All-in-one products are always nice for consumers who are looking for easy and space efficient solutions. Naim Audio has come up with an all-in-one system that covers all of your audio bases. It includes an integrated amplifier, CD player, FM tuner, internet radio, iPod dock, digital-to-analog converter, music file player and network stream player. This might sound complex, but NaimUniti was designed with a user-friendly interface that makes operation and navigation very straightforward.  

Mark Glazier sees opportunity during the course of our country’s economic recession. Glazier is the president of Wisdom Audio; with his company’s corporate headquarters newly expanded, he recently invited international distributors from 14 different countries to Wisdom Audio’s first Sage Series international training event in Carson City, Nevada. “Even in this worldwide economic downturn we find ourselves in, custom is alive and well outside the U.S.,” said Glazier.

Just below the Upper East Side in Manhattan, Lutron opened its third Experience Showroom, a professional facility used not only as a showcase for the company’s lighting control systems, but also to serve as a hands-on center where dealers and designers alike can bring clients to experience them first-hand.

Simple design is often the most attractive. Modern design and manufacturing company, Salamander Designs, just released their new audio/video entertainment cabinet, the Madrid 5028—the second of their Madrid style series. The cabinet carries clean, sleek lines and comes fully assembled in a minimalist, yet practical design that provides spacious area for high-end electronic components. Its 50-inch double-wide construction has room for up to five components (or three components and center channel speaker).

French brand, Waterfall Audio, makers of those interesting all-glass speakers, has had some problems getting reliable distribution for the North American Market. After being linked to a couple of distributors that did not follow through, the company has inked a deal with AVR Distributing of Marietta, Georgia to represent and distribute their brand throughout North America.

In one of the more unusual launches out there, KEF introduced a speaker that doesn’t exist yet. They’ve even created a brochure for and launched a website. They are calling the “Blade” and it is the result of a three-year research project taken on by the company’s engineers in Maidston, Kent in the UK.

World Wide Stereo went on a mission to promote audio this week with an event called “Music Matters.” The long time A/V retail store started by Bob Cole, which turned 30 this year, operates two stores in the southeast Pennsylvania region. It created an invitation-only event for customers that focused on promoting the audio side of the business.

Krell is now shipping its latest surround sound preamplifier/processors, which capitalize on HDMI 1.3 and its range of support for new formats, such as Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD. There will be two models: the $10,000 S-1200 and the $12,000 S-1200U (the latter includes more bells and whistles such as 1080p upconversion. The preamp is designed around a pair of blazingly fast dual-core 32-bit Crystal CS497004 DSP’s.