Gibson Audio Announces the Wurlitzer Home Theatre System With Sound By Thiel

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE…Nashville, Tennessee…January 4, 2005

Gibson Audio has introduced the Wurlitzer Home Theatre System, designed to bring beautiful cabinetry, user-friendly design and top-quality sound together in a single unit. The piano-quality cherry wood cabinet  (63"W, 50"H, 25"D) includes ample storage for media and components materials, hosts a 50" plasma screen and is supplied with speakers designed by the world’s premier provider, Thiel.

“In one single step, the Wurlitzer Home Theatre System brings new levels of ease, efficiency and enjoyment to the home theatre audience,” said Henry Juszkiewicz, chairman and CEO of Gibson, Wurlitzer’s parent company. “The Wurlitzer logo is a cultural icon that has represented the best in popular entertainment for over a century, and the Home Theatre System carries that great tradition forward into a new era.”

Features of the Wurlitzer Home Theatre System’s left, right and center channel speakers  include 6 ½" woofers with aluminum cones, magnetically stabilized short-coil motor systems and very high output tweeters with neodymium powered long-gap motors. The system has Thiel 360-watt power amps for each channel.

The subwoofer features 10" very high output woofers with short coil system, 20-pound magnetic structure, cast chassis and aluminum diaphragm. It also features a 500-watt high efficiency amplifier and patented electronic compensation for “room wall” sonic effects.

Gibson Audio, the comsumer electronics division of world premiere musical instrument manufacturer, Gibson Guitar, is also home to the Wurlitzer Digital Jukebox and is based in Washington, DC. Founded in 1894 in Kalamazoo, MI, and headquartered in Nashville since 1984, Gibson is known worldwide for producing classic models in every major style of fretted instrument, including acoustic and electric guitars, mandolins and banjos. Gibson’s digital guitar represents the biggest advance in electric guitar design in over 70 years.  Gibson Guitar Corp.’s family of brands now includes Epiphone, Dobro, Kramer, Steinberger, Tobias, Slingerland, Maestro, Baldwin, Hamilton, Chickering and Wurlitzer. Visit Gibson’s website at www.gibson.com.

CONTACTS:
Caroline Galloway  GIBSON 440-338-3469  caroline.galloway@gibson.com

Walter Carter          GIBSON 615-871-4500  walter.carter@gibson.com

Jason Padgitt           ROGERS & COWAN jpadgitt@rogersandcowan.com

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