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 ...
Sometimes good things appear in big packages. So it was when Federal Express arrived at my door with two huge boxes that happen to house one Opera Seconda loudspeaker each. Opera manufactures its ...
If you want all your music in one convenient place, ready to stream across your house then you might consider an Olive music server.They've got a few different models with varying capabilities offeringup to 2TB of storage, 24-bit/192kHz DACs and a full color touchscreen, but they're doing a little bit more to entice you now – offering free iPods and iPads.
When companies release new versions of their old gear, the changes usually aren't that big.You'll see slightly improved performance, a few new parts, or a cool new feature that brings it in line with current tech.The Mark II ClairAudient is different.Instead of a frequency response of 80Hz to 22kHz, the new version goes down to 30Hz.It's a huge change, and one that will certainly be welcome by Audient customers.
And you thought multizone audio was cool. The latest from Denon and Marantz takes it to a whole new level. Their upcoming receivers will pack an extra HDMI output that provides video in another zone. It's not explicitly stated, but we're guessing that means you'll get multi-channel audio, upscaling and the rest as part of the deal.
Dish Network recently announced a very cool new DVR called The Hopper.Your DVR may have the ability to jump ahead 30 seconds and allow you to skip through commercials fairly quickly, but the Hopper can do away with them completely.Its functionality is a bit limited at the moment – it only works for the major networks and it doesn't work until 24 hours after the program airs.Once it does though, you simply have to make sure the commercial skipping feature is enabled, then sit back and enjoy.
2012 is a big year for fans of the Olympics, especially if you're into sports that don't usually get a ton of coverage. NBC has announced that NBCOlympics.com will stream every event. Every single one of them, no matter how oddball. That gives you 3,500 hours, or around 150 days worth of Olympic events.
The long awaited 55" OLED set from LG now has a price, or at least a price estimate.LG says to expect it to fall somewhere in the area of $10,000 when its available later on this year.You'll notice a few new things since CES too, including a carbon fiber backing that allowed LG to trim another millimeter off of the already svelte frame.
We love us some Sim2 projectors, but no matter how good a projector is, it'll eventually become obsolete.Sim2 knows this and is offering customers a chance to do something about it.Instead of trying to sell off your old 720p Sim2 projector, you can simply trade it back to the company for a discount on a brand new one.
