Enter to Win: Velodyne EQ-Max 10 Subwoofer!!!

[moslick]

Questions

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

ONLINE, easiest!

2. What three consumer electronics products in the market today are you most excited about and why?
1.Oppo Blueray -- Need to upgrade from my Oppo DVD player
2. Networked products -- The more we integrate into our home networks the better. Better control, better options!
Sonos -- integrated Ipod, music.... throughout the house

3. What is your most treasured audio component?

My Denon 1909 Receiver

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

In ceiling/wall speakers. I think the "clean" look will begin to take off.

 

[jawhn]

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

Online
This is the way I USUALLY go. I like to do my own research and "BANG FOR THE BUCK" is important in this economy.

Specialty Retail Store
The closest thing I have near me is a BEST BUY, where there is little knowledge and most electronics are set up poorly.

Custom Installer
For some things like Calibration and Room Treatments I would like to use a Custom Installer, but most are WAY out of my price range and the results I've seen very widely.

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

1. Wireless technology
It has the POTENTIAL to make every electronic product better (less clutter, flexible placement and a VERY HIGH Wife Acceptance Factor). Most Wireless products today are not there yet, but the possibilities are endless.

2. Auto Calibration
Most A/V forum members at least ATTEMPT to set up their systems with test disks, but there is only so far you can go without REAL test equipment. Taking the HUMAN factor out of the equation SHOULD produce better results. Also, the AVERAGE consumer never even attempts to set their electronics correctly.

3. Projectors
Great projectors are becoming affordable and NOTHING says THEATER like a BIG screen (although GREAT sound is equally important).

3. What is your most treasured audio component?

My Yamaha A/V Receiver
Audio and Video switching along with Network capability make getting to my content much easier.

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

1. Remote Controls
I've tried every thing from the CHEAP universal remotes to my cousins VERY EXPENSIVE custom Crestron. And although the more expensive ones definitely work better the fact that you can't program them yourself, and the high price, make them unsuitable for the average person. Remotes like the Harmony line still have limited customization.

2. Cloud distribution
Again, the POTENTIAL is there, but CURRENT bandwidth limitations in this country are the biggest problem. For me, only Audio and Video quality EQUAL to Bluray would be acceptable. I'm not interested in going BACKWARD in quality for added convenience.

 

[grateful4music]

Velodyne EQ-Max 10 Subwoofer

1. How do you buy your high-end audio products today? Why?
Online: I tend to do a lot of research before I buy, so I appreciate the increased selection and, often, lower prices that online shopping offers.


2. What three consumer electronics products in the market today are you most excited about and why?
1) USB DACs for computer audio playback because they offer an easy connection to high quality sound from one of the most versatile digital music playback systems--the PC

2) Blu-Ray for its Hi-Res audio capabilities. I'm a fan of SACD and DVD-Audio, but they never made much headway as formats. Blu-Ray is already established, and its "standard" audio capabilities already exceed that of DVD-Audio

3) iPhone 4S because it's my first step into the world of Smartphones

3. What is your most treasured audio component?
Currently, my HRT Music Streamer II USB DAC

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 guess, Hi-Res music downloads coupled with music servers for streaming high quality music throughout your house.

 

[marriedgeek]

1. How do you buy your high-end audio products today? Why?
Specialty Retail Store. I need to be able to HEAR what I'm buying.


2. What three consumer electronics products in the market today are you most excited about and why?
Roku-style products - streaming HD and 5.1 audio content, making me think about dropping cable!
Blu-ray - I have no reason to go to a crowded theater again.
NAS devices - Being able to network all your content across multiple machines for viewing

3. What is your most treasured audio component?
My trusty, low-end Yahama rx-v367, as it's part of my first component home theater 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?
Higher-quality streaming audio. I need something more than 192kbps.

 

[BobBart]

1. Buy online.
2.Nas device,3d products, oled technology.
3.pioneer vsx23thx
4.Hires surround sound audio.

 

[CoolBob]

It's all about the sound for me.

Questions

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

Online - Only in-store options within 250-miles of me are Walmart or BestBuy.

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

Speakers - Still the weakest link in the audio chain and the product with the most personality, electronics all sound very similar in my experience.

Headphones - for the same reasons as speakers.

Subwoofers - same reasons.

3. What is your most treasured audio component?

My pair of Omni-Sound two-way tower speakers. They employ modified Vifa tweets and hand-built Toby woofers and sound better to my ears than any speakers I have heard for less than $3k.

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

Speakers and subwoofers have come a long way in the past 20-years, but they still have the most potential for development in my opinion.

 

[duworm]

Lets win a Subwoofer

Questions

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

Online
Some but little at speciality store, there are not many left.

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

70 inch tv
The advances in AV Receivers
electronic equilizers


3. What is your most treasured audio component?

OPPO-93

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

Thin speakers

DUWORM

 

[Joel47]

Questions

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

Online. Better prices, and it's easier to get refurbished/used stuff.

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

Android/iPad remote controls.
Room correction hardware (subwoofer or wideband).
HTPCs.

3. What is your most treasured audio component?
SVS PB12+/2

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

Room correction. Outside of dedicated rooms, it's hard to get good-looking room treatments. While room correction isn't perfect, the better it is, the better things sound.

 

[jconde]

cotest entry

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

I buy my stuff online because it is more convenient and cheaper


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

HTPC, HD streamers and oled TV. I am always looking for the most convenience and the best picture and sound

3. What is your most treasured audio component?

My Aperion 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?

Truly high quality streaming is the new frontier. The minute they get that right it will be the end of media as we know it.

 

[krandy]

Subwoofer Contest

Questions

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

Online
Specialty Retail Store
Custom Installer

I mostly purchase online. It is easier to research products online and the price is usually good.

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

Kindle Fire because of the reasonable price and interesting functionality.
GPS because of its almost unlimited potential.
WiFi because it has become the internet connection of choice.

3. What is your most treasured audio component?

My desktop computer because I listen to online classical music throughout the day. Maybe I should add the Cambridge Soundworks speakers that I listen through. They are great.

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 think video has the most untapped potential.

NOTE this contest ends on December 31st, 2011. The winner will be drawn shortly thereafter.

 

[dapig]

Survey

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

Usually on line, not a lot of good shops in my area.


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

Audio apps, streaming services, anything that sounds good


3. What is your most treasured audio component?

Denon 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?

IP integration and streaming

 

[Wheatenterrier]

1. Online, folks at shops are not always nice to talk to.
2. Projectors, subs, screens. Because those are the things I plan on buying.
3. My svs speakers
4. Universal remotes or apps for iPhone/android turning them into universal remotes.

 

[tom1276]

1. How do you buy your high-end audio products today? Online Why?
Online gets me the biggest bang for my buck.

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

HDMI connections because it is high quality audio/visual and easy (and cheap).

Blue Ray because of the high end audio/visual reproduction with very low distortion.

Surround sound technology because it has the potential of making listening and watching concerts and movies as good at home as you can get live or in the theatre.


3. What is your most treasured audio component?

Tough choice but I will go with my Velodyne FSX-12 sub.

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

Lossless audio in 5.1 and up surround sound. I really look forward to listening to music in ways that will take full advantage of today's theatrical sound stage technology.

Wireless. I would love to see wireless technology developed to the point that speaker wires are no longer needed. Not even close yet but hopefully someday...

Quality control needs higher priority. Many exciting products often have quality issues that appear within the first year of ownership. As a consumer I expect the bugs to be worked out well before the product is on my shelf. Onkyo appears to be one of the worst offenders but they are not alone in needing to up their build standards.

 

[gulmer]

1. How do you buy your high-end audio products today? Why?
If I where to be in the situation to buy high end audio gear, I would probably buy from online store, like an Oppo Blu-Ray player from Oppo.com.

2. What three consumer electronics products in the market today are you most excited about and why?
A new Panasonic plasma HDTV, love the look of a plasma tv over an LCD.
An Oppo blu-ray player, best player for the money.
An IPAD2, that's a consumer electronic, isn't it? because it's so cool and portable.

3. What is your most treasured audio component?
I would have to say my Oppo DVD player, to play my SACD's and DVD Audio discs on and of course, DVDs.

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

You got me there. Just can't think of anything unless you would consider quality wireless audio/video in that.

 

[alpnut]

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

Specialty Retail Store- Support the local guy & usually have a good chance of finding a deal in the process


2. What three consumer electronics products in the market today are you most excited about and why?
1. Blu-ray- lossless, lossless, lossless 2. Home automation/integration- 3. iPhone/iPad- seems like the potential is just barely being tapped or home control

3. What is your most treasured audio component?
The Denon AV amp on my wishlist

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

 

[Someday]

My Velodyne

1. How do you buy your high-end audio products today? Why?
Both online for most components and retail stores for speakers.
2. What three consumer electronics products in the market today are you most excited about and why?
Oppo Blu-ray but I think I can wait till the rest of the market catches up for lower price.


3. What is your most treasured audio component?

Logitech squeezebox touch

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

DACs, bluray performance, and higher res media streaming

 

[TheAudio]

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

Online. I like to take it slow and do a lot of research when buying anything. Plus i like the fact that I don't have people watching me or over me while shopping.


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

Ipod. Love the idea of having all the music I could possibly listen to while on the go and not having to carry multiple CDs.

The New Blackberry Bold. Love the sleek look and sturdy feel. Plus the new technology.

The new LED 3D televisions. Wow. How far have we came from the old 13 inch black and white TVs with the antenna.

3. What is your most treasured audio component?

My Onkyo Receiver.

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

Since purchasing a DVD player with Wifi, I think that will be the next big thing. Unbeliever picture from streaming Netflix. The ease of renting/watching movies. Wifi/ethernet capability on DVD players and TVs will be big.

 

[MacProCT]

My answers and entry...

1. How do you buy your high-end audio products today? Why?
Increasingly, I am buying gear that is a few years old on ebay, and trying it out in my own home. If I like it, I keep it. If I don't, it goes back on ebay.
Years ago, Tweeter was my retailer of choice. I started buying there at the age of 13. But Best Buy competition and some bad management drove them under and I can't really afford new gear nowadays anyways.

2. What three consumer electronics products in the market today are you most excited about and why?
I feel that Emotiva and Oppo are two companies that are making exceptional offerings. So I would have to say my first choice would be Emotiva's amps, second choice would be Oppo's bluray player. My third choice would be any component that has Audyssey room compensation built-in. It makes a big difference and certainly makes a system more accurate (when used in "flat" mode).

3. What is your most treasured audio component?
My Pioneer CD player from the late 90's. Because it's still humming along, still looks great, still sounds great, and has the cool stable playback platform (onto which you place the disc upside down) that reduces jitter by stopping the disc from vibrating in the first place.

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 think the potential for "smart home" integration with A/V gear is very strong. That hasn't gone anywhere in the last 20 years -- outside of what customer installers can do for tons of money -- despite nothing stopping it from happening. I think this has to eventually come to consumers at an affordable price. If only CE manufacturers would collaborate and come up with a common controlling interface/protocol.

 

[fokakis1]

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

Online. I like to research products online rather than deal with a salesman.


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

I like products that have DLNA. This technology is changing the way we handle media.

Tablets. It's about time we replaced the laptop.

Class D amplifiers. Smaller, lighter, and less heat.


3. What is your most treasured audio component?

A pair of DIY subs I spent weeks building.

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

This may sound crazy, but WOMEN. Women make almost 2/3's of the household buying decisions. However, most A/V products are still unappealing to them. Smart TV and soundbars seem to be getting some attention from the females, but GOOD audio is usually overlooked and is unappealing to them

 

[nezff]

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

Online. 99% of the time you get the best prices through online dealers. Not much overhead leads to better pricing for the customers


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

iPhone 5. Another awesome product from apple.

bigger more affordable LCD and plasma tvs. They always looke better than PJs to me.

Audyssey room correction. who cant live without awesome room correction




3. What is your most treasured audio component?

Dual 18 subs

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

wireless av
home automation
wireless projectors