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This letter is generally concerning Kris Deering’s testing of Kaleidescape’s Terra server in Sound & Vision February/March 2022, but also veers off into related ideas. Please forgive my ignorance in some areas. I am incarcerated and your magazine hel

Let’s get right to it—The Beatles’ Revolver further solidified the creative validity of the rock album format when it was released in August 1966. For more evidence of that, see Matt Hurwitz’s excellent insider story on page 28 to see how Revolver’s

Waterboarding is a harsh interrogation technique. Most governments have disavowed and unsanctioned its use. There is a title for a Tom Cruise movie in there somewhere. In any case, waterboarding is essentially a form of torture. And a certain airline

Queen’s 13th studio album, May 1989’s The Miracle, has been long overdue for a proper reassessment, and a new eight-disc box set from Hollywood Records dubbed The Miracle Collector’s Edition enables our finely attuned ears to do just that. (See sideb

8-disc box set (1LP/5CD/1DVD/1BD) Hollywood Records OVERALL RATING Queen was still on fire as the 1980s came to a close. After taking a three-year break following the crest of their Live Aid/A Kind of Magic combo carpet ride, Queen dropped album No.

Q I have a Yamaha R-S202 stereo amp and would like to connect a Polk Audio PSW 10 active sub to the “B” speaker jacks while still powering the existing pair of Polk speakers from the “A” speaker jacks. Will this work, or must I instead connect the sp

After repeatedly encountering the same issues working with customers at my CI firm, I decided a series of columns on working with an installer might help. While this is written through the lens of working on an A/V project, many of these tips are app

They had me at Lola. Don’t let the hoity-toity name fool you: For three decades now, the Sony Pictures Classics label has been serving up exceptional independent films—imports, low-budget, genre, etc.—that might not otherwise find a wide audience, an

FOR MANY BEATLES FANS, Revolver is their favorite album. A balance of great songwriting and first dips into experimentation and change even place the group’s 1966 LP above Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Abbey Road for some. Revolver wa

For the control settings used here go to soundandvision.com. The measurements were made using CalMAN measurement software from Portrait Displays, together with X-Rite i1Pro3 Plus and Klein’s K-10A color meters and a Fresco 6G pattern generator from M

SOMEONE ONCE posited that the way to gauge the quality of a sequel is to plot the delta—better or worse—from the movie that spawned it. Employing that metric, Top Gun: Maverick might be the best damned sequel that I’ve ever seen. My immediate dislike

TECHNICALLY NOT a “non-stop thrill ride” (it’s a classy commuter vehicle so passengers need to board and disembark periodically), Bullet Train is nonetheless a rousing, violent and quite funny adventure. The story moves as fast as the locomotive itse

IF YOU were not aware that Warner has been producing feature-length direct-to-video films based upon DC Comics characters for 15 years and counting, you’re really missing out. Often closely based upon specific storylines, they bring to life compellin

THE WAR of the Worlds was a huge movie hit in 1953, based loosely on H.G. Wells 1898 classic novel of an invasion from Mars. We’re at the center of the action during our military’s initial encounter with the Martians’ unstoppable machines (the latter

THE INDIE video label has been killin’ it lately. Boutique label Kino Lorber Studio Classics has been coming on strong the past couple of years, and their recent Ultra HD 4K output has been second to none. With the freedom to work with a variety of s