AV Archive
Audio News for April 11, 2017
Hi-Res Streaming on Smartphones, PCs, and Tablets – Qpbuz Sublime+ will offer hi-res streaming next month for about £300 annually. It will offer 24-bit hi-res streaming of 60,000 albums. Currently the highest Qobuz tier is Sublime, offering CD-quality 16/44.1 audio for £190 per year. If you want to purchase any hi-res album via downloading, there […]
Audio News for February 14, 2017
Dolby Atmos Soundbars – Since a vast majority of households are thining of home theater in terms of a TV display plus a soundbar, the era of Dolby Atmos soundbars is upon us. Systems from LG, Sony, Onkyo, Samsung, Yamaha, Pioneer, Philips and Creative create a choice for consumers. Some of them support DTS:X as […]
Audio News for January 6, 2017
LG’s Ultra-thin TV at CES – The new LG Signature LED W7 might be – at 2.6 mm – the thinnest TV ever made. They call it a “Picture on Wall” and it uses both magnetic hardware and nails to mount it nearly flush to the wall. And it is UHD, and allows you to […]
Audio News for December 27, 2016
Alexa Control4 Home Automation Setup – Control4 is smart-home-as-a-service company which specializes in custom-installed connected entertainment setups. Fairly high end, the master receivers start at $600 and go as high as $2000, and to that must be added costs of your smart home gear. But it offers seamless, dealer-installed integration of all home AV needs, […]
Audio News for October 7, 2016
Rocky Mountain Audio Fest Starts Today – The Rocky Mountain Audio Fest starts today, October 7, from noon to 7 pm, in the Denver Marriott Tech Center. The three-day audio show, which ends on October 9 at 4pm, promises 128 exhibit rooms, 32 vendor displays, plus three more in the parking lot, 332 exhibit companies, […]
Audio News for August 23, 2016
Sennheiser Coming to the Big Apple – Headphones will take center stage in October when Sennheiser opens two retail outlets in New York. Both a flagship Soundscape showroom in Westfield World Trade Center and a pop-up store in SoHo will stock Sennheiser’s audiophile range of headphones, including the new HE 1 electrostatic reference headphone system, […]
Editorial for May 2016
The imported, limited edition 64-CD Leonard Bernstein Collection Vol. 2 is our May free drawing. The repertoire is supplemented by five American Decca CDs, analyses/performances of Beethoven’s Erocia, Schmann’s Second, Dvoraks’ New World, Brahms’ Fourth and Tchaikovsky’s Pathetique. It is rounded off with original cast selections from Fancy Free and On The Town. It is […]
Audio News for December 1, 2015
American Musician Allen Toussaint Dies; Onkyo – AV Electronics on a Budget; Pickwick Group Hit by Huge Court Costs; Brief Profile of EMI
Audio News for November 24, 2015
Crowdfunded Hi-Fi Streamer Looks Like a Flask; Another Kickstarter-funded TV Audio Device; Update of Google Chromecast; DTS Expansion of Play-Fi Wireless Audio Ecosystem
Audio News for August 18, 2015
Astell & Kern Add Second Hi-Res Home Audio System; Sony Pictures to Offer Classic Films in Dolby Atmos Surround; Integra Expands Audio Components with Dolby Atmos and Upgrades for DTS:X; Smart Phones with Walkie Talkie Feature
Audio News for May 19, 2015
Blues Star B.B. King Dies; The End of Brick-and-Mortar Retail Stores?; Sennheiser’s Latest Headphones Let You Dial Up the Bass; Denon Upgrades Its Heos Technology for Multiroom Audio
Audio News for May 12, 2015
Spotify Now Available on DTS Wireless Home System; Electronic Devices Kept Plugged In When Not in Use Waste Money; Home Depot to Put Apple Pay in Its 2000 Stores; May 1946 – Sony Electronics Founded In the Ruins of Post-War Japan
Audio News for April 7, 2015
Denon Multizone Audio Options; Roku Updates Two AV Video Streamers; The Possible Complications of Cord-Cutting; Samsung Prices New UHD TVs
Audio News for March 17, 2015
Pay-TV Subscribers Fall by 4000 in 2014; Pioneer Car Audio Shows New Units; Wireless Audio Beginning to Take Over; Object-Based Surround Coming to TV
Audio News for March 10, 2015
Simon Rattle Also Appointed Music Director of LSO; Latest Sonos Update is a Leap Forward; DTS Challenges Sonos in Wireless Music; Sony Electronics U.S. Shutting Down Most Standalone Stores; How to Improve Your Voice on Audio Chats
Audio News for March 3, 2015
PENTATONE Remastered Classics Series; M-GO to Provide Both DTS-HD Multi-channel Sound and DTS Headphone:X; Dolby Atmos Surround Appears in Two Entry-Level Android Tablets; IKEA Adds Qi Charging to Their Furniture; Pioneer Now a Subsidiary of Onkyo
Audio News for February 24, 2015
Tiffen Team Gets Oscar; BenQ Ships Bluetooth Speaker with Electrostatic Technology; AV Dealer ProSource Schedules Summit Agenda; Sony Offers Four New Bluetooth Headphones; Sales of LPs Surge 49%
Audio News for February 20, 2015
Questions for RadioShack’s Board; DSI Adds Philips AV Line; Dish Systems – To Buy or Sell?; Increase of Channels via Sling TV; Carriers Win Spectrum, But Still Not Enough
Audio News for February 10, 2015
RadioShack Store Closures Begin; Pioneer Posts Gain in Q3 Sales, But Higher Net Loss; ProSource Adds Stewart Filmscreen; Control4 Buys Leaf for $9 Million; Joe Grado, of Grado Labs, Dies at Age 90
ImmersAV – Point-of-View Binaural Audio Recording with Hi-Def Video, Blu-ray (2014)
An interesting Blu-ray demo sampler of binaural and speaker playback.
Audio News for December 2, 2014
CE Commerce a Holiday Weekend Winner; Wireless and Installed Speakers Combined in New Multiroom System; New Denon Flagship AV Receiver With Everything
Audio News for September 19, 2014
LSO Live Begins Releasing Audio-Only Blu-rays; CEA Adapts and Supports Wrong Use of 4K to Promote UHD; Yamaha Back In Computer Speaker Market; New Debate Between DisplayPort 1.3 and HDMI
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