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 ...
Having been fortunate to review over a dozen Marantz components in the past, I now come to expect very good things with every new product announcement. Marantz has recently made a big play ...
Being an early adopter is a thankless job.Sure you get all the cool gadgets long before anybody else, but you have to deal with less than ready versions of hardware and software and paying significantly more than those that wait.Sometimes, though, it pays off.
The folks over at Emotiva have revealed a trio of new audio amplifiers, including two made for those with a smaller budgets.The UPA-200 and UPA-500 come in at $350 and $399 respectively.The 200 is a two channel amp made to be paired up with an existing 5.1 channel amp for those that want to expand to 7.1 sound.The UPA-500 gives you five channels and includes a toroidal transformer, flat frequency response and a low distortion rate.
We’re not willing to call off the search yet, but we may have found the single dumbest feature ever to be listed on the back on an HDMI cable box – anti-virus protection.That’s right, according to the back of the box for an HDMI cable marketed towards Xbox 360 owners, it has “anti-virus protection to reduce virus noises.”Yeah.Not only is it absolutely ridiculous to think that viruses are travelling through your HDMI cables, but game consoles don’t get viruses.It’s a double whammy of dumb.
Korean home theater fanatics get one hell of a set next month, courtesy of LG.For around the equivalent of $22,000, they'll be able to get equipped with an 84" LCD with a resolution of 3,840 x 2,160.Assuming you've got a 4K source, that's one impressive set.
50 years after it hit theaters for the first time, 'Lawrence of Arabia' is coming back.On October 4th, a digitally-restored 4K resolution version of the movie will be playing in theaters across the country.It's the director's cut too – a nice treat for fans.If you don't make it out to a screening though, you still have a few ways to watch it at home.
The Korean Ministry of Knowledge Economy announced today that they've selected LG to lead the way in creating a flexible OLED screen for manufacture by 2017.Initially the screen will be used for commercial purposes, but there's no telling what kind of applications we'll see for consumers.A fully OLED wrapped cell phone?Projector style OLED displays that roll up when not in use?There are a lot of possibilities here.
If you really want to see 'The Dark Knight Rises' the way it was intended to be seen – and we're guessing that many of you do – you can't just go to any movie theater. Nearly one hour of the film was shot in IMAX 15-perf 70mm film, which means an IMAX theater is the place to be. And not one of those phony IMAX theaters that have been cropping up in multiplexes – you need the full 70mm experience with the exceedingly large screen. Here's where you can see it:
