Would You Volunteer?

Like many of us, you are getting on in years. Whether through disease or simple wear and tear, the delicate mechanisms of your inner ears aren't quite what they used to be. You might be hearing spurious tones, or just not hearing some things at all. If only you could get back your younger ears. Well, could I interest you in a neuroprosthesis?

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.

Get the Bigger Picture

EPSON EPIQVISION LS800 4K UST LASER PROJECTOR

2022 TOP PICKS OF THE YEAR

WE LIVE in a remarkable era where home entertainment delivers experiences with convenience and quality that was the stuff of science fiction not long ago.

PROJECTS/OBJECTS

Our guide to the everexpanding and wholly immersive audio world of the late, great Frank Zappa, courtesy of longtime FZ Vaultmeister Joe Travers and remix engineer Craig Parker Adams.

As Good As It Gets

LG 65G2PUA OLED Ultra HDTV

Nugs Redug

Revisiting nugs.net, the concert streaming site that continues to provide new and vintage hi-res live recordings from a wide swath of name artists.

Modern Marvel

MARANTZ MODEL 40N STREAMING INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER

Laser LCD

EPSON LS12000 4K PRO-UHD LASER LCD PROJECTOR

THE ATMOS BRANCH

Porcupine Tree returns after a decade-long hiatus to deliver a career benchmark, Closure/ Continuation. All three band members give us the scoop on how it all took root, and Steven Wilson takes us inside the making of the album's truly stunning Dolby Atmos mix.

TALKING HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE

Bill Mandel, co-manager at HDR10+ Technologies, provides an update on the HDR10+ format

Sony, Spider-Man, and the Statue of Liberty

Spider-Man is a comic-book character that was created in 1962. The inaugural issue sold for 12 cents. Sony Pictures, which now owns the screen rights to the character, decided not to release the latest Spider-Man movie in the world's biggest movie market. That decision might cost Sony as much as $340 million.

Sudio E2 Noise-Canceling Wireless Earbuds

Product Review

A New Classic

NAD C 399 integrated amplifier

Cleer Alpha Noise-Canceling Headphones

Cleer Audio's new Alpha headphones, the company's flagship wireless noise-canceling model, is jam-packed with extras to augment its very good overall sound quality. Available in Midnight Blue and Stone finishes, the $199 Alpha offers many advanced and customizable features that make it well worth the price. And with everything from app-controlled ambient audio level adjustment to smart noise-cancellation and Dirac Virtuo processing, the Alpha is primed to take on any travel adventure.

Accessible Atmos

Polk Audio Signa S4 Soundbar

Bass Bruiser

Monolith by Monoprice 13-inch THX Ultra Certified subwoofer

THE UNIVERSAL DREAM

Rush's February 1981 masterpiece Moving Pictures ushered in a previously uncharted era that brought prog-rock closer to the heart of the masses. And now, 41 years later, this landmark album gets its further due, thanks to a truly comprehensive multidisc box set and a fully immersive Dolby Atmos mix.

MEDIA ROOM INSIDER: HOLLYWOOD COMES HOME

How a sound editor turned custom installation pro transformed his former home studio into a home theater.

P.U.L.S.E RESTORED & RE-EDITED DELUXE EDITION

PINK FLOYD

Sub Dominus

M&K SOUND X15+ SUBWOOFER