A Match for the Ages

BACK IN 2020 I reviewed the then-new Sonos Arc soundbar for Sound & Vision, and it never left my family room.

CINEMATIC SPOTLIGHT

ROB HAHN is an American film director of photography and a name you should be familiar with if you love movies. He worked as cinematographer for acclaimed director Frank Oz on The Stepford Wives, The Score, and In & Out.

Perpetual Motion

MARTINLOGAN, you know the name. They've been around since 1983 so pretty much everyone has heard of them.

QD-OLED FTW

SAMSUNG OLED G9 240 HZ 49\" ULTRA-WIDE MONITOR

Summer Entertaining

When you think of \"entertaining\" with your AV system, chances are the first thing that comes to mind is your home theater or media room. And while having friends over for dinner and a movie is a great use of your system, it's really just the tip of the iceberg.

Total Immersion

ARENDAL 1961 9.4.4 SPEAKER SYSTEM

Atmos Only Knows

Producer Giles Martin reveals how he focused on getting a “real” feel when he mixed The Beach Boys’ benchmark 1966 album, Pet Sounds, in Atmos.

The Music

THE SONOS Era 300 is the latest in a new generation of Atmos-compliant 'spatial audio' speakers that bring a more immersive listening experience without the hardware and installation grief inherent with discrete surround systems.

Sonos Era 100

A Versatile Compact Speaker

Invisible Treasure

I RECENTLY upgraded from traditional box speakers to in-wall speakers after delving into the world of in-walls with my recent review of the SVS 3000 In-Wall Subwoofer, which I installed in my den.

LIVEDEAD

BEAR WAS NOT HAPPY. As the 1970s began to unfurl, live engineer Owsley \"Bear\" Stanley was increasingly frustrated with the quality of the live sound he was in charge of mixing night after night for San Francisco's multi-genre jam stalwarts the Grateful Dead.

Music Metadata Smackdown

Classical music has a problem. A tiny company, and the world’s largest technology company, both think they have the answer.

Home Theater Ace

DENON AVR-X3800H AV RECEIVER REVIEW

Affordable Amplification

AUDIO AMPLIFIERS have but one task: take an electrical signal and make it more powerful without changing its character.

Headphone Heaven

THEY SAY money can't buy happiness. Without a doubt, it can buy the $999 Mark Levinson No. 5909 headphones, and without a doubt, these make me happy.

Studio Quality

HOW DO you know when an audio trend is more than just a bandwagon? When America's oldest hi-fi brand climbs on board. (Yes, I know that JBL and Klipsch were both founded in 1946. But JBL's earliest incarnation goes back to the 1930's.)

I SEE YOU

How James Cameron and his Visual Effects Team Create an Otherworldly Reality in Avatar: The Way of Water

Sofabaton X1 Remote - Out of Control

When Logitech stopped making Harmony remotes in 2021, few options remained. The Sofabaton X1, with its vast database of codes for TVs and other devices, sounded promising. If you want a single remote and are willing to invest time to set it up, you may get what you need but it's not a substitute for what it's intended to replace.

Thank You, Douglas Mandel

Recently, I described how a certain airline has devised a fiendish way to torment its passengers. That is, a type of torment beyond the usual runof-the-mill torture of flying on any airplane. In a letter to the editor, alert reader Douglas Mandel commiserated with me but pointed out that I was overlooking another kind of torture that is much, much worse.

New World Mix

Producer/engineer Richard Chycki shares the spatially motivated secrets behind his Dolby Atmos mix of Rush's sonically transitional 1982 album, Signals.

Hidden Bass

RENOWNED FOR their expertise in crafting high-performance subwoofers, SVS has carved a niche for itself within the home theater and music system communities.

Juke Audio Multiroom Streaming Amplifier

A Simple Streaming Solution

Bright and Bold

THIS IS the third edition of LG's Gallery Edition OLED, replacing last year's 65-inch, G2 (reviewed in the August/ September 2022 Sound & Vision and also at Sound & Vision.com).

AURAL EXCELLENCE

THE NEW Dymension DM70 Tower speaker is an evolution of a design that's signature Definitive Technology.

Visual Brilliance

IT IS amazing how rapidly TVs have grown in capability while their prices have dropped, defying inflation. I am very familiar with TCL's 6-Series and remember its first U.S. market iteration.

Ultra Short Throw Projectors

Ultra Short Throw (UST) projectors have steadily increased in performance while also massively decreasing in price. My first UST experience was a Sony model at CES several years ago selling for $20,000. Today you can get a UST projector with 4K HDR resolution and a laser-light engine rated for a 20,000-hour lifespan that is capable of producing 2500+ lumens for under $2500!

Netflix By Mail Ends Its 25-Year Run

Once as ubiquitous as a Blockbuster plastic bag, the Netflix envelope defined the era between video cassettes and streaming. Subscribers to the disc-by-mail service were informed in April that the company will ship its last disc on September 29, 2023. The announcement, coming 25 years after Netflix gave new life to First Class Mail, was seismic but not surprising.

Affordable Audio Bliss

AS A recording engineer, I've often pondered how soundbars could have become so popular, even though they typically sacrifice the sound quality and true stereo imaging attained by fullrange speakers.

Elton John – Farewell Yellow Brick Road

How do you close a 50+ year career in America, one that has brought music and magic to millions of fans and celebrate with them? Well, if you're Elton John, you return to the city where it all started-Los Angeles-and to one of the locations that symbolizes his incredible success: Dodger Stadium, where he famously played in 1975.

4K Laser for Less

Long Live Home Theater! That's the first thought that came to mind after I set up Sony's latest and most affordable native 4K projector.