Articles
-
Introducing RIVA S - The Fully Loaded Trillium Surround Sound Bluetooth Speaker
|LONDON, March 17, 2016: RIVA Audio, the lifestyle brand of Audio Design Experts, Inc. (ADX™), recognised for its best-in-class audio products, today announces the UK launch of its newest Bluetooth mobile speaker, the RIVA S. ...read more -
What's in the bag?
|In the run-up to the Bristol Sound & Vision show, I thought it would be a good idea to showcase precisely what equipment we might typically take to cover a show, and why. It also ...read more -
JSA Type 2 Passive Headphone Conditioner
|Vertex AQ, well-known purveyors of RF and microphony-busting devices to the discerning audiophile, doesn’t have quite the same traction in personal audio circles, but with the creation of its sister JSA brand, that looks set ...read more -
The Perfect Vision CEDIA 2012 Show Report - Part 3
|In search of new or recently released home theater audio components, I attended CEDIA Expo 2012, which was held in Indianapolis, IN from September 6-8, and will be preparing a multi-part show report. This is ...read more -
The Perfect Vision CEDIA 2012 Show Report - Part 2
|In search of new or recently released home theater audio components, I attended CEDIA Expo 2012, which was held in Indianapolis, IN from September 6-8, and will be preparing a multi-part show report. Note: To ...read more -
The Perfect Vision Guide to AVRs, Controllers & Amps
|DOWNLOAD NOW (PDF Version) (If you are having trouble downloading the PDF version of this Buyer's Guide please feel free to download the ZIP version located below) The Perfect Vision Guide to AVRs, Controllers & ...read more -
Anthony Gallo Acoustics Classico CL-3 5.1-Channel Speaker System (TPV 110)
|<font size="3"></font> In our sister publication The Absolute Sound, I recently wrote a favorable review of Gallo’s new Classico CL-3 floorstanding loudspeakers ($1595/pair)<font size="3">[1]</font>, which are among the first of a series of Gallo speakers ...read more -
The Perfect Vision Editor’s Choice: Home Theater Speaker Systems, Under $2500
|GREATEST VALUE: PSB Alpha Studio Theater System ($1256) For little more than the price of a Brand X home-theater-in-a-box rig of questionable provenance, PSB will sell you a legitimate, high performance 5.1-channel speaker system, which ...read more -
The Perfect Vision Editor’s Choice: Home Theater Speaker Systems, $2500-$4999
|GREATEST VALUE: Definitive Technology Bipolar BP-8040ST System ($2595) While the BP-8040ST is the next-to-the-smallest member of Definitive’s latest-generation bipolar speaker series, it serves as the centerpiece of an affordable surround sound system that produces a ...read more -
The Perfect Vision Editor’s Choice: Home Theater Speaker Systems, $5000 and up
|GREATEST VALUE: MartinLogan ElectroMotion ESL System ($5290) Though priced just a couple of hundred dollars above the lower limit for this class, you’d never know it from this system’s sophisticated sound. A true story will ...read more -
MartinLogan ElectroMotion ESL 5.1-Channel Speaker System (TPV 109)
|The name MartinLogan will forever be associated with high performance hybrid electrostatic loudspeakers, since this is the area where the firm has done most of its pioneering development work. But what we didn’t necessarily see ...read more -
Paradigm Monitor Series 7 5-Channel Speaker System (TPV 109)
|Paradigm offers multiple tiers of speaker products following a “good – better – best” strategy, with the good (Paradigm would say, “very good”) end of the spectrum represented by the firm’s newly updated Monitor Series ...read more -
Wharfedale Diamond 10 5.1-Channel Speaker System (TPV 109)
|Wharfedale’s long running Diamond series is a bit like the Volkswagen Beetle. After close to thirty years in production, it has taken on a kind of life of its own as a standard bearer for ...read more -
First Listen: Wharfedale Diamond 10 5.1-Channel Speaker System
|It’s been nearly 30 years since Wharfedale launched the original Diamond, a diminutive and unassuming bookshelf model that sold for well south of $200 a pair. Now over five million speakers later, the 10th generation ...read more -
Definitive Technology Bipolar BP-8040ST 5.1-Channel Speaker System (TPV 108)
|In pop psychology the term “bipolar” describes a personality disorder, but in loudspeakers it references a design format known to yield giant, spacious soundstages—one of the very qualities we like most about Definitive’s Bipolar BP-8040ST ...read more