October/November 2023

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The Evolution of Performance
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EDITOR: Mark Henninger SENIOR EDITOR, TECHNICAL EDITOR: Tom Norton EDITOR AT LARGE, WEB EDITOR: Bob Ankosko CONTRIBUTING TECHNICAL EDITORS: Barb Gonzalez, Daniel Kumin, Rob Sabin, John Sciacca, Leslie Shapiro, David Vaughn, Jim Wilson CONTRIBUTORS: M
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Letters
Why Local Stations Cut Access to National TV Channels “In West Texas, our local Fox station is in a dispute with DirecTV, AT&T TV, and U-verse. Because of this, those of us with these carriers have been unable to access the national Fox station since
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The Stress of a New TV
In switching from a 7-year-old 55-inch LCD to a new 65-inch OLED TV, I’ve been awestruck by the transformation in picture quality. Yet, the upgrade has not been pain free. This is partly due to the manufacturer’s abandonment of legacy ports. The ster
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The Time When That Radio Station Bricked Your Car’s Radio
Has this ever happened to you? You’re cruising down the boulevard, listening to your favorite music on your favorite radio station, then suddenly your infotainment system goes dead. WTH? If you were driving a Mazda, this might sound all too familiar.
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The Lexicon of Atmos
ABC didn’t exactly fit into the expected early-1980s new-wave mold—and that was just fine with the band’s co-founding lead vocalist and chief songwriter, Martin Fry. To that end, ABC’s debut album, June 1982’s synth-pop classic The Lexicon of Love, c
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iMac Analog Connection, Improving Atmos
Q Is there a way I can play music from my iMac’s Music app through my Pioneer SX-1250 Receiver? PAUL A Certainly, connecting your iMac to a vintage Pioneer SX-1250 Receiver offers a unique blend of the digital and analog worlds. The most straightforw
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Summer Entertaining - Video
As I write this, we are in the height of summer! Where I live in South Carolina, the beaches are packed, families are enjoying the last days of summer vacation by the pool, and outdoor entertaining is on my customers’ minds. In my previous column, I
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The Hidden Cost of Cutting the Cord
As streaming media has grown over the past decade, many of us have migrated, cutting the cord from cable/satellite providers to getting all our entertainment through streaming services. At first, it was a bargain, a relief from spending over $100 per
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Products Of The Year
TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT EISA, VISIT WWW.EISA.EU EISA, or the Expert Imaging and Sound Association, is an organisation representing 58 of the most respected special interest publications and websites from 29 countries that cover Hi-Fi, Home Theater Vid
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More Eisa Awards 2023-2024
EISA CAMERA OF THE YEAR 2023-2024 NIKON Z 8 EISA ADVANCED FULL-FRAME CAMERA 2023-2024 SONY ALPHA 7R V EISA FULL-FRAME CAMERA 2023-2024 CANON EOS R6 MARK II EISA CONTENT CREATOR CAMERA 2023-2024 SONY ZV-E1 EISA APS-C CAMERA 2023-2024 FUJIFILM X-H2 EIS
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4K Flagship
FOR THE past ten years we’ve watched 4K LCD and OLED TVs compete in the wake of plasma’s demise. There was the death of 3D. And for a while, we even had curved screens to contend with. At first OLED had a distinct picture quality advantage over LCDs,
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Box Full of Boom
IS THERE ROOM for a party speaker in your life? How about this question instead: do you like to have fun? If so, then the answer is yes! This sometimes scorned category stands out in my experience because in recent years, whenever I see people having
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Budget Friendly Buds
I WILL just come right out and admit this: I am an audio snob, perhaps brought on by my early childhood years listening to my dad’s Quad Electrostatic speakers or the 25 years spent in professional recording studios. I know good sound quality and I l
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Elac Ds1200
WHEN YOU hear the name ELAC, do you immediately think of subwoofers? Speakers yes, but probably not subwoofers. Did you know they currently sell 9 different models? What I have in front of me is their top-of-the-line; the Varro Dual Reference Series
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RSL Goes Deeper
RSL SPEAKERS, by now most of you have heard of this company. But a decade ago? Not so much. I suspect the reason - or to be more precise, reasons - you’ve heard of them now are manifold. Among those are their attention to detail, impeccable build qua
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Huge Screen, Mini Price
ONE SIGNIFICANT difference between building a home theater around a video projector or a conventional flat-screen television has been image size. Projector fans will point to the immersion that big-screen projection offers, with the screen size limit
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Go Big or Go Home
RYTHMIK AUDIO is a company that specializes in the design and manufacture of high-performance subwoofers. It was founded in 2001 by Brian Ding, who is an avid audiophile and music lover. His passion for music led him to experiment with different subw
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Power Packed
IT’S BEEN a few years since I’ve had a big Onkyo AV receiver under the operating lights. And the brand’s new flagship model, the TX-RZ70, certainly qualifies: nearly 8 inches tall and some 19 inches deep, and tipping the beam at almost 50 lb, the TX-
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Spider-man: Across The Spider-verse
Only a few moments into Across the Spider-Verse’s two-hour-and-20-minute runtime, we can begin to understand why this sequel to 2018’s Oscar-winning Into the Spider-Verse took almost five years to arrive. Dramatically bold and visually (and sonically
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Cinderella
DISNEY’S BELOVED Cinderella proffers a more traditional telling than I’ve been exposed to in recent years, distinct from the versions by Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm or even Rodgers & Hammerstein’s subsequent musical take on the same source m
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Enter The Dragon
UNDER THE guise of an invitation-only tournament for the world’s most elite fighters, the notorious crimelord Han is in fact planning something far more sinister. After some convincing from British intelligence, martial arts master Lee (Bruce Lee) ag
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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
PRIVATELY, MANY of us have surely dreamed of being Ferris Bueller, although I’d wager that even more of us would simply love to have him for a best friend. In a career-defining performance from Matthew Broderick, no doubt aided by his stage backgroun
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Guardians Of The Galaxy Volume 3
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOLUME 3 finds our beloved band of misfits set on repairing the extreme damage done by Thanos during his run-in with The Avengers. It isn’t long before the Guardians’ attempt to return to normal is upended by a brutal attack f
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Rio Bravo
DIRECTOR HOWARD HAWK’S Rio Bravo is based on the short story of the same name by B.H. McCampbell. It takes place in the American West and tells the story of a small-town sheriff, John T. Chance, who enlists the help of “Dude,” a hard drinker with a p
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Roman Holiday
RANKED AS the #4 greatest love story of all time by the American Film Institute, Roman Holiday—director William Wyler’s 1953 fairy tale—memorably captures the bustling streets and iconic sites of Rome. The story is set against the backdrop of post-wa
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Sisu
COMBINING TWO bits of Finnish history—their gold rush plus the Germans’ retreat across the country in 1944—into something uniquely original, writer/director Jalmari Helander’s Sisu spins a thrilling, uber-violent work of fiction. A particularly nasty
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To Live And Die In L.a.
COULD THE acclaimed director of The French Connection still be relevant in the MTV era? That’s a big 10-4, with William Friedkin delivering another edgy tale of cops and robbers, this time set on the left coast, and even helming the Wang Chung music
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The Broadsword And The Beast
Like many rock bands that initially emerged from the free-flowing nether-reaches of the 1960s, Jethro Tull had a decision to make upon entering the 1980s—namely, stick with their signature sound, or embrace the emerging technology of the new decade?
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The Only Thing That’s Real
NO ONE does self-loathing, despair, and existential angst quite like Trent Reznor. Right from the outset of his then one-man band Nine Inch Nails’ October 1989 TVT debut album Pretty Hate Machine and the unforgiving, snarling manifesto of its opening

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