Sound & Vision

“ The powerful sense of atmosphere that the One.R speakers conveyed conjure up memories of my time with the Triton Reference.” –Al Griffin, Sound & Vision GoldenEar Technology is pleased to announce the introduction of the new Triton One.R. This extr

Following an overriding trend that started many years back, the annual Custom Electronics Design Industry Association (CEDIA) Expo, held this year at the Denver Convention Center, showcased an abundance of home automation technologies—everything from

Listeners tend to consider an external digital-to-analog converter as either completely unnecessary or absolutely essential. If you believe bits is bits, you’re probably perfectly happy with the converter inside your smartphone, tablet, or computer.

First, I will create a company with a cute, friendly name. Then I will build: vacuum cleaners; a web browser, search engine, and video-sharing website; a smartphone operating system used by 70 percent of all smartphones; mapping software with tremend

Audioengine is well-known for making affordable powered and passive speakers that are compact enough for desktop use. Like several of the company’s previous offerings, its most recent model, the A2+, is a petite powered speaker with multiple connecti

My company has installed whole-house, distributed audio systems since literally the day we opened our doors back in 1995, and over the years we’ve witnessed generational improvements in technology. Mostly gone are wall-mounted rotary volume controls,

Sonos is no stranger to compact speakers that play without wires, but the new Move ($399) is the first truly portable, battery powered model to come from the company. The Move’s connectivity options let you tote it around the house and even outside w

Chances are by now you’ve seen HBO’s signature series, Game of Thrones. But if you’ve watched all 73 episodes/eight seasons only once, you haven’t fully appreciated the genius of author George R.R. Martin and GoT’s adoptive TV dads, showrunners David

TVs ARE cheaper than ever. Really. When you see a set priced at $3,500 and your first reaction is a gag reflex, ponder this: a CRT color TV in 1970 might well have cost you $350. That would be a simple tabletop model offering glorious 480i standard-d

IF YOU’RE a home cinema nut like me, there’s always one thing that makes or breaks the experience: screen size. For the last 15 years, I’ve owned a front projection system that beams images well over 100 inches diagonal, and once you have that at hom

AUSTIN, TEXAS, that state’s vibrant capital city, houses many cultural icons. For Millenials (not me), it means the South by Southwest film, music, and tech festival. For Formula 1 racing fans (ok, I confess…) the Circuit of The Americas is—finally—t

Portrait Display’s CalMAN 2018 software controlling a Murideo Fresco Six-G pattern generator was used for calibration. Measurements were taken with a Minolta CS-200 colorimeter (NIST certified 08/2018). For test bench measurements, a 100-IRE Full Fie

MARANTZ HAS been a premium audio brand for more than 65 years, so it makes sense that the company’s A/V receivers focus squarely on audio performance, rather than racking up loads of home theater bells and whistles only a few will use. But while it’s

HEGEL MUSIC SYSTEMS is a Norwegian audio electronics manufacturer that has been slowly and steadily making a mark on the high-end audio world since it started out in the early 1990s. One thing that distinguishes Hegel from other audio companies is it

MANY YEARS ago (the early 1980s, to be precise), Polk Audio produced the first speakers to feature a technology it had developed called SDA (Stereo Dimensional Array). The idea behind SDA was to eliminate a problem called interaural crosstalk that’s

OVER THE PAST 25 years, the Danish Audiophile Loudspeaker Industries company has grown from a small and relatively obscure maker (in the U.S. market, at least) to a much more major player in the world’s crowded loudspeaker arena. The Danes’ latest mo

BLAME IT ON SONOS. In the early 2000s, at what was then the Los Angeles headquarters of the Stereophile Guide to Home Theater, we were visited by a gentleman from that then largely unknown company who had a product he was eager to promote: a wireless