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Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Soundbar speaker systems

Some enthusiasts want the accuracy of a full surround-sound speaker setup handling their home theater audio output, but judging from the number of soundbar solutions that have been hitting the marketplace, many people are willing to trade fidelity for a single speaker and often a subwoofer...

Tags: Audio, Home Theater, Speaker, Zvox, Polk, Home Entertainment, Tv & Home Theater, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-12-16

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Zvox Z-Base 575

Photo gallery:Zvox Z-Base 575Sound bars feel like they've been around forever now, but they're still a relatively new product; consider that the groundbreaking Yamaha YSP-1 debuted back at CES 2005. Since then, the exterior design of the units hasn't changed much, with the vast majority still consisting of a long...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Zvox Z-Base 575, HDTV, TV

Product reviews 2009-11-16

Zvox Z-Base 575 photos

The Zvox Z-Base 575 sound bar gets loud and delivers deep bass from its unique pedestal design, but it's expensive and has a bare-bones feature package. by CNET News.com

Tags: Design, Photograph, News.com, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-11-16

Zvox Z-Base 525

Photo gallery:Zvox Z-Base 525Surround sound and its accouterments tend to dominate a living room, requiring an AV receiver, several speakers, stands, and wires to make the whole thing work. That's why many people choose to skip surround sound, opting instead for the tinny acoustics of their TV speakers. Single-speaker solutions...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Zvox Z-Base 525, speaker, HDTV, TV

Product reviews 2009-11-11

Zvox Z-Base 525 photos

The Zvox Z-Base 525 sound bar delivers better-than-average sonics and its unique pedestal design will make you forget it's even there. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, News.com, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-11-11

Zvox Z-Base 550

Let's start with a clarification: Don't confuse the Zvox Z-Base 550 Low-Profile Single Cabinet Surround Sound System ($500) with any of those seriously svelte sound bar speakers crowding the market. It's not even comparable with Zvox's previous single-speaker soundbars, the 415 ($400) and 425 ($600). Those speakers were designed to...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Cable, Z-Base 550, Zvox Z-Base 550, speaker, TV, PhaseCue

Product reviews 2008-12-12

Zvox 325 (Black Finish)

Over the past few years, the market for single-speaker music and home-theater systems has grown by leaps and bounds, and it now includes offerings from Yamaha, Cambridge SoundWorks, and Polk. One of the first speakers to catch our fancy, the Zvox 315, is still available and priced at $199, which...

Tags: Pat Metheny, Zvox 325, speaker

Product reviews 2008-12-08

Denon DHT-FS5

Denon's DHT-FS5 is an unusually compact single speaker surround system with an unusually compact list price--just $500. That means it sells for less than half the asking price of its big brother, Denon's up market DHT-FS3. Even so, the two units have a lot in common: they're almost the...

Tags: Consumer electronics, DVD, Denon DHT-FS5, Denon, speaker

Product reviews 2008-12-04

Sony HT-CT100

It's a familiar story in consumer electronics: start with a luxurious, expensive, and exclusive product category, and within just a few years, you'll see a sea of imitators delivering the same basic item with more features, less money, and--ideally--better performance. Take single-speaker audio. Once the exclusive domain of Yamaha Digital...

Tags: Sony HT-CT100, speaker, HDMI, subwoofer, Sony Corp.

Product reviews 2008-06-05

Yamaha Air Surround YAS-70

Yamaha's YSP Digital Sound Projector single-speaker surround systems have been popular for good reason: they produce room-filling sound from a single speaker. The catch is they're expensive: list prices start around $700 (the YSP-900) and go up to $1,600 (for the excellent YSP-4000), and--because the higher-end models include video connections...

Tags: sub, Yamaha Corp., speaker, YSP Digital Sound Projector, Yamaha YAS-70, subwoofer, cable

Product reviews 2007-12-19

Zvox 425

Zvox makes nothing but TV speakers, and the advantages of specialization are amply evident in the newest model, the 425. At 37 inches wide, it's the biggest ever Zvox--and perfectly suited for pairing with a large, flat-screen display or rear-projection TV. Like its smaller brothers, the ultimate Zvox doesn't come...

Tags: TV & Home Theater, ZVOX 425, PhaseCue, speaker

Product reviews 2007-12-19

Zvox 325

Over the past few years, the market for single-speaker music and home-theater systems has grown by leaps and bounds, and it now includes offerings from Yamaha, Cambridge SoundWorks, and Polk. One of the first speakers to catch our fancy, the Zvox 315, is still available and priced at $199, which...

Tags: Zvox 325, speaker

Product reviews 2006-10-10

Zvox 315

Editors' Note: Since this review was published, Zvox has announced a follow-up product, the Zvox 325, that offers the improved styling and front-panel controls found on the Zvox Mini while offering a larger size and the greater sonic power of the 315. The Zvox 315 "sound console" is a one-box...

Tags: Consumer electronics, Digital music, TV & Home Theater, Media players, Digital media, Zvox 315, speaker, DVD

Product reviews 2006-03-22

Soundmatters MainstageHD

Don't have the room for a home-theater-in-a-box system HTIB or a component home-theater rig but still want better sound than your tinny TV speakers? Consider the Soundmatters MainstageHD ($400) single-speaker surround system. The smoothly sculptured "console" design is a stately silver and measures a scant 16.7 inches wide, 2.5 high,...

Tags: Cable, DVD, Consumer electronics, Soundmatters MainstageHD, speaker

Product reviews 2006-03-16

Zvox Mini surround-sound speaker system

We were knocked out by the original Zvox 315 "sound console" single-speaker surround system in 2004. In a field of tinny-sounding lifestyle speakers, the Zvox 315 had the overwhelming advantages of substantial size and clever engineering. The 315 put Zvox on the map, but its imposing girth made it a...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Mini, Zvox Mini, Zvox 315

Product reviews 2006-03-13