Pioneer’s HTZ-BD32 is one of the many, many Home Theater in a Box (HTiB) systems on the market.  It has the usual specs you’d expect, including a built-in 3D Blu-ray player, 5.1-channel surround sound, Wi-Fi, and a handful of additional inputs for your set-top box and other items.  The BD32 also includes an iPod/iPhone dock more »

There’s great news for those with the pocketbooks to support a Meridian habit.  Meridian Audio has released its Core Control app for iPad devices.  The app, designed to control the company’s variety of Digital Media Systems (which seemingly, inexplicably, seem to have dropped the Sooloos name), follows in the navigation footsteps of the Control 15 by more »

Without a doubt, there is a lot to love about Sonos’ incredibly innovative audio distribution system. Sonos definitely turned the traditional rack-filled-with-stacks-of-black-boxes and single-point control location on its head with its system that is wireless and decentralized. It’s one of those systems that, as you start describing it to people, and telling them all the more »

Quick: Name a luxury automobile. Maybe you thought of Bentley, or Rolls Royce, or something sportier like Aston Martin or Ferrari. Now, name a high-end watch. You probably thought of Rolex or maybe Breitling or Patek Philippe or Cartier. How about a luxury kitchen appliance? There’s Viking, Sub-Zero, Thermador, or Wolf… Maybe even a high-end more »

File this one under “I didn’t see that coming!” Samsung has announced new lines of Home Theater Systems and combination Galaxy S/iOS integrated audio docks set to debut at CES, and although the latter is certainly interesting in and of itself, the most intriguing revelation is the presence of vacuum tube technology in two of more »

I am fascinated with product placements in movies. Seriously. I live for those subtle things that so many other people just gloss over. Like the brand of watch that a character is wearing, or the bottle of wine on the table or perhaps the pen they use to sign a contract. Someone went to the more »

Lest anyone should forget, the one of the principal points of the CEDIA (Custom Electroncis Design, Installation Association) Expo is to show off all the latest and greatest products that are to be found in the wonderful world of custom installation. So, I thought I’d break my show recap into a couple of obvious segments more »

My last unboxing post — the Meridian DSP3200 speakers and Sooloos Media Core 200 –was so unexpectedly popular that I decided that the obvious thing was to do another! Now, I could lie to you and tell you that tons of people who had been Google searching the Web fruitlessly looking to fulfill an unquenchable more »

One of the constant questions that I face as a custom installer — beyond, of course, the “Can’t I just do something wireless?” and “What do you mean ‘it’s my cable box’?” and “You’re gonna charge me for that?” and “will you match the price I found at not_authorized.com and still give me your great more »

The Internet is home to all manner of bizarre fetish subset groups. You like to see midgets swinging from a trapeze while smoking French cigarettes? Great. You just need to decide if you’re in the mood for your midgets to be with or without full body tattoos and piercings. Or perhaps you prefer to watch more »