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We didn’t think anything would top Goldmund’s $190,000 Telos 5000 amplifier, but we should have known better. Bloated excess knows no bounds, so coming in at a cool $1,000,000 per side, we’ve got Transmission Audio’s Ultimate speakers. Each channel consists of six, 7-foot high panels (one supertweeter ribbon, two tweeter/midrange ribbons, one 24×8-inch woofer, and two 10×15-inch subwoofer); taken together, a stereo pair of the Ultimates will eat up a modest 37-foot swath of your living room airplane hangar. Even people with more money than sense like convenience, though, so the Ultimate takes a page from the HTIB crowd and bundles in six 500-Watt dual-mono amplifiers and a preamp. At these prices, you’d think Transmission Audio could afford some bandwidth, but the company website has been stripped of photos at the moment, so hit the read link for more eye candy.

[Via CNET]

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Transmission Audio Ultimate speakers — $1M for the best monophonic sound ever originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In the “cool but totally unnecessary” category, we have the $8,000 NEC
CRV43, a widescreen display that curves around the user. And when NEC
says widescreen, they mean wide. With 2880-by-900
resolution, this display has an aspect ratio of 32:10, as opposed to
the standard widescreen 16:9.

The company has targeted this display at
a variety of high-end markets, including graphics, simulation, and
finance–but with its claimed response time of 0.02 ms, I wouldn’t expect
anything outside of the most intense PC gaming experience ever from
this beast of a monitor. Regardless of the user, the CRV43 would offer
a decidedly different experience (and cost) than anything else on the
market.

“The NEC CRV43 curved display provides an excitingly immersive viewing
experience for any type of user,” said Keith Yanke, Director of Product
Marketing for NEC Display Solutions.

NEC said the ultra-wide screen would eliminate the distractions of
having a multi-monitor setup, with gaps between screens infringing on
productivity. The display also contains USB 2.0 ports, as well as HDMI
and DVI-D connectivity. Despite the LCD-esque appearance, it is widely reported that the CRV43 is actually a LED-backlit DLP display.
No matter the technology, gamer bragging rights certainly don’t
come cheap.

Oh, right — we forgot that Sony’s not actually considering the VAIO P a “netbook,” but for all intents and purposes, it is. That being said, this highly decorated Aspire One easily blows the pants off of the aforesaid Sony, ringing up at $3,000 (minimum) on eBay. Why so pricey, you ask? No, there’s no liquid nitrogen-cooled Core 2 Quad within, nor will you find a CrossFireX graphics setup. What you will see, however, is hours upon hours of TLC poured into this one-of-a-kind machine by Japan’s own UFO-Hayashi. Still, for three large this better come bundled with peace, love and happiness for as long as the owner draws breath — something we’re definitely not seeing in the video after the break.

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Zen-filled Aspire One netbook makes VAIO P look cheap originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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