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The Field Guide to Faux-Surround Soundbars

OK, we're calling it: this is the year of the sound bar, those long, slender speaker boxes that you see freakin' everywhere. (Today alone we mentioned three companies introducing a total of six new models!) When our very own Brian Lam was at CES this past January, he heard the editor-in-chief of a top home Audiophile/Videophile magazine tell one of his lead sound gear writers "audio is just dead." That kind of talk is not unexpected—it's about as shocking as a French wine critic calling Australian shiraz "the end of civilization." We all know sound bars have a place, but what have they done to 5.1? As you may have noticed, not all sound bars are surround bars. Here's the breakdown of most currently available models:
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10:58 PM on Mon Aug 13 2007
By Wilson Rothman
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The LAST HTC Post Ever

Ok. This is it. I will never write about HTC again. Maybe someone else will here at Gizmodo, but I, John, will never utter another word about them. They anger me. These are the two models, the Wizard or the Universal or whatever the hell they're called. Consider this the field guide to identifying the HTC phones in the wild. I needed this to figure out the difference between Wizard and the Universal and the SV 2020 and whatever they came out with More »

12:42 PM on Fri Jul 29 2005
By johnb
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