A/V Receivers & Preamp/Processors
All receivers should have inputs for the full range of video connectors — composite, S-video, component video, and HDMI. With the popularity and standardization...
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Our picks for the truly standout audio systems at various price points at T.H.E. Show SoCal 2025.
A/V Receivers & Preamp/Processors
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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Thinner and Thinner Thin was in (isn’t it always?), and Sharp, Sony and Samsung showed flat, ultra-thin displays less than 1 inch thick, some...
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Screen Size? Base your screen size on your viewing distance, your budget, and how much High Definition TV you expect to watch. As a...
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There’s a business school case study about the fledgling airline business in the early part of the 20th century. According to the story, after...
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Many of the best video cables on the market today were designed primarily for use in the digital domain; but can a digital cable...
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By now, everyone in our business has either read or knows about Steve Jobs’s essay, Thoughts on Music by Steve Jobs. (If you haven’t...
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by the Consumer Electronics Retailers Coalition. (CERC – www.ceretailers.org) 1. When will the transition from analog to DTV broadcasting occur? The Congress has now...
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Reprinted with permission from Knowledge@Wharton. Big media players are accustomed to watching the ratings for the most popular music, video and book content, but...
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Reprinted with permission from Knowledge@Wharton. The phrase “free shipping” is like a siren song to many who shop on the Internet. For whatever reason,...
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Reprinted with permission from Knowledge@Wharton. Although Microsoft recently unveiled an ‘ultra-mobile personal computer,’ or UMPC, in a move to fill a market niche between...
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Reprinted with permission from Knowledge@Wharton. In the spring of 1980, “Dallas” ended its season with the biggest network television cliffhanger ever. Viewers waited all...
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by Alan Lofft, (bio), Axiom Audio When you look at the excitement that Dolby Digital and dts 5.1-channel soundtracks from DVDs can generate played...
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We live in a world of democratized production. Anyone with a compelling idea can use ubiquitously available hardware and software to create remarkably popular...
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“Is There an Ad Supported Internet Video Business?” There are only three business models: I pay, You pay, or Someone else pays In the...
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“For the past three months, an employee at Gawker Media has posted copyright videos sandwiched between ads for Gawker-owned properties such as Valleywag and...
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I was asked to guest lecture to a room full of MBA students from Columbia University the other night. The lecture took place at...
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What is Internet Radio? I am about to do the most technical article I have ever written for general public consumption and I promise...
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