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The Ender Quartet Set: Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead,
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Card, Orson Scott, PUBLISHER: Tor Books, This boxed set contains "Ender's Game," "Speaker for the Dead," "Xenocide," and "Children of the Mind." "Ender's Game" Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training. Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender's two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives. "Speaker for the Dead" In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth. "Xenocide" The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the hearts of a child named Gloriously Bright. On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and Pequeninos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought. Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the Pequeninos require in order to become adults. The Starways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered the destruction of the entire planet, and all who live there. The Fleet is on its way, a second xenocide seems inevitable. "Children of the Mind" The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos; a larg
Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe: An Encyclopedia
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wilson, K. / Wilson, Katharina M. / Schlueter, June, PUBLISHER: Routledge, A valuable survey and reference resource It is hard to imagine a more needed and more useful literary reference work than this one, which gives students and readers quick access to the lives and work of a wide range of notable female writers from England and the Continent, from Aphra Behn to Emily Bronte, from Simone de Beauvoir to Isak Dinesen, from Bridget of Sweden to Hannah Arendt. Writers in more than 30 languages are included: French, Czech, Greek, Italian, Swedish, Spanish, German, Russian, Portuguese, Serbian, Catalan, Arabic, Hebrew, Dutch, Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovak, and more. Covers years and all major genres Going back 15 centuries, the "Encyclopedia" covers the authors of novels, short stories, poetry, plays, criticism, social commentary, feminist manifestos, romances, mysteries, memoirs, children's literature, biography, and other genres. In signed entries, some of which are mini-essays, experts in the field examine writers' lives and achievements, comment on individual works, place artistic efforts in historical context, provide insights and analyses, and present more information than can be easily found elsewhere without undertaking more exhaustive research. Each entry is followed by a bibliography of primary works. Indexed by language, nationality, genre, and century. Spotlights the interesting lives of notable writers In these pages students and readers will meet hundreds of interesting women writers who made lasting contributions to the intellectual and popular culture of their countries while often leading fascinating lives, among them: * AGATHA CHRISTIE, who wrote her first book in response to her sister's demand for a detective story that was harder to solve than the popular fiction of her day, and whose work has been translated in more languages than Shakespeare's. * HILDEGARD VON BINGEN, the 12th-century German mystic, who wrote profusely as a prophet, a poet, a dramatist, a physician, and a political moralist, often communicated with popes and princes, and exerted a tremendous influence on the Western Europe of her time * MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY, whose masterpiece "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus " became a literary sensation around the world * ILSE BLUMENTHAL-WEISS, one of the few concentration camp survivors to memorialize the victims of the Holocaust in German verse * LINA WERTMULLER, who in addition to her work in films, has written plays for the stage and a novel, and who once was a member of a short-lived puppet theater that staged the works of Kafka. Special features: Ideal for quick reference and student research * Multicultural-covers over 30 languages and 15 centuries * Includes many contemporary writers * Provides essential biographic data on each writer * Each entry is followed by a chronological listing of the writer's published book-length works * Offers critical evaluations of major works * Indexes help find writers by country...research by ti
Where Are You Now?
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Clark, Mary Higgins, PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster, From America's Queen of Suspense comes a gripping tale of a young woman trying to unravel the mystery of a family tragedy -- a quest with terrifying repercussions. It has been ten years since twenty-one-year-old Charles MacKenzie Jr. ("Mack") went missing. A Columbia University senior, about to graduate and already accepted at Duke University Law School, he walked out of his apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side without a word to his college roommates and has never been seen again. However, he does make one ritual phone call to his mother every year: on Mother's Day. Each time, he assures her he is fine, refuses to answer her frantic questions, then hangs up. Even the death of his father, a corporate lawyer, in the tragedy of 9/11 does not bring him home or break the pattern of his calls. Mack's sister, Carolyn, is now twenty-six, a law school graduate, and has just finished her clerkship for a civil court judge in Manhattan. She has endured two family tragedies, yet she realizes that she will never be able to have closure and get on with her life until she finds her brother. She resolves to discover what happened to Mack and why he has found it necessary to hide from them. So this year when Mack makes his annual Mother's Day call, Carolyn interrupts to announce her intention to track him down, no matter what it takes. The next morning after Mass, her uncle, Monsignor Devon MacKenzie, receives a scrawled message left in the collection basket: "Uncle Devon, tell Carolyn she must not look for me." Mack's cryptic warning does nothing to deter his sister from taking up the search, despite the angry reaction of her mother, Olivia, and the polite disapproval of Elliott Wallace, Carolyn's honorary uncle, who is clearly in love with Olivia. Carolyn's pursuit of the truth about Mack's disappearance swiftly plunges her into a world of unexpected danger and unanswered questions. What is the secret that Gus and Lil Kramer, the superintendents of the building in which Mack was living, have to hide? What do Mack's old roommates, the charismatic club owner Nick DeMarco and the cold and wealthy real estate tycoon Bruce Galbraith, know about Mack's disappearance? Is Nick connected to the disappearance of Leesey Andrews, who had last been seen in his trendy club? Can the police possibly believe that Mack is not only alive, but a serial killer, a shadowy predator of young women? Was Mack also guilty of the brutal murder of his drama teacher and the theft of his taped sessions with her? Carolyn's passionate search for the truth about her brother -- and for her brother himself -- leads her into a deadly confrontation with someone close to her whose secret he cannot allow her to reveal.
Libri nuovi o usati - Jennings Dan Brown Yoshimoto Gruber
Libri nuovi o usati ottime condizioni - Jennings Dan Brown Yoshimoto Gruber Larsson Ritiro a Milano, zona piazza Susa/Dateo, spedizione via posta prioritaria piego dilibri a 2 euro, pagamento anticipato con bonifico bancario. IN LINGUA ORIGINALE (inglese) An artist of the floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro (lingua originale) Whitbread Book of the year Tascabile â€" 204 pg â€" Faber and Faber Edition The remains of the day - Kazuo Ishiguro (lingua originale) Winner of the booker prize Tascabile â€" 204 pg â€" Faber and Faber Edition The scottish terrier â€" Dorothy Caspersz (lingua originale) Copertina rigida â€" 182 pg â€" ed. Popular dogs Italiano Sonno profondo - Banana Yoshimoto Collana “I Canguri†â€" 139 pg - Feltrinelli Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto Collana “I Canguri†â€" 148 pg - Feltrinelli N.P. - Banana Yoshimoto Collana “I Canguri†â€" 164 pg - Feltrinelli Tsugumi - Banana Yoshimoto Tascabile â€" 158 pg - Universale economica Feltrinelli Racconti - Hermann Hesse Tascabile â€" 282 pg â€" Oscar Mondadori â€" Thomas Greanias - Il sigillo della nuova Atlantide - (fantasy/fantascienza) ed. Longanesi, copertina rigida con sovracopertina, P.C. & Kristin Cast - Betrayed (dalle autrici di "Marked"). ed Nord, copertina rigida con sovracopertina, 366 pg Uomini che odiano le donne - Stieg Larsson 676pg “farfalle†- Marsilio America anno zero Lilli Gruber 301pg Rizzoli cop rigida Lilli Gruber - Streghe, la riscossa delle donne d'Italia, ed. Rizzoli, copertina rigida con sovracopertina, 387 pg Tokaido - Lucia St. Clair Robson (romanzo storico ambientato nel giappone feudale) Copertina rigida con sovracopertina 420pg - New press Yes Man - Danny Wallace (romanzo umoristico da cui è stato tratto il film con Jim Carrey) Copertina morbida 405 pg Mondadori Inter, abbiamo un problema...o no? Interisti.org Copertina morbida 258 pg TEA La verità del ghiaccio - Dan Brown Copertina rigida con sovracopertina 537 pg Mondadori Crypto Dan Brown 424 pg Mondadori cop rigida Il supplizio del legno di sandalo - Mo Yan Copertina rigida 505 pg Einaudi Gengis Khan - Homeric (romanzo storico) Copertina rigida con sovracopertina 448 pg Rizzoli Merlino e il regno incantato - Nikolai Tolstoy (romanzo storico/fantasy) Copertina rigida con sovracopertina638 pg Rusconi Il sangue dell'azteco - Gary Jennings (romanzo storico) Copertina rigida con sovracopertina 931 pg Rizzoli I fenomeni del paranormale - Paola Giovetti (saggistica) Copertina rigida con sovracopertina 234 pg Mondadori La battaglia di tebe - Nagib Mahfuz (romanzo storico) Copertina rigida con sovracopertina 222 pg Newton & Compton Indiana Jones e l'ultima crociata - Rob MacGregor (romanzo) Copertina rigida con sovracopertina 225 pg euroclub Il nome della rosa - Umberto Eco (romanzo storico) Copertina rigida con sovracopertina 467 pg La Repubblica Scontro finale - Bruno Vespa (attualità) Copertina rigida con sovracopertina 359 pg Mondadori Mosè il principe d'egitto - Messadiè (romanzo storico) Copertina morbida 373 pg SuperBur Rajah - Gisbert Haefs (romanzo storico) Copertina rigida con sovracopertina 431 pg Tropea Una storia che è anche la mia - Luca Goldoni (biografico) Copertina rigida con sovracopertina 94 pg Mondadori Il libro del sole - Helena Rubinstein (manuale estetica) Copertina rigida 230 pg Euroclub Vizi veleni velette - Marina Ripa di Meana (romanzo giallo barocco) Copertina rigida con sovracopertina 363 pg Mondadori Il paradiso spezzato - John Ralston Saul (romanzo) Copertina rigida con sovracopertina 305 pg Euroclub Il sangue di montezuma - Oakland Ross (romanzo storico) Copertina morbida 428 pg Piemme pocket 200 La guerra del peloponneso vol primo - Tucidide Testo greco a fronte Copertina morbida 473 pg Bur Il pascolo dei Calder - Janet Dailey (romanzo) Copertina morbida 454 pg Sperling Storie incredibili di Steven Spielberg - Steven Bauer (racconti) Copertina morbida 253 pg tascabili Sonzogno Tikal - Daniel Peters (romanzo storico) Copertina morbida 588 pg SuperBur Viaggio nella scienza - Piero Angela (divulgazione scientifica) Copertina morbida 542 pg Mondadori Super Miti Guida alla scienza per quasi tutti - John Gribbin (divulgazione scientifica) Copertina morbida 332 pg Longanesi UFO costellazione miraggio - Giordano Pitt (fantascienza) Copertina rigida con sovracopertina 260 pg Mursia Il sesto uomo - Serge Jacquemard (romanzo giallo) Copertina morbida 249 pg Mondadori Inferno sul golfo - Harold Coyle (romanzo di guerra) Copertina rigida con sovracopertina 414 pg Euroclub Otto racconti contro la paura - presenta Alfred Hitchcock (racconti) Copertina rigida 152 pg Valecchi editore
Meridian Explorer DAC Audiophile USB
Meridian Explorer Dac Audio USB Digital media form an increasingly popular source of entertainment, with superb ease of access. Now there’s no need to compromise quality to achieve that convenience. Explorer is the size of a USB stick, yet embodies the same style and performance as any other Meridian product. SIMPLY LISTEN Explorer replaces your computer’s sound card with a USB-powered DAC (Digital to Analogue Converter) featuring Meridian’s high quality audio circuitry and design derived from Meridian’s award-winning Reference Series components, along with a powerful headphone amplifier with on-board analogue volume control. Whatever your choice of content – iTunes, Spotify®, YouTube® or a High Resolution downloaded file, Explorer makes it sound its best. Simply by plugging it in and listening with it, you’ll experience significantly higher sound quality. Asynchronous USB Audio Class Compliant 2.0 HS 480Mb/s for best-in-class performance Highest resolution on the market (24-bit/192kHz) 192kHz fixed & variable analogue and 96kHz optical outputs 6-layer circuit board with audiophile-grade components throughout USB-powered; plugs into any computer with a USB port As with all Meridian products, our goal in developing the Explorer is to help you enjoy the music you love with the very highest quality playback, without compromise, using innovative engineering and technology. Inside the Explorer Audiophile music-grade electrolytic capacitors decouple the analogue audio stages, significantly improving the quality. Indeed, an enormous amount of careful design work has gone into the analogue circuitry of the Explorer, of which those capacitors are just a part. A significant proportion of the 6-layer circuit board is given over to analogue, not digital, circuitry. Attention to detail Explorer comes with a short USB cable instead of plugging straight into the computer like a dongle: there’s no danger of damaging the computer motherboard if you accidentally walk off with your headphones on. Instead of a plastic box, Explorer has a sturdy aluminium enclosure, reducing noise and interference as well as allowing it to withstand life on the move. Analogue volume control Most DACs simply alter the digital signal going into them, so the quieter you listen, the lower the quality. Explorer uses an analogue volume control, driven from the operating system, so you always enjoy the full digital resolution. Additional outputs As well as headphones, Explorer includes analogue and S/PDIF digital optical outputs. Connect Explorer to your home audio system and enjoy the ultimate in replay quality from your computer. It provides a fixed-level output so you can use your system’s volume control – for the very highest quality at any listening level. True Class 2 USB audio device Explorer has extended digital bandwidth, playing audio up to 192kHz sampling. You can plug it anywhere in your system – into a USB hub for example – not only direct into the computer. Fully asynchronous Explorer includes dual high-quality oscillators, based on those found in Meridian’s top-of-the-line Reference Series components, so it can handle any standard sample rate up to 192kHz with minimal jitter and thus improved clarity and stereo imaging. Power Explorer is a true Class 2 audio device and is powered entirely from the interface, with no additional power supply required. Simply plug it in to any USB port. Inputs USB mini type B. Outputs 3.5mm combination analogue/digital jack with mini Toslink digital optical
The Charlemagne Pursuit
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Berry, Steve, PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton General Division, ONE Garmisch, Germany Tuesday, December 11, The Present 1:40 pm Cotton Malone hated enclosed spaces. His current unease was amplified by a packed cable car. Most of the passengers were on vacation, dressed in colorful garb, shouldering poles and skis. He sensed a variety of nationalities. Some Italians, a few Swiss, a handful of French, but mainly Germans. He'd been one of the first to climb aboard and, to relieve his discomfort, he'd made his way close to one of the frosty windows. Ten thousand feet above and closing, the Zugspitze stood silhouetted against a steel- blue sky, the imposing gray summit draped in a late- autumn snow. Not smart, agreeing to this location. The car continued its giddy ascent, passing one of several steel tres-tles that rose from the rocky crags. He was unnerved, and not simply from the crowded surroundings. Ghosts awaited him atop Germany's highest peak. He'd avoided this rendezvous for nearly four decades. People like him, who buried their past so determinedly, should not help it from the grave so easily. Yet here he was, doing exactly that. Vibrations slowed as the car entered, then stopped at the summit station. Skiers flooded off toward another lift that would take them down to a high- altitude corrie, where a chalet and slopes waited. He didn't ski, never had, never wanted to. He made his way through the visitor center, identified by a yellow placard as MYncher Haus. A restaurant dominated one half of the building, the rest housed a theater, a snack bar, an observatory, souvenir shops, and a weather station. He pushed through thick glass doors and stepped out onto a railed terrace. Bracing Alpine air stung his lips. According to Stephanie Nelle his contact should be waiting on the observation deck. One thing was obvious. Ten thousand feet in the high Alps certainly added a height-ened measure of privacy to their meeting. The Zugspitze lay on the border. A succession of snowy crags rose south toward Austria. To the north spanned a soup- bowl valley ringed by rock- ribbed peaks. A gauze of frosty mist shielded the German vil-lage of Garmisch and its companion, Partenkirchen. Both were sports meccas, and the region catered not only to skiing but also bobsledding, skating, and curling. More sports he'd avoided. The observation deck was deserted save for an elderly couple and a few skiers who'd apparently paused to enjoy the view. He'd come to solve a mystery, one that had preyed on his mind ever since that day when the men in uniforms came to tell his mother that her husband was dead. ""Contact was lost with the submarine forty- eight hours ago. We dispatched search and rescue ships to the North Atlantic, which have combed the last known position. Wreckage was found six hours ago. We waited to tell the families until we were sure there was no chance of survivors." " His mother had never cried. Not her way. But that didn't mean she wasn't devas
Meridian Sooloos MediaCore 200 Server Audio/Storage 1 TB
The award-winning Meridian Media Core 200 is a compact and elegant streaming solution that requires only your choice of controller to bring it to life. This compact system can store up to CD albums at full lossless quality, and enables you to seamlessly integrate your collection. STYLISH, COMPACT AND SILENT Extremely easy to connect and set up, it is also virtually silent in use. Simply choose which controller you wish to use – the free iPad or iPhone app, music streaming controller, or your computer. Featuring the full suite of Meridian’s world-leading audio enhancement DSP technology, it is a finely wrought blend of high-level engineering and sublime musical performance. DESIGNED FOR YOUR HOME Media Core 200 echoes the industrial design of Meridian’s streaming components, with a bead-blasted and anodized aluminium finish that cleverly hides the rear panel wire connections. EASY TO SET UP, EASY TO USE The design of Media Core 200 is cleverly based around a vertical mounting that does not need a fan – employing only convection cooling – so it runs virtually silent. This means it can be placed anywhere, including within your listening area, without affecting your enjoyment of the music. All the complexity is kept strictly ‘under the bonnet,’ so setting it up is very simple, and is little more than ‘plug and play.’ Just add your choice of controller-iPad, iPhone, computer, or other Meridian controller, for a complete streaming solution. Just add your choice of controller – iPad, iPhone, computer or other Meridian controller Internal storage for around CD albums in full lossless quality, via an internal 1TB drive Connect Media Core 200 to the Internet to manage and enjoy streamed audio services Import your existing digital music library, for example from iTunes®, using free Meridian software tools Full integration with Meridian audio systems. Can also be networked to any other Meridian streaming product, adding extra storage or zones Media Core 200 is extremely simple to connect and set up Fanless operation for minimum noise level, so it can be located anywhere, including within your listening area Consistent home friendly design, including recessed rear panel that hides cable entry On-board storage integrates automatically with other streaming libraries on the network Provides a single audio zone, accessible via analogue, digital and SpeakerLink for connection to any sound system Fully integrates with Meridian audio systems with centralised control The Media Core 200 acts as a Core component, automatically locating and integrating itself with other streaming components and stored libraries found on the same network, ensuring full interoperability. The Media Core 200 provides a single audio zone. Audio output options include Meridian SpeakerLink, digital coax, and single-ended analogue. Once connected to a Meridian system via SpeakerLink, the Media Core 200 immediately assumes the role of a source for Meridian communication protocols, allowing full integration with the Meridian system for control as well as audio. A web browser can be used to configure analogue output connection to fixed or variable analogue for maximum flexibility. Meridian Apodising Filter Filters are critical in digital audio. Commonly they introduce distortion and harshness because of "pre-ringing". Early digital recordings suffer from harshness too, due to primitive filters. After painstaking research, Meridian developed a special filter that avoids pre-ringing, so it can be steeper, cleaning up the effects of early filters. The result: a better, cleaner sound from recordings old and new. SpeakerLink Traditional audio systems often require large, expensive cables to maintain their performance. Meridian's SpeakerLink uses an “Ethernet style” cable that delivers pristine digital sound and control down a single cable between Meridian components. The result is simple, unobtrusive, and cost-effective cables that are easy to install. Network Interface 1x Ethernet (RJ45) Audio Connections Meridian SpeakerLink (RJ45) 1x S/PDIF coaxial digital output, RCA type Analogue stereo (RCA type), 2V P-P or variable level. Other Connections 2x USB connectors for future applications. Audio Processing Ultra-stable clock for lowest possible jitter Meridian’s apodising upsampling filter provides ultimate digital performance Indicator Single front-panel white LED pulses during startup and shutdown, solid during operation Power 12v DC,
ANTHEM Multi channel Preamplifier Audio - video Atmos-DTS:X
Garanzia 3 anni - assistenza italiana Audiophile-Friendly 11.2 Pre-Amplifier/Processor Multi-channel flexibility Few A/V Preamplifier-Processors offer the innovation and performance found in the all new AVM 60. Features include Dolby Atmos & DTS:X immersive audio decoding, support for UHD Blu-ray and 4K60 through HDMI 2.0a with HDR. HDCP 2.2 and 18.2 Gbps are also included allowing switching for compatibility with the latest video formats. Audiophile-friendly features include a toroidal power supply, premium differential-output D/A converters with 32-bit conversion and sampling rate optimized filters for hi-res sound. Premium A/D converters with 106 dB signal to noise ratio ensure the highest- quality sound when using analog sources. DTS Play-Fi offers easy-to-use music playback from popular streaming services and locally networked sources, controlled through iOS, Android or PC apps. 11.2 Pre-Amplifier Channels Dolby Atmos® DTS:X(TM) ARC(TM) Anthem Room Correction 4 Speaker Profile Memories Quad Core Digital Signal Processing Two Sub Out Jacks (parallel) Premium 32-bit / 768 kHz Differential-Output D/A Converters Wireless Network Connection DTS Play-Fi® - Local and Streaming HDMI & Video HDMI 2.0a HDCP Subsampling at 4K Gbps) High Dynamic Range (HDR) BT. Color Gamut On-Screen Display with 4K K Switching FM Tuner Low Standby Mode power consumption Remote control app for iOS (Apple) and Android (coming soon!) Decoding Dolby TrueHD DTS-HD Master Audio Listening Modes AnthemLogic - (11.2 channels) Dolby Surround DTS Neo:6 - Cinema, Music All-Channels - All-Speaker Stereo Inputs 8 HDMI inputs (7 rear and 1 front-panel input) Digital Audio Inputs: 2 Coaxial + 3 Optical 5 Stereo Analog RCA Inputs HDMI On-Screen Display - setup, video adjustments, status, song/artist info from radio stations MHL Supported Inputs xvYCC, Adobe RGB, Adobe YCC601, sYCC601, Deep color 2 Parallel Outputs Consumer Electronic Control (CEC) Audio Return Channel Standby Pass-through Custom Installation IR Control RS-232 Control IR Input (Configurable) 12V Trigger Output Control System Drivers Additional Features Backlit Remote Control Sidemount Rack Kit (sold separately) Warranty 3 years What is ARC? Simply put, Anthem Room Correction quickly "corrects" the effects that reflective surfaces such as walls, floors and ceilings have on the sound radiating from a loudspeaker. Removing the effects of these obstacles allows your audio equipment to achieve a more natural sound in any room, as close to the lab standard as possible. On a more complex level, ARC is a proprietary digital signal processing software that works with a specially-engineered calibration microphone and your PC to quickly and easily optimize audio for your unique listening space. Anthem engineers developed the ARC system while researching how to replicate the audio-lab standard of performance in non-lab environments. This groundbreaking research was conducted in conjunction with the National Research Council of Canada, the Canadian government's research and technology organization. Anthem engineers realized that real world listening experiences had little in common with the controlled environment of the audio lab. That's because even the best loudspeakers are affected by room anomalies like furniture. These obstacles cause standing waves, resonances, and reflections that can color the sound you hear. Imagine the sound waves coming from your speakers as ripples on a water surface. That makes it easy for you to understand how the ripples of sound bounce off any obstruction they encounter. You can immediately see the benefit of removing the obstacles. ARC digitally compares a room's acoustic signature to that of the lab standard. It measures the response of each speaker relative to the listening area. Then it uses advanced algorithms to eliminate the negative effects of the obstacles in the room, adjusting response and correcting phase effects. When ARC removes the obstacles, what's left is the lab standard performance. Limitless music. App-controlled convenience. Wireless connectivity. Everyone wants instant access to their digital audio library, anywhere in the home. And Anthem's AVM 60 with DTS Play-Fi® technology is the perfect, high performance means of delivery. Anthem AVM 60 can take full dynamic advantage of the better-than-CD-quality sound quality delivered by the DTS Play-Fi® streaming technology. Partnered With the Leader in Wi-Fi Streaming Partnered with the leader in Wi-Fi streaming, DTS Play-Fi wi-fi streaming technology supports a host of high quality file formats. Controlled directly from your smart device or computer in any operating system, the "Open Ecosystem" of DTS Play-Fi technology makes it easy to stream music throughout your home, and to add more wireless streaming devices on the fly. Audio Formats Supported by DTS Play-Fi® All your music, at your fingertips. The whole family can now access personal digital audio libraries from anywhere in your home with the touch of a screen. Take advantage of endless choices from online music streaming services*. Stream from any device, Android or iOS mobile or PC, with a wide range of connectivity options for today and tomorrow. * Some of the music services listed below may not be available in your region. All logos are property of their respective owner(s). skype on line dsdhomecinema. whatz