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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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Loudspeaker Basics 101- Part 1 This is the first of three posts that will take a basic look at: Speaker drivers and crossovers Speaker enclosures and Room placement Introduction Every day we listen to sound emanating from radios, TV’s, phones, computers and of course our Hi-Fi and HT systems. They […]

Loudspeaker Basics 101 – Part 1

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Filmmaker Mode Unveiled By UHD Alliance
Filmmaker Mode Unveiled By UHD Alliance At a recent press event at the Screen Actors Guild, Martin Scorsese, members of the UHD Alliance, several major consumer electronics manufacturers, and leading Hollywood filmmakers including Christopher Nolan, Paul Thomas Anderson, Ryan Coogler, Rian Johnson, and Patty Jenkins officially announced a new partnership […]

Filmmaker Mode Unveiled By UHD Alliance

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