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[crzycuyler]

Questions

1. How do you buy your high-end audio products today? Why?

-Specialty Retail Stores because I am able to get reasonable discounts from people I know.


2. What three consumer electronics products in the market today are you most excited about and why?

-Computers (macs and PCs), Speakers (my new pair of B&W 685s), and Televisions (the new Elite) because I have recently fallen in love with the audio world and I expect great technological advances in computer performance in the future. I am also very surprised in the quality of a non plasma television. I'd like to see where this leads.

3. What is your most treasured audio component?

-Denon AVR3312

4. What areas of the consumer electronics industry (specifically audio/video) do you feel are untapped and offer the most potential from new technology?

-Customizable and user friendly, yet dynamic on-screen GUI and system control for all systems.

 

[ehurnie]

1. How do you buy your high-end audio products today? Why?
Online. It's cheaper and now that you can sample the equipment and send it back if it's not what you want, there is no other way to go.

2. What three consumer electronics products in the market today are you most excited about and why?
LCD/LED TV
Surround bar
Subwoofer
These are all products I'm researching to add to my home theater and bedroom system

3. What is your most treasured audio component?
My monitor audio speakers

4. What areas of the consumer electronics industry (specifically audio/video) do you feel are untapped and offer the most potential from new technology?
I'd say integrating cable tv with HTPC; ways to conceal cables or pieces of theater equipment (ie. projector)

 

[fufanuer]

Answers to the Contest Questions

Questions

1. How do you buy your high-end audio products today? Why?
Online - Cheaper, and I have more control. I like to research options for myself, rather than having some installer or specialty store tell me what to buy. Although, I've been in some specialty stores that I would gladly spend the money for their help--If I had that kind of money
Specialty Retail Store
Custom Installer

2. What three consumer electronics products in the market today are you most excited about and why?

1 - Receivers with TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio.
2 - Blu Ray picture and sound quality.
3 - Discrete 7.1 sound tracks.

3. What is your most treasured audio component?

Very hard. I will go with my new amp: Adcom GFA7500 Amp. Second place is my JBR Century L100's.

4. What areas of the consumer electronics industry (specifically audio/video) do you feel are untapped and offer the most potential from new technology?

Bass management for multiple subwoofers. Both for surround sound (LFE) and for stereo (L sub and R sub) listening. My ideal is a receiver/pre-amp that can process 2 or 4 subwoofers in surround mode by sending the LFE signal to all subs (or maybe separate information to different locations -this could prove interesting if a car blows up behind you!). Also, stereo sound integrated with the subwoofers is very important. A left and right tower speaker with left and right subs. Right channel information goes to the right sub and left channel information goes to the left sub when playing sources in stereo mode.

 

[Phoenyx]

1. How do you buy your high-end audio products today? Why?
Online
Specialty Retail Store
Custom Installer

I feel that being able to actually listen to the speakers allows for better judgement. Not only that, most owners are typically passionate about what they do.

2. What three consumer electronics products in the market today are you most excited about and why?

iPhone 4S - I've had a 3GS for a while now and with most of my friends upgrading to the 4S, it's been on my mind.
SVS Sound SB12-NSD - I'm actually looking for a sub and still on the fence about what to buy.
Marantz 7025 amp - Gotta power my speakers some how or another. The question is, sub or amp first?


3. What is your most treasured audio component?

My first pair of audiophile speakers - CM5s.

4. What areas of the consumer electronics industry (specifically audio/video) do you feel are untapped and offer the most potential from new technology?

Incorporating typical technology. With the majority of my own music as MP3, I feel that this industry can use a update. Not only that, but having iPhones carry thousands of songs, something needs to be done!

 

[oldnkranky]

1. How do you buy your high-end audio products today? Why?

Online. I don't have a lot to spend and online generally offers the best value. Also, I can avoid know nothing salesmen completely.


2. What three consumer electronics products in the market today are you most excited about and why?
1. The Sunfire Rosa (not sure if that's the name, it's the flat one). Finally a subwoofer that's free of cabinet noise and most of the size.
2. The re-emergence of the LP. I take this as proof that sound quality is still an issue.
3. Digital switching amps. They have the ability to put lots of clean power in your hands at a good price.

3. What is your most treasured audio component?
My Denon AV receiver. Without it, I've got no audio or video. I'd have to READ!!!

4. What areas of the consumer electronics industry (specifically audio/video) do you feel are untapped and offer the most potential from new technology?
System integration and general ergonomics. It shouldn't be so hard to hook up an AV system, let alone hooking a PC into your system. Why can't my PC do all of my component switching, powering on/off, etc.. Instead I've got universal remote with macros for this and I can't use most functions on my computer without a keyboard. A HTPC SHOULD do all of my IR/RF/Bluetooth switching, record my cable, receive and decode cable pay per view, archive my DVDs and BluRays, and have a remote that's easy for anyone in the family to operate. Maybe if Apple makes their rumored TV it will address some of these issues.

 

[jcPanny]

AH Contest

Questions

1. How do you buy your high-end audio products today? Why?
Online - convenient, best prices, and direct to consumer sources.

2. What three consumer electronics products in the market today are you most excited about and why?
3D Bluray, HD front projectors, and video calibration equipment - For basement Home Theater project.

3. What is your most treasured audio component?
Onix Reference series speakers

4. What areas of the consumer electronics industry (specifically audio/video) do you feel are untapped and offer the most potential from new technology?
Audio/Video streaming technology, HD quality 3D video broadcast.

 

[charlienothing]

1. How do you buy your high-end audio products today? Why?
Online - Mostly online. I can research products, find reviews, and typically find the best prices.
2. What three consumer electronics products in the market today are you most excited about and why?

Galaxy Nexus - Im a big android fan, and then phone is beautifully designed.

DSLR cameras with HD video recording - This has allowed several of my friends to get a foot in the door in the video industry. Before they had to work for others before they could not afford the gear, now they are producing amazing results for a fraction of the price.

My Xbox - This platform is still getting better. With the recent announcement of providing cable tv it is becoming a one stop component for media in my house. If only they would release a blu ray version.

3. What is your most treasured audio component? An old tube radio passed down from my grandparents. Still works.

4. What areas of the consumer electronics industry (specifically audio/video) do you feel are untapped and offer the most potential from new technology?

I agree with other posts on this thread that home automation/integration with the home theater and one stop remote is still an untapped market, especially with affordable solutions.

 

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[cogwemgoorp]

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[amacks]

Answers

1. How do you buy your high-end audio products today? Why?

Online
Specialty Retail Store
Custom Installer

Specialty store. I like to see/hear products before buying

2. What three consumer electronics products in the market today are you most excited about and why?

* LCD/LED Tvs, lighter weight and brighter
* Boxee, a streaming solution that passes the "random stranger can use it without an hour of instruction" test
* better iphone-as-a-remote-control - most remotes, even logitec programmables kinda suck

3. What is your most treasured audio component?
NAD 743 receiver, everything has to go through it

4. What areas of the consumer electronics industry (specifically audio/video) do you feel are untapped and offer the most potential from new technology?
Control (see iPhone comment). We've got power for audio and bandwidth for video, but controlling all of it is still more annoying then it should be

 

[highfly]

Questions

1. How do you buy your high-end audio products today? Why?

• Online
• Specialty Retail Store
• Custom Installer

Online primarily but will buy locally if prices are comparable. Once bought a flatscreen from Dell online and received it cracked. Hence some items are too cumbersome to buy online.

2. What three consumer electronics products in the market today are you most excited about and why?

a. Android based tablets as Apple and Microsoft has no room in our house
b. Built in (wall) speakers as I want better sound but the other half wants fewer wires and hidden speakers.
C. Computer based media servers for the whole house with easy distribution.




3. What is your most treasured audio component?

Very easy: Denon AVR2807

4. What areas of the consumer electronics industry (specifically audio/video) do you feel are untapped and offer the most potential from new technology?

Cloud based streaming of media content. Imagine XM meet Pandora but for all media, anywhere.

 

[kleinwl]

Me!!!! ME!!! oh... not me...

How do you buy your high-end audio products today? Why?
Online - DEFINITELY - lowest cost option out there
Specialty Retail Store
Custom Installer

I have few dollars to spend, so making sure that I can get high quality stuff inexpensively is my plan. I would like to use a retailer/installer, but I just can't afford it. Most online stores allow you to test the equipment out at home anyway!

2. What three consumer electronics products in the market today are you most excited about and why?

SSD drives. Quiet HTPC! Finally, having a small box to play my movies and music with out having to turn the vol up to cover up the fan noise.

Android phone/tablets - good very flexible plateforms for storing movies, books, games, songs. Why isn't there a plug in, like the apple ipod docs yet?

Automatic room balancing. I don't know how to effectively set up speakers? The more the software can do to ease me through it the better.

3. What is your most treasured audio component?

My most treasured audio component has to be the hard-drive in my HTPC where all the music is... (please don't crash...please don't crash!!!)

4. What areas of the consumer electronics industry (specifically audio/video) do you feel are untapped and offer the most potential from new technology?

The most untapped area is the GUI for the recievers. Seriously, TV sets GUIs and Reciever GUIs are typically so non-user friendly that most people are still watching their TV in torch mode. If there was a GUI that could handle all the settings with a simple handshake you would see many more consumers buying HT systems, rather than doing without. Why should programing a 3rd party remote take forever? Why is a 3rd party remote even necessary? I've got boxes and manuals coming out of my ears because no one in the industry talks to each other about setting up a datalink and a industry standard GUI.
Look at computers. When you log into the motherboard setup, you can set up CPU frequencies, unlock multipliers, basically change settings for almost every hardware item in the computer regardless of who manufactured it.

 

[cinemasavvy]

Questions

1. How do you buy your high-end audio products today? Why?

Online - for generic items like cables because pricing can be significantly better than many big box retailers
Specialty Retail Store - for items like BNC cables and processors/scalers where I am looking for knowledge and experience related to bigger ticket purchases, nothing beats non-big-box brick and mortar based experts.
Custom Installer - sometimes, you just can't find an item anywhere else and CI specialists also get my business.


2. What three consumer electronics products in the market today are you most excited about and why?
1) video projectors 2) "internet radio tuners" 3) the much maligned RIM Playbook

3. What is your most treasured audio component?
Tie between my Zoom H2 digital recorder and vintage Crown CX-822 reel to reel with DBX type I NR.

4. What areas of the consumer electronics industry (specifically audio/video) do you feel are untapped and offer the most potential from new technology?

Personal video via cloud that's easy to use and convenient for large format presentation. Lawrence of Arabia on an iPad just can't draw you in like a big screen and good sound at home.

 

[baniels]

1. How do you buy your high-end audio products today? Why?
Online - Because I live in the middle of nowhere. If I drive an hour I'd hit a best buy, and if they had something I wanted, I could find it for cheaper online.
Specialty Retail Store - No such thing exists in my area. If they did, I'd go there to dream and audition things outside my price range.
Custom Installer - I have gone to my local custom installer for RCA-BNC adapters. If I didn't need them that day, I'd have ordered online.

2. What three consumer electronics products in the market today are you most excited about and why?

1. I'm excited about 4K displays and content. I've survived with 720P long enough that maybe I can just skip over 1080P.
2. I'm excited about 18"+ high excursion, low distortion subwoofer drivers.
3. Hard drive/cloud-based/DLNA access to content in general. I love that I can access 90% of my audio/video content from non-disc sources.

3. What is your most treasured audio component?
My front left and right mains. I built them myself and couldn't replace them as I could most anything else in my system.

4. What areas of the consumer electronics industry (specifically audio/video) do you feel are untapped and offer the most potential from new technology?
Streaming high resolution audio. Even just streaming 16/44.1. If the bandwidth is available to stream 1080p +5.1 over the internet, then there's no reason I shouldn't have a few accessible options for streaming CD quality (or better) audio.

 

[picture_shooter]

Questions

1. How do you buy your high-end audio products today? Why?


Online; why?
Because can shop a pricematch and no hassle to drive out and waste fuel


2. What three consumer electronics products in the market today are you most excited about and why?

*Projectors. They just get better and better and 3d is now available*.

*Home Automation . Too sweet!! I can turn on or off my ac from my cell phone when at work. I can control my surveillance / security system and open my door to my kids when they are at the door while I am at work. Other cool thing is I can turn on and off the power socket outlets from my cell, forget the kill-a-watt!

*Subwoofers. They just keep getting more and more interesting and performance they offer are getting better. How amazing when someone says sealed is better then ported if you listen to music more than movies and ported is better if watching movies than music? Oh really?? lols!!!

3. What is your most treasured audio component?

My Pioneer Elite receiver, because w/o it I can't listen to my speakers & sub for movies, music and games.

4. What areas of the consumer electronics industry (specifically audio/video) do you feel are untapped and offer the most potential from new technology?


HDMI cable, what version is it at now?

 

[Reorx]

Answers

1. How do you buy your high-end audio products today? Why?
-I prefer to buy in a local store to support the local economy. But only if the prices are comparible. 1-2% mark up over online is acceptable.


2. What three consumer electronics products in the market today are you most excited about and why?
-LED Projectors - 50k hours without changing a bulb! wow!
-Whole home automation. Smart homes are the way to go. Control everything in your house from anywhere. ie: HVAC from your droid or iDevice.
-4k TV's and Projectors. A few are out, I wish more were. I love the quality...


3. What is your most treasured audio component?
-JBL Pro SP222. 1600W, 135db, of crystal clear audio from .5 miles away. Oh yeah, it's 1/2 the size of my refridgerator, and ugly, so it has been banished to the garage.
Damn women. (WAF sucks)


4. What areas of the consumer electronics industry (specifically audio/video) do you feel are untapped and offer the most potential from new technology?

-High Def movies available, day 1 of the theater release, at an affordable price. The movie industry does not seem to get it. The majority of the Movie theaters out there suck. More and more Home theaters are being created every day that rival them. Being able to pause the movie, and go to the bathroom, get a snack, put the kids to bed, etc.

-Audio. I've played musical instruments from 1st grade, through college. How come I can't close my eyes, and hear/feel the band in front of me. Without spending tens of thousands of dollars? I have gone to many homes, and specialty shops that claim to. They are close, but I still hear the speakers

Wooo is me.

Hopefully a high end set of RBH will solve my wooo, and bring me into nirvana.

Reorx

 

[dad311]

1. How do you buy your high-end audio products today? Why?
Online
Specialty Retail Store
Custom Installer

Online: No sales tax, unlimited selection, best prices.


2. What three consumer electronics products in the market today are you most excited about and why?
Streaming media boxes, because of abundant content.

Subs, with room correction, because room correction provides smoother bass.

DAC. A DAC can improve the sound of media being streamed via online sources.


3. What is your most treasured audio component?
Emotiva XPA-5 AMP.

4. What areas of the consumer electronics industry (specifically audio/video) do you feel are untapped and offer the most potential from new technology?

Easy to configure media servers. DVDs and CDs will be discontinued then where do we keep all soft media content?

 

[abboudc]

Questions

1. How do you buy your high-end audio products today? Why?

• Online
• Specialty Retail Store
• Custom Installer

Online.
2. What three consumer electronics products in the market today are you most excited about and why?

Smart TVs. Specifically Apple TV.
Home automation via wifi.
Next gen receivers with airplay.


3. What is your most treasured audio component?

SVS PC Ultra

4. What areas of the consumer electronics industry (specifically audio/video) do you feel are untapped and offer the most potential from new technology?

universal remotes.

 

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