Monthly Archives: October 2019

McIntosh C2700 Valve & Semiconductor Pre-Amplifier
McIntosh C2700 Valve & Semiconductor Pre-Amplifier Cutting edge digital music capabilities combined with time tested vacuum tube performance – enter the McIntosh C2700 Valve & Semiconductor Pre-Amplifier. A Little Background About This Highly Revered Audiophile Company. Based in Binghamton, NY with over 150 employees, McIntosh Laboratory, founded in 1949, continues to […]

McIntosh C2700 Valve & Semiconductor Pre-Amplifier

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8K CTA TV Certification
8K CTA TV Certification The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) has confirmed the official industry definition and logo for 8K TV’s. The new logo and certification process will come into effect with 2020 TV’s that  meet its definition of 8K Ultra High-Definition, the “next-generation” of high-resolution video. This new standard was […]

8K CTA TV Certification

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Acoustics 101-Designing Porous, Resonant and Reflective Sound Treatments
Loudspeaker Basics 101 – Part 3 In Loudspeaker Basics 101 part 3, this final post in the series, we examine where your stereo/satellite speakers should be placed, and in particular the optimum locations for your sub-woofers. Introduction Life was so much easier years ago when we just had monophonic reproduction […]

Loudspeaker Basics 101 – Part 3

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JVC Dynamic Tone Mapping Firmware Update
JVC Dynamic Tone Mapping Firmware Update JVC adds Dynamic Tone Mapping (DTM) and a few other features to their NX and RS series of native 4K D-ILA projectors. What a win for all those new owners. Taken together with the new interface to the Panasonic UB9000 this projector series provides […]

JVC Dynamic Tone Mapping Firmware Update

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Sound United To Aquire Pioneer & Onkyo Brands
Sound United Terminates Onkyo Acquisition Talks between Sound United and Onkyo Consumer Audio have broken down resulting in both companies backing out of an acquisition agreement. In my earlier post in mid-May, Sound United LLC had announced the signing of a term-sheet agreement to acquire Onkyo Corporation’s consumer audio division […]

Sound United Terminates Onkyo Acquisition

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Loudspeaker Basics 101 – Part 2                     In Loudspeaker Basics 101 – Part 2 we review why speaker enclosures are generally required, the different designs that are available and various cabinet issues. Introduction There are basically two types of speaker (cabinet) radiation: […]

Loudspeaker Basics 101 – Part 2

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