Sound & Vision - December 2019 - January 2020

A Victrola for Your Sonos

If you've wandered by Victrola turntables on the shelves in Walmart, Bed Bath & Beyond, or Crate & Barrel, you wouldn't set high expectations for the sound quality of those suitcase record players.

JOHN COUGAR MELLENCAMP SCARECROW SUPER DELUXE EDITION BOX SET

John Mellencamp was making waves. Saddled with the stage name \"John Cougar\" when he came onto the scene in the late1970s, once he began climbing the singles and sales charts, he asserted his artistic identity much more forcefully by crediting his hit October 1983 LP Uh-Huh to John Cougar Mellencamp.

Maximum Musical Pleasure

AS LONGTIME readers of Sound & Vision know, I have a passion for bass. Some might say I need to seek professional help in this regard-well, at least that's what my wife tells me! I've reviewed products for nearly 20 years and had dozens of subwoofers in and out of my theater during that time, and I am generally easy to please.

Luxurious Listening

BOWERS & WILKINS PX8 WIRELESS ANC HEADPHONES

Working with a custom installer

After encountering the same issues repeatedly when working with customers at my CI firm, I thought a series of columns on working with an installer might help. While this is written through the lens of working on A/V projects, many tips are applicable when hiring any trade to work in your home. And I can guarantee that following these suggestions will make the project-and your relationship with the installation team-go smoother for everyone.

The Full Moon Atmos Breakdown

Ryan Ulyate discusses mixing Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers' November 1993 Greatest Hits album in Atmos, and why sourcing the original stems made everything feel much more immersive.

Dig that Japanese Vinyl, Baby!

As Marshall McLuhan famously noted, \"The medium is the message.\" I don't know if Mr. McLuhan was an audio/video enthusiast, but that pronouncement, I think, perfectly describes a peculiar affliction that is all too common among us enthusiasts. Perhaps, just maybe, he was talking about you.

Samsung QN100B 4K Neo QLED TV

Bigger & Brighter is Better

Masterly Multichannel

WITH THE advent of features such as room correction, object-oriented surround, and networked/wireless streaming (to name but three), AV receivers have become more elaborate than ever.

Three for Three

IN THE early 1950s, Edgar Villchur, Henry Kloss, Malcolm S. Low, and Josef Anton Hofmann founded the Acoustic Research and Development Corporation.