Canton GLE 4x0 Speakers- Secrets of Home Theater - May 21, 2009
- Amidst the many dividing lines in the world of audio and video is the line between those that believe speakers must be single purpose, and those that believe speakers can be multi-purpose. The purposes in question are often music and home theater (al...
DreamVision DreamE LCoS Projector- Secrets of Home Theater - May 18, 2009
- It has been my privilege recently to sample DreamVisions latest addition to the 1080p LCoS front-projector market, the DreamE. With attractive Euro-styling, a choice of case colors, excellent performance, and suitability for medium to large theaters...
Yamaha RX-V3900 7.1 A/V Receiver- Secrets of Home Theater - May 14, 2009
- There has been a huge boom, over the last few years, in the number of devices for your A/V system that stream or play music. These devices include many things, from gaming consoles like the Xbox 360 to standalone boxes such as Yamaha's own MCX-2000...
Energy CF-70 Speakers- Secrets of Home Theater - May 11, 2009
- I first encountered the Energy line of speakers in the late 90s when I helped a friend setup her new Take 5 system paired with a Denon receiver. My recollection of the event is of some skepticism as to the sound quality given the small size of the sp...
Emotiva ERT-8.3 Tower Speakers, ERM-6.3 Monitor, and ERD-1 Surround Speakers- Secrets of Home Theater - May 7, 2009
- Emotiva has been recognized as a value/performance leader in amplifiers for quite some time. Recently, they have ventured into the speaker arena with several models. In this review, we cover the new ERT-8.3 Towers, ERM-6.3 Monitor (used as the center...
Pioneer BDP-09FD Elite Blu-ray Player (Benchmark)- Secrets of Home Theater - May 4, 2009
- Many people have been waiting for Blu-ray players to hit the magic price point of $200, where people think mass adoption will start to take place and it will slowly overtake DVD as the dominant home video format. However, theres also another range of...
ARE Audio Light Roast Speakers- Secrets of Home Theater - April 30, 2009
- ARE Audio consists of two East Coast Canadian childhood friends who have created interesting speakers with a twist. They currently produce two models, the bookshelf Light Roasts and a floor stander called the Grinder. These guys do more than just bui...
ButtKicker BK-Kit-4 Wireless Tactile Transducer (NOW WITH FREE SHIPPING SO IT'S THE BEST PRICE ANYWHERE!)- Secrets of Home Theater - April 28, 2009
- ButtKicker has been making tactile transducers (shakers) for several years now. These are devices that make your chair, couch, or floor vibrate when low frequency material is playing. They were always very powerful, and in fact, more intense than man...
Denon AH-D7000 Headphones and Headroom Ultra Desktop Headphone Amplifier- Secrets of Home Theater - April 23, 2009
- My first high end system consisted of Sennheiser HD-580 headphones, an original HeadRoom headphone amplifier, an Audio Alchemy DAC in the Box, and a Sony Discman with an optical digital out. I was a college student at the time, and there was no way o...
Dynaudio X16 Bookshelf Speakers- Secrets of Home Theater - April 20, 2009
- The Excite is Danish manufacturer Dynaudios second least expensive speaker line, comprised of five different models: two towers, two bookshelves, and one center channel. The X16 is the larger of the two bookshelf speakers, with a 1 hand-coated silk d...
Velodyne SC-600 In-Wall Subwoofer- Secrets of Home Theater - April 13, 2009
- The name Velodyne is practically synonymous with subwoofers. They have been creating innovatively designed subs since the 1980s with such features as high gain servos, anti-clipping, dynamic driven control systems and digital drive accelerometers to ...
Furman IT-Reference 20i Power Conditioner- Secrets of Home Theater - April 9, 2009
- Ive been suspicious of power conditioners ever since they first appeared sometime in the Jurassic Park period I think. Just like the science in that movie is a little glossed over, so is the science of AC power glossed over by wild claims for power ...
Cadence CSX-15 Subwoofer- Secrets of Home Theater - April 6, 2009
- I remember building my first home theater system many moons ago. I can still feel the agonizing pain of shopping for a subwoofer. Of all the components in my system it was the one item I obsessed over the most. Being the newbie that I was I had two b...
Onkyo TX-SR606 7.1 A/V Receiver- Secrets of Home Theater - April 2, 2009
- Onkyo has recently added a new line of receivers to its already long list of stellar audio/video equipment. The new TX-SR606 is the latest upgrade to the well reviewed TX-SR605.In one-upmanship, it has the added features of 4 HDMI (1.3) inputs and Au...
AV123 ELT 525 Surround Sound Speaker System- Secrets of Home Theater - March 30, 2009
- To say I was excited about the prospect of reviewing AV123s new entry-level surround sound system is an understatement. For those that dont know, AV123 is one of many companies that sell loudspeakers from their website only. The drawback is that one ...