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 »

Update: The app is now available. See below. When I first wrote about the inclusion of the DTS Headphone:X version of Hans Zimmer’s  Man of Steel soundtrack, which comes with the , details were a little thin on the ground about exactly how the download process would work. Would the Headphone: X version be delivered as pre-encoded more »

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 »

Hopefully this post’s title grabbed your attention, because the press release sure grabbed mine.  A new Finnish speaker compnay, Unmonday, has unveiled one of the most unusual audio products I have ever seen. The Unmonday 4.3L is, at its core, an Airplay enabled speaker.  Where things get wonky is when you start to look at more »

Kids today. They used to ask for stereos for their birthday so they could spin the latest hits to annoy their parents. Today they just ask for an iPod and use the headphones to tune said parents out. That is, except when it comes to gaming, where 5.1 is a must-have for the hardcore gamer, more »

Help Wanted: Reviewer, Consumer Electronics. Run. Run far away from that job posting. Sure, a reviewer gets to test drive cool gear for free, and every once in a while it’s love at first sight (or first listen). When a reviewer and a product hit it off, the words just flow–what a joy, then, to more »

Okay, I know we’ve sung this song before, but the 3D versions of Anthem’s D2v and AVM 50v — which were supposed to start shipping in Q1, are now available. Like, actually and for truly, you can buy them now! Final pricing turns out to be a little higher than originally reported: the D2v in more »

If you’re looking for more oomph than yesterday’s Klipsch offer, or are upgrading that 5.1 to a 7.1 system, you could do worse than these Monitor30 IIs from Polk. I used their predecessors for years as my surrounds, and still use them for my rears — and they sound great. Sold as a pair, setup more »

The Klipsch Quintet system normally will run you six-hundred smackeroos, but not today. Today only you can score 5 points of audio (no subwoofer), but for $199, who can complain? Specifications: Speaker Type: Satellite Depth: 3.75 inches Driver Configuration: 75″ Aluminum XT Micro-Tractrix Horn tweeter: 3.5″ IM Polymer Woofer Frequency Response Curve: 120-23,000 Audio Sensitivity: more »

URC has introduced a unique product to its Total Control whole-house control system: the DMS-AV Networked Home Theater Amplifier.  Designed from the ground up to be part of the URC’s Total Control system, the DMS-AV gives installers the ability to seamlessly integrate a home theater amplifier into a whole-house system.  Cat Tooney, director of marketing for more »

That kooky-looking apparatus in the image above is actually one of the coolest audio devices I’ve read about in some time. It’s called the RS5 underwater surround rig, and it’s made by Ambient Recording, a German company that specializes in location sound recording. And a new documentary called Sounds of the Ocean (check out the more »

Onkyo is expanding its lineup of Home Theater Systems with two new models: the HT-S6500 and the HT-S7500. Both systems feature InstaPrevue, the new source-selection technology that offers on-screen viewing content available on each HDMI input. The S6500 and S7500 also include Marvel Qdeo video processing to upscale low-resolution content to 1080p and to 4K on new more »