From Crave, CNET's gadget blog.
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A round up of some of the  technologies on show at CES that are making the digital living room a reality.
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Playlist reviewer finds good sound in relatively expensive iPod accessory.
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Wega TVs, Vaio systems, DVD recorders and camcorder highlight HD product lineup.
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Blu-ray triumphs in the hi-def war. Did you choose wisely?
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The deep bass sound vibrates your breastbone as you meander through a corner of the massive International Consumer Electronics Show. Someone is simply showing off car audio systems, but it feels like the vehicles themselves are announcing their beefy presence.
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In this week's entry we'll look at two more "live" CDs of Linux systems optimized for multimedia creation and performance. I've been having a great time with these systems, and I hope that my mini-profiles inspire you to try them all. They're a great way to introduce someone to Linux, they show off the system optimized for multimedia performance and they provide a wealth of high-quality sound and music software to exploit that system. They all include the standard cornucopia of applications for the mundane tasks, word processing, text editing, graphics, networking, and so on. All that, for the cost of a download and a disc.
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Sonos has set out do for the rack stereo system what the iPod did for the Walkman: give it a digital makeover.
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Three months ago I introduced my readers to a new system for hosting VST plugins compiled natively for Linux. That system has continued its development and has become a mainstay in the Studio Dave Linux audio arsenal. Here's an update on the system's recent incarnations, complete with the usual multimedia extravaganza of text, screenshots, and sounds.
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Plus: Mashups for the masses and HD video in a digital camera.
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Cool but pricey Portable Media Center devices now available.
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Development of native Linux audio plugins and softsynths may not be so relentlessly rapid as it is in the Windows and Mac sound software worlds, but new things do appear. This week I profile a cool new (well, relatively new) Linux softsynth, William Weston's Phase Harmonic Advanced Synthesis EXperiment, also known as Phasex. Introducing Phasex read more
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Is good, compact sound important enough to you that you'd buy an iPod sound system that looks like a totally freaky space monster? From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog.