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| Top 10 Speaker Manufacturing Companies Posted: 12 Jul 2013 12:18 AM PDT What would you do in life without speakers? Best tracks with best quality recording are no good without having the best speakers or audio equipments. Homes, cars, theaters, dance clubs, and computers, all ask for best speakers, and this demand is fulfilled each day; from the most expensive high definition speakers, which might cost you equal to a luxury car, to affordable speakers. The market is flooding with brands supplying equipments for people with different lifestyles and classes. Still, the best is best, and you must know who is ruling the audiophile world before making a choice for your car or living room. Here are the top 10 manufactures of speakers. 10. Paradigm:For over past 30 years Paradigm Electronics continues to keep up with the demands of hi-end audio equipments, it has delivered many Signature series, and has set the standard for sonic excellence. A complete audio freak would die for its marvelous speaker design, accuracy, and powerful bass and thrilling dynamics. That's how Paradigm still retains its position among the top speaker manufactures of the world.
9. Definitive Technology:This US based brand came into existence in 1990, and was a late comer amidst the well established brands, but soon it grew to one of the best sellers of top grade loudspeakers, and eventually that of high rated speakers. Today, it shares the audio equipment market with giants and has received praise and awards for its high performance sound systems.
8. Polk:No one matches Polk when it comes to delivering best automobile speakers and home theater or speakers. After Polk delivered its first high end Monitor 7 in 1974, it gained the trust of audiophiles. At that time, Bass response was a great deal to include in the devices. Their models with arrays of drivers, that the world today knows as SDA (Stereo Dimensional Array, was much appreciated, and Polk still uses it.
7. KEF:With a huge market all over the world, once referred to as “The leading audio company in Europe” by New York Times, KEF is quite popular among American high-end audiophiles. A British brand, KEF still holds the flagship for product development, acoustical technology research, and manufacturer of top most quality speakers.
6. Martin Logan:US bases company Logan is one more among the best manufacturer of audio devices, and top quality speakers of every kind. Ranging from conventional subwoofers, the company delivers variety of kind such as wall-mounted speakers, floor standing, in wall speakers etc.
5. Klipsch:It's more often called Klipsch Speakers, and officially it's Kilpsch Audio Technologies. It was founded in 1946, and ranks among the top manufactures of high end, high fidelity sound systems, and public address applications, and personal computers of all types.
4. Bose:Bose is the first name that'll be mentioned when we talk about best loudspeakers, noise cancelling headsets, and automotive sounds systems. This America based company ruled the audio market for quite a long time, sometimes it dropped to lower positions in the list of top speaker manufactures of the world, but never been out of it. Bose is also popular for its well researched product development.
3. Bowers & Wilkins:B&W, a well known British brand, has spent a long time in the hi-fi audio equipment market, and they were best known for their loudspeakers initially after it was founded by John Bowers in 1966. The company is one of the most successful of those who could keep up with the modern requirements and is still delivering top rated audio equipments of every kind.
2. Dynaudio:Dynaudio needs no mention if you are the part of an audiophile hub. It's the audio supplier to Volvo, Volkswagen, and even Buggati. UK and US aren't the sources of all best quality speaker manufactures. Danish brand Dynaudio breached the marked when it was founded in 1977.
1. Harman International:An American giant in the audiophile and infotainment market, Harman International owns well known brands, namely JBL, Infinity, Crown, Mark Levinson, and Revel. Perhaps, Harman is the biggest and top rated manufacturers of audio and infotainment equipments. Harman has an automotive division cell that supplies audio systems to brands including Mercedes-Benz, Toyota/Lexus, GM, BMW etc.
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| Top 10 Ways Saas-Bahu TV Serials are Ruining Indian Culture Posted: 11 Jul 2013 08:58 PM PDT Indian soap operas,normally called the saas-bahu sagas, are perhaps one of the most damaging in the world. They are not only regressive but depict a ridiculous version of Indian Culture which harms more than entertains.Television has the capability to influence even those in the remote corners of the country. But instead of doing something progressive, these serials show a regressive India. Let's have a look at some of the side-effects of these sagas on the culture we call our own. 10. Women should suffer in silence:Saas-Bahu sagas show a daughter-in-law happily suffering at the hands of her devilish mother-in-law. In doing so, they effect the minds of women around the country. The mothers-in-law begin to feel that it's their birth right to encroach upon the daughters-in-law's lives unhindered. While the latter feel suffering without retort is the only way to lead their lives.
9. Appearance of Bahus:An educated woman is shown to don sarees covering her head from the moment she marries. While saree is culturally appropriate in an Indian context; what is bothersome is the fact that a bahu is shown to be happily covering her head all the time. Indian culture is rich no doubt but some practices are archaic. It is sickening that a medium such as television fails to help society break the shackle sand and instead propagates a regressive culture.
8. All mother-in-laws are cruel:While the Indian mother-in-law is a tough nut to crack but there are exceptions too. There are good mother-in-laws around even though they are few and far in between. But these saas-bahu sagas would only paint the sorry picture for television viewers. While it's not completely untrue but then it is not constructive to always paint them in this light as that would make every girl wary of this future figure in their lives.
7. Backward:Indian television serials are very backward with story lines are in deep contrast to the society in the present context. Whether it is the manner in which the daughter-in-law is shown to be submissive or the priorities that define her life, everything is a total antithesis to progress and packaged as our culture. This influences women especially in rural areas and in a way prevents them from moving forward in the guise of the Indian ethos depicted.
6. Notion of working women:More often than not the daughters-in-law in saas-bahu sagas are show to let go of their careers. Perhaps a century back this was Indian culture but it has got nothing to do with culture in the present milieu. When television programs promote women giving up their jobs on marriage at the behest of in-laws, it paints a peculiar picture in the mindset of millions of women in rural areas hindering progress on the pretext of culture.
5. Men are superior:A saas-bahu saga cannot function without the all-important husband! Pick up any saas-bahu soap and you would see how every script advocates the archaic beliefs of our patriarchal society. Whether it is sacrificing one's life for the husband or suffering insults for the sanity of the men in their lives, television depicts women trampling on self-respect for the superior male gender! There is nothing Indian about showing women bear insults from their significant other in the name of culture.
4. Bias on skin-colour:There have been saas-bahu soaps where the bahus have been shown to be tortured for the color of their skin. Depiction of problems in getting a girl married due to her skin-color as she is not readily accepted by her prospective in-laws is a common story line. It sows the seed of doubts in the minds of thousands of girls out there and not to mention the in-laws too. For some reason television producers find it advisable to weave a sort of legitimacy around this. If Indian culture is this then it's pathetic and needs to change. However these serials ensure our culture inevitably traverses the degrading path!
3. Extravagant marriages:Our society is plagued by dowry and the problems related to extravagant marriages. This need to show off in our greedy society has led many towards doom. But a medium like television can go a long way in influencing people across the country. But they choose instead to depict marriages where it is acceptable to splurge extraordinary amounts of money for the sake of the family name! This is truly one of the worst effects these serials have in the society as it in a way validates the practice.
2. Idea of Perfect Indian women:This is perhaps the worst side-effect of the Indian soap operas. The perfect Indian women as depicted in these serials are one who put up with all kinds of nonsense without making a sound. The Indian Television's interpretation of a cultured Indian woman is one who puts up with an unhappy marriage and a torturing mother-in-law. Fighting back is presented asun-Indian which in actuality is culturally degenerating.
1. Women in western clothes are immoral:With rising cases of rapes for which westernization is often blamed, television certainly holds responsibility for shaping mindsets. These saas-bahu sagas depict women in western clothes or with self-respect as vamps or immoral. Now this is very dangerous as these serials are also watched by men around the country and could lead them to conclude that raping or hurting such women is in fact right.
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