by Daniel Kumin The decibel, “dB” for short, is all over audio like flies on a forgotten Twinkie. Sure, you can ignore it, or sort-of understand it, but if your really want to know who’s who and what’s what in audio, it really ain’t that hard. Work, in the physics...
Read MoreBy Daniel Kumin More amplifier power will reproduce music louder (and more importantly, cleaner-at-the-limit) than less power; everybody knows that. But how much do you really need? I can’t answer that---not without knowing what speakers in what room; how placed; how furnished, and what ...
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By Geoffrey Morrison With storage space on computers and phones at levels that would have seemed absurd just a few years ago, there are fewer and fewer reasons to settle for compressed music. Whether you still buy CDs and import them, or if your CD collection has been collecting dust since you co...
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By Darryl Wilkinson I hate cords, cables, and wires. Wires and cables collect dust, trip you, are never long enough (or are way too long), and in general make living with electronics a tangled mess. If you’ve ever had headphones wrenched from your ears when the cord got snagged on something...
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This Summer has been the time for rain, rain, and more rain. And with rain, comes thunder, lightning, flooding, wind, and worst of all, electrical outages and surge damage. We thought we were out of the woods - or the storms, in this case - but even the end of July is proving to be a continuation of...
Read MoreBy Geoffrey Morrison If you’ve recently bought, or are thinking of buying, a new TV, you’ve probably heard about refresh rate and may have wondered what it meant. This number, usually in some multiple of 60 (120, 240, 600, etc.), is an indication of how often the television changes th...
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By Al Griffin Like it or not, 3D is here to stay. Movies produced in 3D remain big box-office earners, and most 3D titles eventually see distribution on Blu-ray Disc. TV manufacturers have also started to incorporate 3D as a standard, rather than step-up, feature in new HDTVs and Blu-ray players,...
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It doesn't take special ears to become an audiophile... just perhaps some doctor's orders to listen to music. Join our marketing associate Jo for a week of product testing and reflection on what the word "audiophile" truly means. Check out her previous entry on vinyl here. ...
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Last week our founder and CEO, Brian Hudkins and Director and COO, Andrew Davis, flew out to join HTSA (Home Technology Specialists of America) for their 2015 Spring Conference. The four day, three night conference was located this year in Downtown Nashville, Tennessee, a city known for it...
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By John Sciacca In the beginning, there was one-channel and it was mono. And verily, it was good. Then the light grew brighter, and man said unto himself, “If one is good, then certainly two is better!” And left and right were created, and thus we had stereo. There was channel sepa...
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