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 ...
Typically before CES all the news tends to be about new product releases and companies embracing new technologies, but the news out of Onkyo today is much different.Gibson, a company best known for its legendary Les Paul guitar line, has bought out a majority share of Onkyo USA and a good chunk of Onkyo Japan too.These moves make Gibson the second highest shareholder in the Onkyo Corporation.
When LG announced that they were bringing a 55" OLED television to CES, everything they mentioned pointed toward the TV being a prototype.After all, there hasn't been a TV like it in production - OLEDs have thusfar been ridiculously small.It turns out the display will be released to general consumers after all, in the latter half of 2012.According to OLED-Display LG is expanding its OLED output from 4,000 sheets a month to 12,000 with plans to mass produce the panels in the third quarter of the year.
If LG was simply bringing an 84" set to CES 2012 the news would make the rounds.But the massive display is more than just a 1080p TV that attracts attention through bigness.LG's new television has plenty going on under the hood, not the least of which is an Ultra Definition (3840 x 2160) screen resolution that puts it at four times that of fullHD.
Whether we want to admit it or not, there are some times when smaller, cheaper speakers are what's called for.Unless you're very determined to do so, you're not going to fit the Bowers & Wilkins Nautilus into a dorm room or guest bedroom and you definitely don't want to be carrying the Meridian DSP8000 down the stairs.
Jetpacks, flying cars and OLED displays - they're all technologies that we've been promised for years but we've never seen.Or to be more accurate, we've seen them but we've never had a chance to buy them.OLEDshave been shown off for the last four Consumer Electronics Shows at the least and they've been impractical all the while.They're tiny and unreasonably expensive, which makes OLED sets interesting as a novelty but not as much more.
The Consumer Electronics Show is almost upon us and that means we'll be seeing new products, new takes on existing products and plenty of new technology.With glasses-free 3D on the wayto the mainstream, you can bet we'll be seeing plenty of that.
Onkyo has announced a pair of new features coming to its receivers in 2012 but the coolest right up front is a tech called InstaPrevue.Using InstaPrevue, you can get a picture-in-picture view of what's happening on your other inputs.If you're watching Netflix while waiting for the game to start, you won't have to flip back and forth - just use InstaPrevue.
