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Written by Jason Crawford
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Tuesday, 10 August 2010 00:00 |
I think of good times and crazy innovations when I think of Beck Hansen's music. He's one of those folks that are so cool that they don't need a last name. Most folks just call him "Beck." I will too from this point on.
Tags: Audiophile | LPs | Vinyl |
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Written by Chris Eberle
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Thursday, 15 July 2010 00:00 |
Dream Vision, an emerging brand in America, has been developing and marketing high-end models in Europe since 1996. In 1999, they became available on this side of the Atlantic when they introduced, with the help of Audio Plus Services, the world’s first consumer-targeted DLP projector, the DL500. Today their DLP and LCoS designs offer cutting-edge features and most importantly, high performance. They’ve also made some of the most stylish projectors I’ve ever seen. Created by leading French industrial designers; their chassis’ make a bold statement as a centerpiece in a modern media room. With unique options like fixed anamorphic lenses, Dream Vision has projection systems to suit a wide variety of home theater installations. In this review, we cover the Dream Vision Starlight1, which is a three-chip LCoS projector.
Tags: 7.1 | LCD | LCoS | Projectors | Resolution |
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Written by Chris Heinonen
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Thursday, 12 August 2010 00:00 |
For a long time now, I've been wanting an easy solution to get music streaming all throughout my house. I've added a Network Attached Storage device (NAS) to allow me to keep all the music in one location that is always accessible, and I've tried out many different streaming solutions, from the Sony PS3 to various processors and receivers with DLNA access built in. Unfortunately, nothing to this point has been both powerful, and easy to use.
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Written by John E. Johnson, Jr.
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Thursday, 08 July 2010 00:00 |
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 Although SACDs and DVD-As have not succeeded as much as music studios had thought, and audiophiles had hoped, they are still being released in small quantities, particularly by independent labels. However, there is another alternative, which is downloading the high rez albums if they are not available commercially on discs in stores.
Tags: DVD A | Universal Players |
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Written by John E. Johnson, Jr.
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Wednesday, 25 August 2010 00:00 |
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 After seeing the Win Analog preamp and power amplifiers at the California Audio Show a few weeks ago, I drove to the Win Analog offices in the San Francisco East Bay and interviewed the designer, Andy Ton. These amplifiers are very unusual, especially the power amplifiers, which use a single radio transmitter triode as the output tube in single-ended configuration, with an output of 100 watts rms in Pure Class A. Click on the photo to go to the interview to see why he used such a tube rather than a more conventional audio tube.
Tags: Class A | Interviews | Triode | Tubes |
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Written by Niko Coromelas
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Sunday, 15 August 2010 12:12 |
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 Congratulations to the winner of the OPPO BDP-83/NuForce Edition Universal Blu-ray Player, Niko Coromelas. Niko's story about his experience building these beautiful speakers was posted in the CAVE and we are featuring them here. What a great project and Congratulations Niko!!
Well I don't know how many of you have tried your hand at making your own speakers but recently I set out on a project for a 3-way system and thought I would share it with everyone. My goal was to build a system that would be pleasing for both listening to Music as well as watching Movies with my projector. In the end, I was looking for a respectable set--namely better than what I could buy at a typical store. I didn't want it to cost me a fortune or never finish the project, I had that experience once before. Anyone who has gotten into a project knows what I'm talking about. You start, it seems fun with all the neat stuff, so you keep going, finding new things to add, then rebuilding half way through thus repeating the cycle till you never seem to finish. Well...this wasn't a trap I wanted to fall into!
Tags: DIY | Speakers |
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Written by Cory Potts
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Thursday, 05 August 2010 00:00 |
Welcome to the second of Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity System Reviews, where we choose a complete home theater setup and evaluate it for continuity, system synergy and to take some of the guesswork out of buying a complete home theater system and wondering if it all will work together seamlessly. We hope to hit all of the speed bumps so you don’t have to. In this review, we take a look at a Yamaha BD-S1065 Blu-ray player, Yamaha RX-V2065 receiver, and Phase Technology speakers.
Tags: Blu ray Player | Receivers | Soundbar | Speakers | Subwoofers |
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