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Aspect Ratio and Widescreen TVs (presented by Philips) It seems like everyone is excited about widescreen TV. Really, who wouldn’t be-especially if you are...
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Our picks for the truly standout audio systems at various price points at T.H.E. Show SoCal 2025.
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Marantz offers six home theater A/V Receivers from $599 to $4,500. What’s the difference, and which one might be right for you?
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Class D amps from $130 to $50,000—pulling more ears into hi-fi without demanding you sell a kidney. Solid tech, serious power, and none of...
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Forget what you think you know. Eastern European brands like Meze, Ferrum, and Heed are dragging high-end audio into the future — and sounding...
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A deep dive into two legendary 1990s CD players—the Copland CDA 288 and YBA CD1 Blue Laser. Vintage, overbuilt, and sonically elite, these eccentric...
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Class D amplifiers are revolutionizing the audiophile world, delivering top-tier sound without the hefty price tag. Discover how brands like NAD, Topping, and SMSL...
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Question If the DACs (digital-to-analog converters) in most current Blu-ray/DVD players are sufficiently good and there is no audible difference between them and dedicated...
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Get out your vacuum cleaner and clean the vents of your AV receiver or amplifier. Dust inhibits air circulation and proper cooling of any...
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If you’ve acquired a flat-panel HDTV plasma or LCD display, chances are the sound quality of the display’s puny internal speakers is abysmal, and...
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Axiom Audio Epic 80-800 7.4 Home Theater Speaker System: $12,458.30 Are we looking for a “faithful re-creation” of a musical event by our home...
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There are now more than one hundred million smart TVs installed in homes worldwide, according to new research from Strategy Analytics’ Connected Home Devices...
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Consumers are seeking high-definition televisions (HDTVs) with the latest built-in features as a growing number of U.S. adults own smart app-enabled displays, according to...
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Plasma flat-panel: (plasma reviews | plasma prices) Capable of bright, detailed, high-contrast images with very good blacks in a normally lit room. Viewable over...
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5.1 Symptoms That Your TV Display Needs Proper Setup Just about everyone has had the experience of visiting friends or relatives when there happens...
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Ten Tips to Getting a Big Screen TV We all want bigger screens for increased impact, because larger TV screens, like high-quality 5.1-channel surround...
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Excerpt from Audioholics.com article We gathered up 5 of our audio buddies. We took my “old” Martin Logan SL-3 (not a bad speaker for...
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Move Your Rear Speakers to Side Walls It may seem obvious, but if you have the surround speakers in a 5.1-channel system behind you,...
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Most of us don’t think much about the images we look at on a TV, flat-panel display, or on a laptop or desktop computer...
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As the days in the Northeast, Northwest and Midwest get chillier and darker with fewer daylight hours, we tend to move indoors and spend...
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Figure 1 Then we moved the measuring microphone 1/2-inch to the side, off center from the sweet spot, and recorded another frequency-response curve. The...
Amplifiers
As Axiom’s chief R&D engineer Tom Cumberland describes it, a digital amplifier is a “power DAC”, and of course a DAC (Digital-to-Analog Converter) is...
Amplifiers
One of the most difficult-to-understand terms for newcomers (and even experienced enthusiasts) in audio and sound reproduction is the decibel, partly because it’s a...
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