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Physical media isn’t dead. These are the 10 best 4K UHD Blu-ray discs of 2025 with reference picture and sound, and meaningful extras.
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Our picks of the very best from NAMM 2026 include active speakers, studio monitors, headphones, car audio, software tools and more.
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26 Best in Show winners crowned at CES 2026 across multiple categories including TVs, projectors, loudspeakers, home theater, portable audio, headphones and more.
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Be Your Own Hollywood Mogul When the Hollywood studio system of movie production was at its peak from the 1930s to the 1950s, part...
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With Super Bowl almost upon us, and March Madness (basketball) barely one month off, the best way to deal with the winter (if you’re...
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Question. If I’m setting up a 5.1-channel speaker-system, must all speakers come from the same brand, with identical system specs, for ideal audio performance?...
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1. Choose the Right Screen Size for your Room Your viewing distance and screen size will determine picture clarity and detail as well as...
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It probably comes as no surprise that listening to music, whether live or smoothly reproduced from recordings can be a source of intense pleasure...
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Amid the multi-channel world of Dolby Digital 7.1 and surround sound, we don’t often stop to question what is it we’re seeking? (For this...
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Modern Marvel All of us take for granted lots of modern marvels, but it nevertheless still impressed me in that instant that a tiny...
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Aldo Nova (seated) and Ian Colquhoun in Aldo’s recording studio. Aldo has the M2s, M3s and M22s in his studio. Axiom speakers were also...
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In an uncertain economy, as companies run lean and lay off workers, most everyone except the super rich rein in their spending one way...
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1. Buy Blackout Curtains to Darken the Room for Optimal Picture Quality If you are watching front projection images on a large separate screen...
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These common home theater setup mistakes may ruin your home-theater viewing/surround sound experience 1. Too Much Light While flat-screen TV images—plasma, LCD or DLP—can...
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When is it necessary to use “separates”? What are the advantages, if any? And just how do you define separates? Most of us who...
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Tips for Better Sound From Your Audio Equipment After last month’s Axiom AudioFile appeared (February), an attentive reader emailed me and suggested that my...
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A jury rules Samsung smartphones and tablets violate patents held by Apple The first round of the Apple v. Samsung lawsuit is over and...
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The strongest iPad launch yet. Worldwide availability coming to 25 more countries on March 23, 2012. Apple today announced it has sold three million...
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After almost a year in which the Apple iPad has been virtually the only game in town in tablet computers, some serious competitors are...
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