Secrets of Home Theater - April 25, 2012
Now that our TVs are thin enough we often want to hang them on a wall, and manufacturers keep pushing the limits of thickness year after year. CES this year saw the advent of OLED TVs that are just millimeters thick as they no longer need backlightin...
Secrets of Home Theater - April 23, 2012
During CEDIA 2011, one technology that caught my attention was HDBaseT. It provided a solution to the all too familiar cable clutter problem. Below is a picture that I took at their booth which shows a set of cables whose signals could all be transmi...
Secrets of Home Theater - April 18, 2012
With the prevalence of portable music players to the point that you must be from Mars if you don't own one, there is a huge aftermarket for high quality earphones (headphones is the category, with over-the-ear headphones, on-ear-headphones, in-ear he...
Secrets of Home Theater - April 9, 2012
USB DACs are hot items now because you can play music from your computer through them and into a set of headphones or to your main hi-fi rig. Some of these DACs only have a USB input, (no S/PDIF inputs) because their main purpose is for use with a co...
Secrets of Home Theater - April 3, 2012
I didn't play any records before I cleaned them so I can't satisfy the typical audiophile nervosa A-B, but wow, the records looked smashing after they came out of the Spin Clean and there was gunk in the water below. Brilliant.
Secrets of Home Theater - December 28, 2011
Secrets of Home Theater - December 15, 2011
If you have a home theater system where your bass management isn't as flexible as you would like it to be, an outboard crossover network could solve your problems. Bryston makes several models, and the one I chose to review was the 10B-SUB, which is ...
Secrets of Home Theater - November 7, 2011
CEntrance is a Chicago based company with engineering in the US and Moscow, Russia, design in Holland, and manufacturing facilities in Asia but final assembly in the US . Let's just say 'multi-national'. They got their start in pro audio making micro...
Secrets of Home Theater - October 4, 2011
If you've read the previous DIY calibration articles here at Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity, then you've seen us cover Chromapure, CalMAN, and the DVDO Duo video processor. This time we're going to look at the newest release of Chromapure,...
Secrets of Home Theater - October 4, 2011
If you've read the previous DIY calibration articles here at Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity, then you've seen us cover ChromaPure and CalMAN calibration systems, and the DVDO Duo video processor. This time we're going to look at the newest...
Secrets of Home Theater - September 27, 2011
Computer audio is quickly becoming the source of choice for high-resolution audio playback. A vast number of products focused on computer audio are available today, but most of the attention is paid to hardware: DACs and computer audio interfaces lik...
Secrets of Home Theater - August 16, 2011
Most of us use portable players at least now and then to listen to our music, using earbuds. But what if there is a lot of ambient noise, such as on an airplane, or if you are in a Starbucks enjoying a refreshment while you are using your laptop, or ...
Secrets of Home Theater - August 11, 2011
I was in a bind. CD and product reviews were due at multiple publications, and my Theta Carmen II transport's drive mechanism had failed. I may have bought the used unit directly from Theta Digital's founder and former owner, Neil Sinclair, but that ...
Secrets of Home Theater - July 26, 2011
Comects is a Hong Kong-based company that makes A/V accessories, including switchers. We have reviewed a few of their products, and at this point, I had stopped reviewing HDMI switchers because most receivers and processors have HDMI input switching ...
Secrets of Home Theater - July 18, 2011
NuForce is a small company that has recently become quite visible due to their special editions of the venerable OPPO Universal Players. But, they also make their own products, including DACs and earbuds. The latter, namely the NuForce NE-700X earbud...
