Decades after its birth, multi-channel audio is still confusing to many consumers, particularly when it comes to more than 5.1 channels. John Sciacca explains the evolution of surround sound and how those extra channels benefit listeners.
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Wes Phillips explores the speaker types available today and offers practical advice on considering lifestyle and listening habits in making a choice.
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On Layla, Eric Clapton, Duane Allman, and other assorted friends shifted compositional gears to take listeners on an emotional ride into the mean old world of broken strings and broken hearts. The key to the newly paved aural highway can be found within its genuine, raw grooves.
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Over the years I’ve had the good fortune to listen to and own, some of the best audio equipment in the world. My first truly “high-end” speakers were Infinity Servo-Statik 1 speakers.
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Back in July, 2014, our COO Andrew Davis was approached by a client from Annapolis to put in a theater room, which usually comes across as a pretty standard project. With a lot of vision and effort, this request turned into a theater room that exceeded both Gramophone’s and the client’s expectations.
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Love at first ... listen? Get ready for Valentine's Day right by checking out this guide to the perfect headphones. Audio critic Geoff Morrison outlines the pros and cons of headphone types to guide inexperienced readers to the right choice.
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One of the most exciting and best-reviewed technologies to emerge in 2013 was OLED, or Organic Light Emitting Diode, a technology used in smartphones, small displays, and now televisions. This article explores the pros and cons of the next big thing in video technology.
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A revisit to a wonderfully illuminating post about automated lighting.
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At Gramophone, we’re excited! Dolby Atmos is the biggest advancement in home theater sound in over a decade. Dolby Atmos was first shown in commercial movie theaters with the release of Brave in 2012.
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