Best Buy Stores L.P, a subsidiary of Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY) of Minneapolis and athena TECHNOLOGIES of Toronto have entered into an agreement to market the athena Audition and Point 5 speaker systems through Best Buy’s more than 500 retail stores in the United States. All athena TECHNOLOGIES products, including the SCT series will also be available through Best Buy’s online store, BestBuy.com.

RBH Sound Inc. introduces the Architectural Cinema Series (AC) lineup of freestanding loudspeakers. These new loudspeakers offer RBH build and sound quality at a consumer friendly price point. The AC Series is a sonically matched home theater loudspeaker system consisting of a pair of towers (AC-5T), center (AC-525), surrounds (AC-51) and a powered subwoofer (A-10S). All mid-bass drivers in the system use a polygraphite cone. The tweeters are 1 inch, high-quality fabric dome tweeters.

Mirage Loudspeakers, a division of Audio Products International Inc, announced the release of the new Omni Series loudspeaker lineup. Designed by Andrew Welker, chief engineer at Mirage, the Omni Series loudspeakers features the patented Omniguide, a proprietary component, which utilizes an angled dispersion saucer, that when coupled with the pure titanium hybrid tweeter and titanium deposit drivers, produce 360-degree sound dispersion. This delivers natural and lifelike sound to all areas of the room and eliminates the need for precise speaker placement.

Featuring panels that are less than 16 centimeters across, the new 5.1 Home Cinema Loudspeaker system from ARC can be wall mounted or free standing. ARC claims that by incorporating NXT technology into their speakers, the diffuse nature of their sound will be uncolored and natural, ensuring that the "hot spot" is eliminated, allowing for resolute sound regardless of the listener’s position in the room.

With one active sub-woofer (PSW 2000), four satellite speakers and one center speaker (all models HTS 2001), the new $1,750 KEF KHT 2005 Home Theater system brings genuine audiophile sound quality at an attractive price.