Las Vegas was yet again host to CES, where hundreds of industry folks, journalists, and just plain revelers converged to see the latest trends in technology, communications, entertainment, and lifestyle products. Every ...
Integrated amplifiers are probably more popular than ever before. Today, many companies offer a one box, convenient solution loaded with features and requiring fewer cables / less rack space, which allows for full system ...
Legendary British HiFi firm, Musical Fidelity, has been at it for about 25 years now. They have been widely praised for decades for their amplifiers, hybrid tube designs, and digital source components. Musical Fidelity&...
Bel Canto Design, out of Minneapolis, has an the envious reputation of making a full line of very well reviewed Class D amplifiers, preamps, DAC’s, CD players, and transports. Their ...
Very few categories in high end, perfectionist audio are as controversial as cables. There are endless debates about silver or copper,shielded or not, soldered or crimped, cryo’d or not, and ...
Pro-Ject, the company from Austria, whose Pre Box and Head Box I previously reviewed, has been expanding their product line while keeping true to their mission. That mission is producing great sounding, well ...
DH Labs is one of my favorite audio cable makers. As a matter of fact, their digital cables and the silver Revelation interconnect are two of my references. They have been at the ...
“Computer audio” is the current favorite buzz phrase in high end audio. Ironically, non audiophiles are probably not too familiar with the term since playing music files from a computer, internet ...
One of the biggest challenges a speaker designer has is making a very compact, low mass speaker sound lifelike. There have been a number of notable “book shelf” designs, like ...
Olive Media Inc. has gained quite a loyal, worldwide following for their user friendly, great sounding series of music servers they created from the point of view of non computer geeks and music ...
Bryston’s first two forays into digital source components, the BCD-1 CD player and the BDA-1 DAC , have been smashing successes, garnering rave reviews for sound, build quality, and overall value. Those ...
It's been over a decade since Napster changed the music industry forever. Or rather, since broadband Internet, faster computers, ever growing hard drive sizes, and new compression algorithms (like the mp3) ...
We all have that one friend that just doesn't get it. You know the guy - he's got $50,000 invested in his home theater but uses the earbuds that came with his iPhone to listen to music. Headphone quality is essential to get the best possible performance out of your music and Ultrasone's new Signature Pro series boast some quality specs. They have a frequency range that starts at 8Hz thanks to a 40mm transducer developed in-house.
The SIM2 M.150 is more than just a projector.It's an impressive projector, to be sure, but when not in use for movie watching it takes on another form. The M.150 can function as a light, with the ability to add a bit of ambience or go full bore with colors and your own preferred imagery.
The folks at Pass Labs have been hard at work on some new gear, including a new flagship preamplifier and a pair of mono amps that took three years to design and produce. The Xs-150 and Xs-300 mono amplifiers offer a double stacked chassis that keeps the power supply in one chassis while the input and output stages sit in the other. The new mono amps supply 150 and 300 watts of power respectively and offer larger but quieter transformers than previous amps. The 150 will be available at $65,000 a pair while the 300 comes in at $85,000 a pair.
There's plenty of new functionality coming to your TiVo Premiere thanks to the latest update to the software.For starters, you'll be able to search through Hulu Plus offerings along with your regular cable, Amazon Instant Video, Blockbuster and Netflix.If you can't find the show you're looking for, you can even set up a WishList to catch it when it does come on air.Multi-room streaming is also available, allowing you to watch shows from one of your TiVo boxes on another networked TiVo Premiere.
Just a few years ago, connected devices hit the market in a big way.We saw our first Netflix boxes and streaming capable TVs.We saw Blu-ray players that could give us movies on demand and receivers capable of streaming from Pandora and other online sources.Now that those are becoming standard, the NPD Group estimates that we'll reach 600 million connected components shipped by 2015.In fact, they go one step further and say that that 600 million will all be Wi-Fi enabled.
Just as it is with televisions, 3D is becoming a standard feature on projectors. Sharp's latest entry into the projector category is the XV-Z30000, a DLP projector that offers some impressive specs at a reasonable price. It gives you a contrast ratio of 50,000:1 and 1600 ANSI Lumens brightness, which Sharp says is used more efficiently with its DLP projectors than other technologies.
The latest preamp and surround sound processor to come out of AudioControl is the Maestro M4. It's capable of supplying you with 7.1 channels of audio and can handle Dolby True HD, DTS-HD Master Audio and comes packed with Dolby Volume to prevent those dreaded audio spikes. You'll also find 3D pass-through available thanks to newly upgraded HDMI 1.4 switching.
