Enter to Win: Aperion Signature SLIMstage30 by Soundmatters Soundbar!

[Tom Andry]

Aperion Audio wants you to win!

Aperion Audio is giving away the chance to one (1) SLIMstage30 Surround Soundbar to one (1) eligible forum member! As households add a second or third flat-panel HDTV, these secondary viewing locations may not accommodate a 5.1 home theater speaker system due to room size, layout, or pure aesthetics. The Aperion SLIMstage30 Surround Soundbar is the perfect solution for secondary viewing locations like a bedroom, den or any other room where elegance and simplicity are just as important to you as your sonic experience. This contest represents a $599 value!



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Features:

• Slim design with piano black finish to match the aesthetics of your flat-panel TV
• Complete sound system works right out of the box, no home theater receiver required
• An immersive viewing experience provided from a simple one-piece soundbar
• Projects detailed surround sound from both analog and digital 5.1 signals, without the need for surround speakers or an A/V receiver
• Front panel 1/8" mini-jack input for iPod/MP3 player with automatic selection
• Decodes Dolby® Digital and DTS® Digital Surround
• Euphony™ HD surround sound technology
• You can connect a powered subwoofer by using the included wire
• Weight: 16.5lbs, Dimensions - 31.1" Wide x 3.5" High x 3.7" deep

To be eligible to win, you must: 1) Be a registered Audioholics forum member, 2) Have USA Residence and 3) Answer the following questions in the thread below.

Contest Questions:
1) Do you have outdoor speakers at your home?

• If yes, how do you get music to them? Can you control the volume and source while outside?
• If no, why not? (e.g., not necessary, can't make it work, etc.)

2) Please choose and rank the top 3 most important features to have for outdoor speakers (1 being the most important)

• Ability to adjust volume without going inside your house
• Ability to change audio track or source without going inside your house
• Sound quality
• Loudness
• Battery powered
• Portability
• Hidden into decor or landscape

3) Do you have a power outlet on your deck or patio?

4) Where do you have /or would you want outdoor speakers? (e.g., deck, under an eave, in the garden, around pool, other, etc.)

Note this contest ends on November 30th, 2010. Winners will be drawn shortly thereafter.

Have fun and good luck!

 

[its phillip]

1) Do you have outdoor speakers at your home?
No. My back porch is tiny and uncovered, so I'm never out there.

2) Please choose and rank the top 3 most important features to have for outdoor speakers (1 being the most important)
1. Sound quality
2. Ability to adjust volume without going inside your house
3. Loudness

3) Do you have a power outlet on your deck or patio?
Yes, but I'm fairly certain it doesn't even work.

4) Where do you have /or would you want outdoor speakers? (e.g., deck, under an eave, in the garden, around pool, other, etc.)
If I had a larger & covered back porch/deck, I'd have em back there. If I was allowed to have a pool (HOA says no) and could afford one, I'd definitely have to have speakers around there.

 

[gonk]

Contest Questions:
1) Do you have outdoor speakers at your home?

• If yes, how do you get music to them? Can you control the volume and source while outside?
• If no, why not? (e.g., not necessary, can't make it work, etc.)

No. We had a wireless speaker at one time (connected to second zone output of our surround processor), which was used both outside and in the living room, but it was used so rarely that I didn't bother reconnecting it at some point. We could not change the source remotely. The wireless speaker had a volume control on it, but it was hard to reach.

2) Please choose and rank the top 3 most important features to have for outdoor speakers (1 being the most important)

• Ability to adjust volume without going inside your house
• Ability to change audio track or source without going inside your house
• Sound quality
• Loudness
• Battery powered
• Portability
• Hidden into decor or landscape

1. Sound quality
2. Ability to adjust volume without going inside your house
3. Ability to change audio track or source without going inside your house

Very poor sound quality was probably one of the biggest factors in not using our wireless speaker, but control (or lack thereof) of volume and source probably also contributed.

3) Do you have a power outlet on your deck or patio?

Yes.

4) Where do you have /or would you want outdoor speakers? (e.g., deck, under an eave, in the garden, around pool, other, etc.)

Deck installation - would be under an eave or on exterior wall of the house above the deck railing.

 

[Anagoge]

1) No outdoor speakers right now. I wouldn't mind having, them, but this is a temporary home.

2) Most important features:
1. * Ability to adjust volume without going inside your house
2. * Sound quality
3. * Hidden into decor or landscape

3) Yes, we have outdoor power

4) Under an eave

 

[jhanley]

1) Do you have outdoor speakers at your home?

Not Yet,waiting for right ones to come along.
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2) Please choose and rank the top 3 most important features to have for outdoor speakers (1 being the most important)

#1 Endurance. I don't want to worry every time it rains/snows.
#2 Sound quality.
#3 Hidden into decor or landscape.​

3) Do you have a power outlet on your deck or patio?

Yes.​

4) Where do you have /or would you want outdoor speakers? (e.g., deck, under an eave, in the garden, around pool, other, etc.)

Deck, under eave.
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[adk highlander]

1) Do you have outdoor speakers at your home? -Yes
How do you get music to them? - Multizone audio system.
Can you control the volume and source while outside? - Yes from RF remote.

2) Please choose and rank the top 3 most important features to have for outdoor speakers (1 being the most important)
1 - Sound quality
2 -Ability to adjust volume without going inside your house
3 -Ability to change audio track or source without going inside your house

3) Do you have a power outlet on your deck or patio? - Yes

4) Where do you have /or would you want outdoor speakers? (e.g., deck, under an eave, in the garden, around pool, other, etc.)
At present they are on the back deck but I would like to add at least two more zones for more even sound distribution.

 

[Alex2507]

1. No. I live in a condo and never sit on the deck.

2. Sound Quality
... External Volume Control
... External Source control

3. Yes

4. In a perfect world I would own a garage and would place speakers outside of it, probably under the eave.

 

[dkane360]

1) Do you have outdoor speakers at your home?
No. We hardly go out onto our deck, so there's no real reason to have speakers outside.

2) Please choose and rank the top 3 most important features to have for outdoor speakers (1 being the most important)
1. Sound quality
2. Ability to adjust volume
3. Ability to change track

3) Do you have a power outlet on your deck or patio?
yes

4) Where do you have /or would you want outdoor speakers? (e.g., deck, under an eave, in the garden, around pool, other, etc.)
I would want speakers under an eave above our deck

 

[gholt]

1) Do you have outdoor speakers at your home?
not yet. Waiting till Winter to do the wiring. The music will be linked to my AVR.

2) Please choose and rank the top 3 most important features to have for outdoor speakers (1 being the most important)

2-- Ability to adjust volume without going inside your house
1-- Ability to change audio track or source without going inside your house
3-- Sound quality

3) Do you have a power outlet on your deck or patio?
Yes

4) Where do you have /or would you want outdoor speakers?
I would like them under the Awning.

 

[Bryce_H]

1) Do you have outdoor speakers at your home?
If no, why not? (e.g., not necessary, can't make it work, etc.)

No, not yet. But actively looking. Until recently we have not had a real reason to have outdoor speakers. We are having our deck finished as we speak and recently got a playset for the kids, so we will be spending more time outside.

2) Please choose and rank the top 3 most important features to have for outdoor speakers (1 being the most important)

1) Sound quality
2) Hidden into decor or landscapeLoudness
3) Loudness

(not listed - but would be my #2) - Weather proof (not resistant) - I live in Colorado and the speakers will be exposed to a multitude of weather conditions


3) Do you have a power outlet on your deck or patio?

Yes

4) Where do you have /or would you want outdoor speakers? (e.g., deck, under an eave, in the garden, around pool, other, etc.)

Above the deck attached to the house

 

[JJMP50]

1) Do you have outdoor speakers at your home? Yes. A pair of $70 yamaha plastic deck speakers. They are connected to a 2 channel system (B speakers) in the den which leads out to the deck. I have a clear view to the system through the sliding glass door so my remote works

2) Please choose and rank the top 3 most important features to have for outdoor speakers (1 being the most important)

Ability to adjust volume without going inside your house
Ability to change audio track or source without going inside your house
Sound quality

3) Do you have a power outlet on your deck or patio? Yes (2 in fact)

4) Where do you have /or would you want outdoor speakers? (e.g., deck, under an eave, in the garden, around pool, other, etc.)

Currently under the eave although the Yamahas do not adjust from right to left, only up and down due to the design of the brackets.

 

[johndoe]

1) Do you have outdoor speakers at your home?
NO, THEY'RE NOT NECESSARY. I HAVE A SMALL BACK YARD, I'D PROBABLY JUST UPGRADE MY PORTABLE SPEAKER/BOOMBOX (CURRENTLY A BOSE IDOCK) FOR SOMETHING MORE STURDY AND WITH MORE OOMPH.

2) Please choose and rank the top 3 most important features to have for outdoor speakers (1 being the most important)

1 * Ability to change audio track or source without going inside your house
2 * Ability to adjust volume without going inside your house
3 * Sound quality

3) Do you have a power outlet on your deck or patio? YES, FOUR

4) Where do you have /or would you want outdoor speakers? (e.g., deck, under an eave, in the garden, around pool, other, etc.)
UNDER AN EAVE

 

[Bull58]

1) Do you have outdoor speakers at your home?
yes, wired to zone 2.

Can you control the volume and source while outside?
No, Prepro has IR remote only.

2) Please choose and rank the top 3 most important features to have for outdoor speakers (1 being the most important)

Sound quality
Ability to adjust volume without going inside your house
Ability to change audio track or source without going inside your house

3) Do you have a power outlet on your deck or patio?
Yes

4) Where do you have /or would you want outdoor speakers?
They are on the back patio, my next set will be in the garage.

 

[echopoint]

1) Do you have outdoor speakers at your home?
No. I don't have speakers because I just moved and haven't had a chance to do any work on the back yard. Eventually I would like outdoor speakers.

2) Please choose and rank the top 3 most important features to have for outdoor speakers (1 being the most important)
1 Ability to adjust volume without going inside your house
2 Ability to change audio track or source without going inside your house
3 Sound quality

3) Do you have a power outlet on your deck or patio?
Yes

4) Where do you have /or would you want outdoor speakers?
I would like outdoor speakers near a hot tub

 

[godan]

1 no, no money

2 sound quality, Ability to adjust volume without going inside your house, Hidden into decor or landscape

3 yes

4 back deck

 

[AzN_plyR]

Contest Questions:
1) Do you have outdoor speakers at your home?

Yes, receiver channel 2 to get music to them. Volume control via remote controller.

2) Please choose and rank the top 3 most important features to have for outdoor speakers (1 being the most important)

1. Sound quality
2. Loudness
3. Hidden into decor or landscape
3) Do you have a power outlet on your deck or patio?

Yes

4) Where do you have /or would you want outdoor speakers?

Around the pool and patio.

 

[Nugu]

Contest Questions:

1) Do you have outdoor speakers at your home?

If yes, how do you get music to them? Can you control the volume and source while outside?
If no, why not? (e.g., not necessary, can't make it work, etc.)

No, not outside enough to care about it.

2) Please choose and rank the top 3 most important features to have for outdoor speakers (1 being the most important)

Ability to adjust volume without going inside your house
Ability to change audio track or source without going inside your house
Sound quality
Loudness
Battery powered
Portability
Hidden into decor or landscape

1. Ability to change audio track or source without going inside your house
2. Ability to adjust volume without going inside your house
3. Sound quality

3) Do you have a power outlet on your deck or patio?

No, I have to use a extension cord unfortunately.

4) Where do you have /or would you want outdoor speakers? (e.g., deck, under an eave, in the garden, around pool, other, etc.)

Deck.

 

[PSU80]

1) Do you have outdoor speakers at your home?
No. It's on my "to do list", just haven't gotten to it yet.

2) Please choose and rank the top 3 most important features to have for outdoor speakers (1 being the most important)
1. Sound quality
2. Ability to adjust volume
3. Ability to change track

3) Do you have a power outlet on your deck or patio?
yes

4) Where do you have /or would you want outdoor speakers? (e.g., deck, under an eave, in the garden, around pool, other, etc.)

2 separate locations:
1) On a covered screened porch (will be well protected from the elements)
2) On a open deck at the pool. (totally exposed to the elements)

 

[casualhouse]

1) Do you have outdoor speakers at your home?
No, not necessary, unless I have a BBQ, then I have a powered PA speaker I use outside, powered by an XLR run to DJ equipment inside.

2) Please choose and rank the top 3 most important features to have for outdoor speakers (1 being the most important)
[1]Sound quality
[2]Loudness
[3]Ability to change audio track or source without going inside your house

3) Do you have a power outlet on your deck or patio?

Yes

4) Where do you have /or would you want outdoor speakers? (e.g., deck, under an eave, in the garden, around pool, other, etc.)

In the rear porch.

 

[STRONGBADF1]

1) Do you have outdoor speakers at your home?

* If yes, how do you get music to them? Can you control the volume and source while outside?
* If no, why not? (e.g., not necessary, can't make it work, etc.)

No. Need to get around to it...(lazyness)

2) Please choose and rank the top 3 most important features to have for outdoor speakers (1 being the most important)

#2 * Ability to adjust volume without going inside your house
#4 * Ability to change audio track or source without going inside your house
#1 * Sound quality
#3 * Loudness
#6 * Battery powered
#7 * Portability
#5 * Hidden into decor or landscape

3) Do you have a power outlet on your deck or patio?

No, not yet.

4) Where do you have /or would you want outdoor speakers? (e.g., deck, under an eave, in the garden, around pool, other, etc.)

I want them across the back of the house with two zones. One at the back porch and another for the rest of the yard.