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Congratulations! Welcome home! That five-year mission to Mars (and back!) must have really been something. While you were gone, honestly, nothing much happened. There was a flu bug of unknown origins, but that’s about it. Well, you might want to look

If anybody has Mark Knopfler’s ear, it’s Guy Fletcher. He’s the legendary British singer/songwriter/guitarist’s longtime go- to production partner, and he’s also the man (or guy) responsible for the stellar Atmos mix on the Blu-ray version of Knopfle

Q (REGINALD TINSLEY) Bluesound’s Node streamer, which includes a built-in DAC, costs around $500. Meanwhile, companies like Lumin, Linn, and Naim sell streamers without built-in DACs for over $2,000 or $3,000. What do these more expensive streamers d

As much as I love playing video games on my main audio system, I recognize that, unlike music, a video game soundtrack filled with effects and voice chat is not one that a non-gamer will enjoy. So when I dive into a Grand Theft Auto Online session, u

REMEMBER WHEN cars ran on gasoline, cell phones flipped, and you needed a forklift to get a flagshipmodel AV receiver onto your equipment rack? Denon does. Its new pennant-flying model, the AVR-A1H, clocks in at an impressive 71 pounds. And while I m

We don’t often get a chance to peer into tomorrow, but spending half an hour for a free demo of Vision Pro at an Apple store is one of those opportunities not to be missed. My first encounter with the virtual reality headset that Apple refers to as “

A SELF-DESCRIBED purveyor of “smart projectors and laser TVs,” Xgimi may not be the first brand name mentioned in answer to a man-on-thestreet projector query. Though Internet forum gurus and YouTube influencers have done much to espouse Xgimi’s evol

I can remember sitting in the hospital room writing that month’s edition of this column (called “The Custom Installer” at the time) after my daughter, Lauryn, was born in November 2006. Fast-forward 17 years, and now Lauryn is 17 years old, taking co

Calibration equipment includes a NIST-certified Minolta CS-200, Murideo 8K SIX G and 8K SEVEN signal generators, Bullet Train HDMI cables, and Calman software. Posting settings for projectors are a bit like Fool’s Gold. Since the projector, screen, a

SAMSUNG’S 77-INCH QN77S95D TV is the third version of its OLED TVs, which combine quantum dots and blue OLED light. This technology is called “Quantum-OLED” by Samsung Electronics and “QD-OLED” by Samsung Display, the company that makes the screens.

THOUGH THE famous Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) quote, “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated,” has been twisted over time from the original quote, “The report of my death was an exaggeration,” both very much apply to the state of physical me

THE QN75QN900D Neo QLED TV is the 75-inch model in Samsung’s 2024 flagship 8K mini-LED LCD TV series, and it delivers a brilliantly bright, colorful, and detailed picture from most content. The series replaces last year’s flagship 8K Neo QLED models,

MANY OF us use inexpensive smart speakers throughout our homes to play music and control everything from lights to microwaves and washing machines. Devices like the Amazon Echo are great at controlling smart devices along with other more capable smar

HERE’S THE TL/DR: this review is mainly for Gen-Xers. If your first gaming console was a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) or Sega Genesis, or a PlayStation or XBox, then you’ll probably do better just to move on. But for those of us who grew up in

THE HOME theater projector market is undergoing a major transformation. Lamp-based projectors are being replaced by solid-state projectors. BenQ is a unique company in this market, primarily using 4LED technology instead of the single or multilaser s

TOM PETTY was going for broke because he had no other choice. He and his then-band Mudcrutch were running on fumes in their Gainesville, Florida home base—so, on April 1, 1974, they decided to head west in search of the last chance saloon of beckonin

Across a career now spanning 40 years (if we use the version of his résumé that lists The Terminator as his debut), James Cameron has proven himself as one of our most popular filmmakers. His oeuvre totals less than 10 movies, yet they have been much

A WOMAN who has committed suicide is given a baby’s brain by a brilliant but demented surgeon (Willem Dafoe) before being reanimated using traditional mad-scientist electrical feats. Thereafter, Bella (Emma Stone) must gradually learn everything–walk

IN JASON STATHAM’S latest action-thriller, The Beekeeper, he portrays Adam Clay, a retired operative from a clandestine organization known as “Beekeepers.” After the tragic loss of someone close to him, due in part to the actions of professional onli

THE COMEDY classic Mean Girls and its 2024 musical remake serve up the same basic story, with or without the song-and-dance numbers. Wide-eyed Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan/Angourie Rice) returns from Africa with her zoologist parent(s), transitioning fr

WRITER/DIRECTOR Darren Aronofsky’s debut feature still pulses with the promise of a brilliant career ahead, swinging for the fences despite a meager budget and the limited technology of the era. Pi tells the story of Max Cohen, a tortured mathematica

THE DEPARTED is director Martin Scorsese’s hard-hitting drama that tells the story of undercover South Boston rookie cop Billy Costigan, gangland chief Frank Costello, and Colin Sullivan, Costello’s state police mole. Costigan is assigned to get clos

THREE DESPERADOES await their revenge-crazed leader, arriving at an isolated frontier town on the twelve o’clock train. Their target is the marshal, an honor-bound man of conscience who, despite this day being his wedding day, is committed to stand a

When you have a hit, don’t quit! Inspired in some measure by Dune: Part Two’s recent smash success on the big screen, we thought, why not revisit our curated sampler of new and exciting gifts you can treat yourself or someone else to? After all, Fath

Machine Head is one of those perfect storm albums. As Deep Purple entered the 1970s, they undertook a creative shift from the psychedelic blues/pop of their late-’60s origins—embodied by hits like 1968’s perpetually catchy “Hush” and their cover of N