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Origin Acoustics Builds ‘Luxury Brand Portfolio,’ Becoming Master Distributor For iRoom

Jeremy Burkhardt wants his company Origin Acoustics to be more than a loudspeaker manufacturer. He wants to build a 'luxury brand portfolio' that now includes iRoom, the Austrian maker of high-end iPad mounts and docking stations....

Habitech Adds Yamaha RX-60 AV Receivers To Home Cinema Portfolio

Habitech has added five models from Yamaha’s AVENTAGE RX-60 series of AVRs to its home cinema portfolio. Ranging in power and channel specification from 7.2 ...

Pioneer PLX-500 Turntable Converts Vinyl Into Digital Files

The Pioneer PLX-500 is a direct drive turntable capable of converting vinyl into a digital library of WAV files by connecting it to a PC or Mac via USB...

Ingeny Launches Cinema Room Project For Commercial Residential Sector

Ingeny, the home automation division of security systems and building technology integrator Interphone, has launched a complete design and build cinema room sol...

Intel RealSense Depth Sensing Cameras Could Be Destined For HTC Vive

Intel could make the HTC Vive even smarter, with a company engineer teasing a RealSense depth-sensing attachment for the Vive...

Onkyo Network AV Receivers Set For DTS:X Firmware Update

Onkyo network AV receivers are set to receive DTS:X support through a firmware update scheduled to roll out to select 2015 and 2016 models on August 31...

Avensys Smart Home Officially Opened By Shane Richie

Award winning UK-based install company, Avensys Ltd, has officially launched its impressive concept Smart Home at its retail store on Fleming Way, Crawley, West...

CEDIA’s 10 Future Predictions

Dave Pedigo, CEDIA’s senior director of emerging technologies, and 16 volunteers have created the CEDIA Technology Council, creating a list of 100 predictions for the year 2020....

Inside One Direction’s Louis Tomlinson’s Home Cinema Hollywood Mansion

One Direction band member, Louis Tomlinson has purchased this $21 million Hollywood home that was previously owned by The Rolling Stones, Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere ....

Meridian Signs Wavetrain As Australian Distributor

Meridian has signed a distribution partnership with Wavetrain, a home cinema and theatre design company based in Sydney, Australia that will now offer Meridian’s full range of products and services to its dealers across Australia...