For some people, the draw of a heavy bass are the satisfying vibrations it causes. But, what if you don’t want to have the bass all that loud? What if you don’t want to wake the kids, or the neighbors with your annoying bass? That’s where the ButtKicker comes in. The ButtKicker is one of more »

If you have ever tried to hook up a whole-house entertainment system, it can easily become a real pain since you have to pull a whole lot of cables around the house. Black Box has come out with a new solution that allows for video and audio over Ethernet. You can take one display and watch it all over your home. This greatly simplifies installation of your networked home entertainment system since you would only have to run Ethernet cable.

Black Box has three different devices to handle this content delivery system. Two of the devices are transmitters. Of those two, one of them is a PCI-e card that you would install into your system. Another is a stand alone box. The remaining device is a receiver. You would just need to feed a transmitter your video and audio and be able to receive it wherever you have a Black Box receiver. This an interesting way to get some video on to an HDTV without directly hooking up a computer to it.

Banking on hopes that many consumers will use the now delayed digital transition as an opportunity to make the jump to HDTVs, Klipsch hopes to offer audio accompaniment at reasonable prices.

The only problem with Klipsch’s plan is that, of the three home audio systems it announced today, only one is south of the $500 mark. It is also interesting to note, that while Klipsch is seeking the the DTV set, they only expect their more modestly priced audio systems, the HD Theater 500 for $599.99 and the HD Theater 300 for $399.99, to be available for sale in March for the former and April for the latter.

VTech Communications has entered the home audio market with its IS9181 Internet radio receiver. It connects to 802.11 b & g networks, bringing the user over 11,000 Internet radio stations.

The device also allows the user to wirelessly access MP3, WMA, AAC, WAV and Real files stored on PC or Mac. It also includes a cable that allows the device to play files from a CD or MP3 player. This radio has built in stereo speakers and a subwoofer.

Anyone that has seen the glass shatter in response to the high pitch of the opera singer is bound to be as bemused as I am about the concept of a glass loud speaker. Waterfall Audio specializes in high end, expensive, handcrafted glass speakers. They are a French company with a pretty cool outlook on more »