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And they asked, “What can you possibly do to follow up the remarkable Triton Reference?” The answer is; Triton One.R! GoldenEar Technology is pleased to announce the introduction of the new Triton One.R. This extraordinary new reference quality louds

I would like to comment favorably on the December 2018/January 2019 issue of Sound & Vision. There are many good, sensible reviews of affordable equipment in the issue and I liked reading about the music titles used during listening evaluations. The

Even though 4K TVs have been on the market for less than five years, numerous companies announced that they’ll start selling 8K TVs at CES 2019. This despite the fact that less than half of U.S. homes include a 4K TV, and there’s no 4K programming av

Shakespeare famously observed, “Brevity is the soul of wit.” But if Shakespeare could read modern texts, peppered with AFAIK, IMHO, LOL, OMG, ROTLF and WTF (which is NSFW), I’m not sure he would make the same assertion. And don’t get me started about

ATLANTIC TECHNOLOGY has been building excellent home theater speaker systems for nearly three decades so I welcomed the opportunity to check out its first multiroom-capable wireless speaker. The wedge-shaped Gatecrasher 1 has a wrap-around metal gril

Q I own a Denon AVR-S920W A/V receiver and am wondering if it’s possible to hook it up to my Samsung HW-MS650 sound bar to use in place of regular speakers. The sources I plan to connect to the receiver include a CD player, Blu-Ray player, TV (via HD

When I first began my job as a custom installer back in 1998, I frequently had to explain to people exactly what it was our company did. “We install home theater systems; it’s like having a movie theater in your house,” I’d usually say. I can remembe

AFFORDABLE, 4K-CAPABLE projectors are very much a reality — Sound & Vision has reviewed several such models plucked from the DLP, LCD, and LCOS camps. And in some cases, “affordable” can equate to $2,000 or less. One drawback you have to contend with

saw a steady expansion of high-performance technologies into a wider range of products. Support for Ultra HD and high dynamic range formats in TVs and projectors has now become mainstream. Dolby Atmos and DTS:X immersive sound can be found not just i

UNTIL RECENTLY, most home 4K projectors used lower-than-4K-resolution imaging chips and employed various types of time-offset pixel shifting to display a 4K image on a screen. Such projectors are affordable and widely available, and they can be remar

THE OTHER DAY a friend who’s neither a videophile nor an audiophile dropped by my home to watch a movie. A pair of loudspeakers I had just finished reviewing for Stereophile, our sister publication, were sitting in a corner, waiting to be packed up.

Q ACOUSTICS is a relatively new British loudspeaker manufacturer who has made a goodly amount of noise in the value/performance speaker arena for a dozen years now. I count the firm among the 21st-century flowering of affordable-speaker-makers cataly

IT’S EASY to get overlooked when you’re in the middle. A middle child misses out on both the attention that’s lavished on the first born and the doting care parents give to the baby of the family. The same thing can happen with an audio company’s pro

SVS, a company that made its name selling high-performance/high-value subwoofers direct to consumers via the web, has since gone on to build similarly gifted and affordable full-range speakers. Audiophile sound quality that doesn’t break the bank is

IT’S HARD to overstate the importance of Krell Industries in the history of high-end audio. Founded by Dan and Rondi D’Agostino in 1980, Krell was the audio equivalent of Lamborghini—an audacious riposte to more Ferrari-like rivals such as Mark Levin

SAY WHAT YOU WILL about controversial superstar Tom Cruise, his dedication to the big-screen Mission: Impossible franchise he launched in 1996 is nothing short of inspiring. Performing stunts that would give a professional thrill-seeker pause, he lit

IN A STORY so jaw-dropping it has to be true, rookie African-American cop Ron Stallworth (John David Washington), the only officer of color on the Colorado Springs police force, initiates an undercover investigation into the Ku Klux Klan amid tense r

WHEN WE LAST left our intrepid superheroes (in 2004’s The Incredibles) they had defeated the nasty villain Syndrome. The new film opens with the Incredibles battling the Underminer, the same villain they had encountered at the end of the previous fil

Westworld: Season One ended in a cliffhanger with Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) taking charge of the adult amusement park. Westworld: Season Two picks up shortly after this event with the puppet show now over and the liberated “hosts” coming after the h

FRESH OFF the success of his band’s appearance in Jonathan Demme’s seminal concert film, Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads front man David Byrne tried his hand at making his own feature film in 1986. A comedy styled as a documentary about the fictiona

IN PART BECAUSE it has now endured for 40 years, but also because it is the sort of thrilling cinematic entertainment we never seem to tire of, Superman has appeared on just about every home entertainment format, and deservedly so. The first comic bo