Having travelled to Hong Kong several years ago, I was surprised to see a large number of high-end audio shops filled with hifi aficionados. Mainland China has been an audiophile hub for decades ...
I have been into computer audio since the time it meant ripping your CDs into lossy files to either load them up on your mp3 player or to play them back over plastic ...
Over the past year or so I have come to rely on a few cable manufacturers that make reference products at their price points and even beyond. Darwin Cables, who I first heard ...
My first extended experience with an Anthony Gallo loudspeaker was two years ago, when I reviewed the Classico Cl-1 monitor and matching CLS-10 subwoofer. Having already heard much about Gallo products -- from ...
Denon has introduced a number of notable new products in the last year or so, including streamers, AV receivers, Blu-ray players, HiFi components, and headphones. I recently reviewed their very nice DHT-S514 Soundbar. ...
SVS is one of those companies that established themselves in this “new economy” with a direct-to-consumer, high value, business model that has grown to include a burgeoning retail footprint as more ...
Television soundbars are all the rage today, and for good reason. They allow you to enjoy high fidelity sound -- without a bank of front, right, center, and rear channel speakers -- in ...
Merrill Audio has made quite a few waves in the audiophile community. The company is relatively young, but has already garnered excellent reviews for their Veritas monoblock amplifiers. The firm is based in ...
Plinius is a 30-year-old high performance audio company based in New Zealand. They enjoy a stellar reputation, and fiercely loyal fan base, thanks to achievements in industrial design, build, and ergonomics. More importantly, ...
U.K. speaker legends KEF have been front and center lately with cutting edge products like the flagship Blade and the 50th anniversary stand-mounted LS50. At $1500, the LS50 is a remarkable bargain for ...
As noted in my recent review of the terrific Marantz NA-11S1 network player and DSD DAC, the Japanese company has been on quite a roll with respect to digital source components. The ...
I'm no stranger to Britain's Musical Fidelity, having reviewed a number of their budget minded and mid tier products over the past few years. A few of the items that have ...
If you’re looking for a new set that will blow your friends away, this one will just about do it.The 84LM9600 gives you a resolution of 3,840 by 2,160 – the same as most digital movie theaters.It’s also massive, at 84 inches diagonally.There’s no missing this one.
Absolute 3D sound processing is a technology that’s designed to create a 3D sound stage using stereo sources, and it’s the tech that’s at the foundation of the new Onkyo iLunar music system.The goal is to make you feel like you’re center stage while listening to music – completely surrounding and immersing you in the songs.
The folks at Runco have a new projector out that’s made to handle just about any environment you can put it in.The LS-10HBd is a 3-chip DLP projector capable of pumping out 3,780 Lumens brightness, making it look nice where other projectors would suffer.
We’ve been hearing for a while that Apple is planning to get into the TV game in a significant way, and now we know just how they plan to do it.Rumor had it that Apple would be finding a way to work around traditional cable companies and start a service of their own like Microsoft is trying to do, but it seems they’ll be going a different route.As with their phone company, Apple will be all about hardware.
The folks at Seymor-Screen Excellence have created a new curved screen for those that want a completely immersive experience. It's not just the extra effect that the curve provides though - the new Absolute screen is designed to be acoustically transparent, so your speakers can sit behind it and even point in towards the viewer.
You've got thousands of high bitrate MP3s and lossless audio files, entire collections of albums and ripped CDs, and maybe even a few of your own tunes. The problem is, despite the high quality of the files and the extreme convenience of having all your tunes in one place, playing them through your PC leaves you high and dry in the audio quality department.
Initial reactions to the 48 frames per second version of Peter Jackson's 'The Hobbit' were less than pleasant. Those who saw it said that the difference between effects and real actors and sets was glaring, which is a huge problem for a movie as digitally enhanced as this one. The latest impressions though, from folks who have seen it with more post work done, is generally positive. Sadly though, you might not get to find out one way or the other.
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