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Bang & Olufsen BeoSound 5 Review - With Video Modern Elegance When it comes to storage and playback of digital media, the options are seemingly endless. Portable or stationary? Touch-screen or scroll pad? (And would you like that in pink?) While many options are functional, few take form...

Bang & Olufsen BeoSound 5 Review - With Video Modern Elegance When it comes to storage and playback of digital media, the options are seemingly endless. Portable or stationary? Touch-screen or scroll pad? (And would you like that in pink?) While many options are functional, few take form...

Universal Remote Control MX-6000 Review The Dude Abides â€UeIf you will it, Dude, it is no dream.†Those are the words that pop into my brain the first time I fire up Universal Remote Control’s MX-6000 to test out the better part of a week’s worth of tinkering and programming. And...

Burmester 032 Integrated Amplifier and B25 Tower Speakers Review Truth and Soul I’ll never forget the very first time I heard a Burmester amplifier. It was 20-something years ago, and the rather svelte Burmester Model 878 was being compared with a muscle bound, high-end American amp. The...

Burmester 032 Integrated Amplifier and B25 Tower Speakers Review Truth and Soul I’ll never forget the very first time I heard a Burmester amplifier. It was 20-something years ago, and the rather svelte Burmester Model 878 was being compared with a muscle bound, high-end American amp. The...

Panasonic DMP-BD80K Review Blu-ray. Now with YouTube! Already, Blu-ray players are separating into two camps: the uber-expensive, and the commodity. It’s easy to see what you get with the step-up players. But what about the high end of the low end? What do you get at a step or so above...

Panasonic DMP-BD80K Review Blu-ray. Now with YouTube! Already, Blu-ray players are separating into two camps: the uber-expensive, and the commodity. It’s easy to see what you get with the step-up players. But what about the high end of the low end? What do you get at a step or so above...

Yamaha RX-V3900 Receiver Review One receiver to rule them all The consumer who is looking for one receiver to deliver stellar audio from their iPod and Internet radio stations, while also featuring HD radio need look no further. Yamaha has risen to the demanding challenge of designing one...

LG BD370 Review The next step in Internet-enabled video-on-demand. â€UeInternet-enabled†could very well be the CE industry’s 2009 catchphrase. Some manufacturers are adding simple Web widgets to their products, like the ability to access news, weather, or online photo albums. Others...

LG BD370 Review The next step in Internet-enabled video-on-demand. â€UeInternet-enabled†could very well be the CE industry’s 2009 catchphrase. Some manufacturers are adding simple Web widgets to their products, like the ability to access news, weather, or online photo albums. Others...

Simaudio MOON i3.3 Integrated Amplifier Review Ultimate Hybrid One of the fastest-growing product categories is high-end audio devices that decode digital audio from a computer or iPod. This amuses me, as for years many in the high-end audio realm thought of the iPod somewhere above the...

Simaudio MOON i3.3 Integrated Amplifier Review Ultimate Hybrid One of the fastest-growing product categories is high-end audio devices that decode digital audio from a computer or iPod. This amuses me, as for years many in the high-end audio realm thought of the iPod somewhere above the...

Krell Modulari Duo Speaker Review Masters of Reality Maybe it’s a leftover habit from my days as a high-end audio salesman, but I’m always on the lookout for great demo material. Funny, I never really thought about Prince’s Diamonds and Pearls CD that way before, but I’d never...

Sony VPL-VW70 Review The Sony VPL-VW70 does black, it does bright, it does color and above all, it does it quietly. I’m not sure how Sony does it, but it seems like with each new generation of projector, they somehow make them quieter. This is kind of like saying, walking barefoot on...

JVC DLA-HD750 Review The JVC DLA-HD750 takes the DNA from its excellent predecessors and somehow improves on them. Lets get this out of the way. There were only two things wrong with the predecessors of this projector: color and noise. That was pretty much it, and to be honest, they...

Panasonic TH-65VX100U Review Premiere Plasma Looking to carve out a piece out of the high-end custom market for themselves, Panasonic launched the Premiere line, with 50 and a 65-inch models. Sporting many custom features aimed at the custom market, does the Premiere have what it takes to...

Parasound P7 Review Who needs Digital? How's this for old school: the new Parasound P 7 has a grand total of zero HDMI inputs. None. Know how many optical inputs? None. The same with coax. No digital decoding, no digital-to-analog converters. If you're looking for any of that, may I...

Samsung LN46A950 Review Plasma Poseur Within minutes of setting up Samsung’s top-line 46†LCD HDTV (they also offer a 55†version), I knew that this was no ordinary LCD flat-panel, as the picture quality, with just a few picture control adjustments, looked startlingly un-LCD-like and...

Sony KDL-46XBR8 Review Using local dimming LEDs, Sony KDL-46XBR8 gives a run at the title of best flat-panel ever. But does it take the crown? The promise of local dimming LEDs is a simple one: significantly increase the contrast ratio of LCDs. Using said technology, this Sony KDL-46XBR8...

LG BD300 Review Blu-ray and… Netflix? Why would you want to download SD movies on your new Blu-ray player? That was my first thought when learning about the BD300 (and it's rival, the Samsung BD-P2500). Upon using it though, I get it. And it's really cool. read more

Sony VPL-VW70 Review The Sony VPL-VW70 does black, it does bright, it does color and above all, it does it quietly. I’m not sure how Sony does it, but it seems like with each new generation of projector, they somehow make them quieter. This is kind of like saying, walking barefoot on...

JVC DLA-HD750 Review The JVC DLA-HD750 takes the DNA from its excellent predecessors and somehow improves on them. Lets get this out of the way. There were only two things wrong with the predecessors of this projector: color and noise. That was pretty much it, and to be honest, they...

Panasonic TH-65VX100U Review Premiere Plasma Looking to carve out a piece out of the high-end custom market for themselves, Panasonic launched the Premiere line, with 50 and a 65-inch models. Sporting many custom features aimed at the custom market, does the Premiere have what it takes to...

Parasound P7 Review Who needs Digital? How's this for old school: the new Parasound P 7 has a grand total of zero HDMI inputs. None. Know how many optical inputs? None. The same with coax. No digital decoding, no digital-to-analog converters. If you're looking for any of that, may I...

Samsung LN46A950 Review Plasma Poseur Within minutes of setting up Samsung’s top-line 46†LCD HDTV (they also offer a 55†version), I knew that this was no ordinary LCD flat-panel, as the picture quality, with just a few picture control adjustments, looked startlingly un-LCD-like and...

Sony KDL-46XBR8 Review Using local dimming LEDs, Sony KDL-46XBR8 gives a run at the title of best flat-panel ever. But does it take the crown? The promise of local dimming LEDs is a simple one: significantly increase the contrast ratio of LCDs. Using said technology, this Sony KDL-46XBR8...

LG BD300 Review Blu-ray and… Netflix? Why would you want to download SD movies on your new Blu-ray player? That was my first thought when learning about the BD300 (and it's rival, the Samsung BD-P2500). Upon using it though, I get it. And it's really cool. read more

Acoustic Energy AE1 MkIII SE Review 1 of 100 In the first two sentences of Acoustic Energy's web page on the AE1 Mk III SE, the word "special" is used four times. Normally I would scoff at such repetition of an already over used word. In this case though, they don't seem to be resorting to...

Sunfire TGR-401 Theater Grand Receiver Review One Point Four Kilowatts An A/V receiver is arguably the most important component in a home theater system surpassed, only, perhaps by speakers. It has a big job: Take in all your sources, process them, and then the "little box that could" has...

TiVo HD XL DVR Review THX’d and Super-Sized Throwing down the HD DVR gauntlet, TiVo’s top HD XL model ups the storage ante by including a comparatively huge one terabyte hard drive, making the typical cable HD DVR’s 160 GB capacity look downright puny. The HD XL also provides an...