I love discovering new music. Well, music I’ve never heard before, that is. Take this recording by Max Roach, for example: a passionate, poignant and still amazingly fresh piece that surprises and inspires. I have never, ever, ever before seen in all my years of shopping a copy of We Insist!, the 1960 Candid Records release by the more »

I’ll admit it: I’ve always sort of viewed the D-Box motion system as an experience very much akin to 3D. That probably comes across as harsher than I intend for it to, if you’re familiar at all with my outright hostility toward 3D movies, but it isn’t intended as such. I’ll confess to having been more »

Wren Sound Systems has been turning heads with its Wren V5AP AirPlay Speaker for a while now, providing iOS users with a gorgeous retro-looking wireless speaker packed with Apple streaming tech. But what about the Android fans in the audience? Especially those with a penchant for high-end audio who are tired of being treated like second class citizens more »

I think it’s safe to say that most of us had a grandmother or aunt whose home practically revolved around the piano.  For the most part, it was probably the traditional, upright style, with that traditional, upright sound.  It was also a sign of wealth and the nemesis of kids everywhere.  But most pianists also more »

Many early rock and pop recordings were designed for listening on vinyl long-playing records in mono, especially those made by legendary producer and hit maker Phil Spector. Here we take a look at some of the great reissues from Sundazed Records, who have resurrected four previously hard-to-find classics in a form that arguably surpass the more »

3D Printing has come a long way in the past few years, what with 3D printed guns causing a big brouhaha, 3D printed food becoming an actual thing, and 3D printers for the home become more and more affordable and attainable every day. That’s in the home, mind you. But what about 3D printing an more »

Colleague Jeff O’Heir has an interesting new editorial up at Dealerscope, in which he analyses and opines on how a different distribution and retail model, and a bit of education,  could make all the difference in ensuring that 4K “Ultra HD” sets succeed in the market where 3D failed: The launch of 4K UHD TVs more »

When I wrote about the Wireless Speaker and Audio (WiSA) Association at last year’s CEDIA Expo, I said, “The goal here isn’t just to make wireless speaker transmission and setup to work well; the eventual goal is to have their broad-reaching wireless audio standard embedded in a whole host of consumer electronics devices, from TVs more »

Soundcast Systems has been making big waves in the outdoor audio department for a while now with its Outcast and Outcast Jr. weather-resistant wireless speaker. If the Outcast (and it’s little offspring) has one flaw, though, it’s a slight lack of portability. You might bring one with you on vacation, but chances are, wherever it more »

When Bruce Bridgeman, a professor at the University of California, saw Martin Scorsese’s Hugo in 3D, it was revelatory in more ways than one. A lifelong sufferer of eyes that don’t just quite align, he found that not only did the film come into stereoscopic “focus” for him in a way that the real world more »