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Pioneer’s Luxury LX01 Home Cinema
Pioneer has just announced the LX01 Home Cinema System, centered around
its 250GB hard disk drive recorder, with in-built digital TV tuner, HDMI
support and 1080p upscaling for DVDs.
The stylish dodecahedron shaped speakers have been designed to throw
sound around the room for a ‘fuller’ surround sound effect. We’re not sure how
this 'omni-directional audio' approach will work since there are just four
speakers, with the front two combining to replace the dedicated centre speaker
[dialogue] found in most 5.1 
surround sound set-ups.
Pioneer claims that these speakers will allow you to get the full
surround effect anywhere in the room, without the usual careful placement of
speakers. Again, we’ll believe our ears rather than the press release.
Beefing up that sound is the imposing sub-woofer and there’s a stylish
LCD touch-screen remote thrown in too. This glossy black number – which matches
the new HDTVs - will be arriving in October and it’s safe to say it will not be
cheap, so start saving now.
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