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're rocking an Android phone and a Google TV you may be in luck. There's an app in the works that would allow you to control your Google TV with your voice. The app will utilize the phone for capturing the commands and display the results on your TV using information like the time, date and your GPS data. If you ask "When's the game on?" for example, you'll get results for local teams. It's a pretty slick setup.
Samsung's LCD business is big, and thanks to the recent acquisition of Sony's piece of a joint LCD venture it's been getting even bigger. The folks at Samsung are through trying to manage such a big business within the greater structure and are spinning off a new company that's going to be handling LCDs and LCDs alone.
Soundbars are traditionally very simple things. A soundbar system will consist of a single bar and, depending on the make and model, a subwoofer. Sharp went a different way with their latest, offering you the ability to split the bar in half and have two vertical speakers.
Over the last year or two, mobile devices have really picked up as sources for video and audio, but until recently they've been lacking a way to get content onto a television. MHL is the solution brought forth by manufacturers and home theater companies are quickly picking up on it.
It’s common knowledge, at least among people that care about such things, that portable devices like MP3 players, phones and tablets are more than a little lacking when it comes to audio quality. Compressed audio can only give you so much quality, after all. If you’re really that attached to playing music from your iPad through an otherwise impressive speaker system, Antelope has a solution – the $3,900 Zodiac Gold iPad DAC.
It used to be that picking up an entry-level receiver meant settling for the absolute bare bones and getting little in return for your investment. The latest from Onkyo buck that trend by offering much more than one might expect from low priced receivers. The TX-SR313 is the cheapest in the series ($299) and still packs a discrete-component output stage instead of an integrated amp.
Sharp revealed some impressive new sets at CES this January and they're finally ready to let us in on when we can expect them and how much we'll be paying. At the top of the line is an 80" LED backlit LCD that comes in at $6,499. Of course, if you're not looking for something to take up an entire wall, they have smaller sets too.
