CEDIA 2006
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Mac Is Back!
CEDIA 2006
Shane Buettner • Sep 15, 2006 • 0 comments

Not that McIntosh ever really went anywhere, but it was still pretty cool to see the retro glass front panels and cool blue and green fluorescents lighting up an entire 7.1-channel home theater system.
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Making Sense of Sensio
CEDIA 2006
Scott Wilkinson • Jan 14, 2011 • 0 comments

Sensio announced three new 3D technologies as explained by VP of Marketing and Communications Louis Rousseau.

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Marantz Broadens its Sights
CEDIA 2006
Tom Norton • Sep 15, 2006 • 0 comments

Marantz introduced its third new DLP projector this year, at a new (for them) lower price point. Details in the next blog entry, below.
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Marantz Broadens its Sights-2
CEDIA 2006
Tom Norton • Sep 15, 2006 • 0 comments
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Martin Logan sub
CEDIA 2006
Steven Stone • Sep 14, 2006 • 1 comments

Martin Logan unveield a completely redesigned Descent subwoofer, dubbed the Descent-i, because it's an improved version of the Descent, but I bet you already guessed that.
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McIntosh Processsors
CEDIA 2006
Tom Norton • Sep 16, 2006 • 0 comments

McIntosh announced its first video processor, the VP1000 at the show (on top in the photo). It is configured to allow separate scaling, switching, and control over two separate AV zones. It also offers 4 HDMI and 6 component inputs. The new AP1000 Audio Control Center has no video switching of its own, but offers a dedicated control interface port for the VP1000. The AP1000 nevertheless offers an LCD front panel video display for control and live video. The VP is expected to sell for $10,000 and the AP1000 for the same price.
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McIntosh Projects
CEDIA 2006
Tom Norton • Sep 16, 2006 • 0 comments

McIntosh announced its first video projector MDLP1 single-chip, 1080p DLP. Expected to sell in the mid $20,000's the new Mcintosh VP1000 video processor is recommended for use with it.
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Meridian Hits the Wall
CEDIA 2006
Mark Fleischmann • Sep 16, 2006 • 0 comments
The Meridian P200z in-wall subwoofer fits an eight-inch active driver and eight-inch passive radiator into a three-quarter-inch depth. In a conventional subwoofer, that's not nearly enough space, but the dedicated amp (bottom) uses DSP magic to compensate. The enclosure is a nonresonant wood-metal laminate. Price tentatively pegged between $4000-5000.
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Meridian Media Core 200
CEDIA 2006
Scott Wilkinson • Jan 09, 2011 • 0 comments
The Sooloos audio-server system from Meridian is an audiophile favorite, but the Control 15 with touchscreen interface is pretty expensive at $7500. New at CES is the Media Core 200 server, which uses the iPad or iPhone as the control interface and sells for $4000. That's still a lot, but it includes 500GB of hard-disk space—enough for 1000 uncompressed CDs—and access to Rhapsody and Internet radio. Outputs include S/PDIF, SpeakerLink for Meridian digital powered speakers, and fixed and variable analog.
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Meridian Media Core 600
CEDIA 2006
Scott Wilkinson • Jan 09, 2011 • 0 comments
For multi-room custom installations, Meridian is introducing the Media Core 600 audio server with two hot-swappable hard-drive bays, conveniently located in the front, and outputs for six independent zones, each including S/PDIF, SpeakerLink, and fixed and variable analog. The Media Core 600 replaces the Ensemble and eliminates the latency between zones playing the same content by slaving multiple zones to one clock. Even better, a new House Sync feature slaves multiple units to the same clock, eliminating latency in very large systems. Pricing and availability are to be determined.
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Meridian-Faroudja
CEDIA 2006
• Sep 14, 2006 • 0 comments

Here's another shot of the Meridian-Faroudja 1920x1080 DILA1080MF-1 LCoS projector, which was used in conjunction with the company's DVP1080MF scaler to produce some of the best-looking images at the show. At $26,000 (for projector and scaler) it had to, considering the strong competition being offered by a flood of new 1080p digital projectors of all terchnological stripes. The demo also featured in-wall speakers from Meridian, the first time to my knowledge that the company has demonstrated in-walls in a trade show setting. It was also the first time they have used a perforated Studiotek 130, 110 inch) screen.
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Meridian’s In-Walls Sound Like Out Walls- Er, Floorstanders
CEDIA 2006
Shane Buettner • Sep 15, 2006 • 0 comments

Meridian’s Bob Stuart presided over a demonstration of Meridian’s model 350 in-walls speakers. The speakers can be configured as more traditional passive speakers connected to traditional power amps at speaker level, and they can also be configured as full digital active speakers using all digital connections and onboard amps.
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Mining For A Heart Of Gold With Vandersteen And Audio Research
CEDIA 2006
Shane Buettner • Sep 16, 2006 • 0 comments

OK, before reading any further you should know that I’ve purchased and used Vandersteen audio loudspeakers as a reference for the last several years, and that I’ve had many intimate and extremely satisfying experiences with Audio Research’s gear as well. So, when I rolled over to the Vandersteen-ARC-Kubala-Sosna room at the CEDIA off-shoot T.H.E. Show, these people were preaching to the already converted to be sure!
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Mirage Keeps Bouncing, Energy Still Energetic
CEDIA 2006
Mark Fleischmann • Sep 17, 2006 • 0 comments
These two Canadian speaker brands may now be under the Klipsch umbrella but they retain their distinctive identities and sounds. I was most impressed by Energy's in-walls including the RC-6W left/center/right speaker ($350), RC-8C surround ($325), and RC-8C sub ($600). They have the clarity that is Energy's signature at affordable prices. Pictured is the Mirage OMD-15 tower ($1250/each), a relatively more affordable member of the OmniSat series. It bounces tweeter output off a spoon-shaped object to achieve surround-like spaciousness even with just two channels, though it would also form a surround system with the matching center ($750) and satellite ($375/each).
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Mirv the Martian
CEDIA 2006
Fred Manteghian • Sep 16, 2006 • 0 comments

Xperiment, a maker of music and movie whole house systems for custom installers has some interesting, albeit expensive products. But expensive as they are, they really do do a lot and compared to some of their competitors, they're sort of midline in price. Xperiment just struck a deal with Music Giants to download music and movies into one of their high end servers. Their servers, Poseidon and Polaris, offer between 1.5 and 4.0 Terabytes of raided storage for prices that closely mirror what corporation pay to protect their data. Of course, I don't know if you need that much protection for, say, Godfather III, but it's nice to know it's there. A top end server, the Poseidon, is $25,000 and each room where you want control needs a "client" which features a DVD player/reader (from $2,400 to $3,000). Everything is connected with Ethernet and the whole system can even synch with your other system at your vacation home in the Hamptons while jet over there for the weekend.
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