Transparent Audio, based in Saco, Maine, has enjoyed its position among the most respected audio cable makers for decades now. In an area with fierce competition, their power products and cables have been ...
Founded in 1998 and quickly making a name for themselves in the subwoofer market, SVS is now a global maker and distributor of complete speaker systems. They are a unique organization, with a design ...
Italian speaker maker Opera has been making headlines recently with their great-sounding demos at various audio shows, earning them positive print and online reviews. I reviewed their floor-standing Seconda model, which I found ...
Active speakers have had a tough road in the audiophile world. They are fairly commonplace in recording studios and other pro sound environments. I have heard several theories for this, including the fact ...
Rein Audio impressed me when I had the opportunity to review their very fine sounding X-DAC last year. The German based company, just a few years old, has since developed a few more ...
The very aptly named HiFiMan has been around since 2007, and I first became aware of the company from the ads for their high performance portable file players. They have developed into a one-stop ...
With the move to computer and hard drive based digital sources, one would think a format tied to a physical medium would be odd in 2013. But SACD has proved to be remarkably resilient ...
I’ve enjoyed reviewing several Rogue products over the last few years. The Brodheadsville, PA based company makes beautifully built, excellent sounding tube preamps, power amps, and integrated amps. They have products ...
Audience, out of San Marcos, CA, is one of the most respected companies in the power conditioning arena, with their line of adeptReponse series consistently getting rave reviews from the audio press and ...
PS Audio, out of Boulder, CO, has been a major player in high end audio for decades. Their power distribution/conditioning units and digital source components have been go to products for droves ...
MartinLogan enjoys a place at the mantle occupied by a relatively small group of state of the art speaker companies enduring the test of time. Nearing its third decade, the Lawrence, Kansas company ...
Boston Acoustics was founded in 1979 and quickly made a name among budget audiophiles, and later home theater enthusiasts. They became a big player in car audio as well. In 2005, D&M Holdings ...
Just months after a similar announcement from AMC, Hollywood Theaters has made a deal with Sony to get on the digital conversion train. At thirteen U.S. locations, a total of 167 screens will be equipped with Sony 4K projectors. In addition to the 4K projectors being installed will be a total of 53 projectors capable of 3D projection with RealD 3D support.
Streaming media through a home network is a fantastic way to watch videos and listen to music, unless you don’t have the network to support it. With HD files becoming much more commonplace, the problem of bandwidth increases, and many home networks just can’t handle it. Using coax cables, rather than Ethernet or wireless solutions, ADB brags a potential 175Mbps throughput, more than enough to stream HD video.
Christmas comes early for PlayStation 3 owners, with the addition of the much beloved Netflix streaming service. Sony says that Netflix will be available next month, but unlike with other products that get the service through a firmware update, the PlayStation 3 will – at least for now – require a separate Netflix disc.
In the competitive nature of the HDTV industry, there are a lot of ways to get noticed. You can make a really high quality television, or innovate in some way that’s new and exciting. Or, you can do what Samsung did and make another really thin TV. The “Needle Slim” Samsung LCD features a 120Hz refresh rate and a reported contrast of 5000:1.
OLED hasn’t even reached the mass market, but the Texas based Uni-Pixel company boats that their TMOS displays, which they’re manufacturing the film for now, offer better performance than current CRT, LCD and even OLED displays. The new TMOS (Time-Multiplexed Optical Shutter) technology works on the same principal as DLP technology.
It seems like only yesterday that we were finally getting 1080p televisions and already we’re clamoring for something more. With a resolution of 4096 x 2160 and 20,000 lumens brightness, the SRX-T420 certainly delivers that something. The SRX-T420 features a contrast ratio of 3,000:1, superior to Sony’s other 4K projectors, as well as performance and usability tweaks.
Developed from the ground up, the successor to the much lauded NuForce V2 amplifier boards is now available for purchase. With a focus on music reproduction, the NuForce V3 sports an impressive set of benchmarks. The V3 circuit board marks the third generation of NuForce amplifier technology, and is now a core component in their flagship Ref 9V3SE amplifier as well as other products.
