The fact that life can be unfair is hardly headline news. As the world has witnessed time and again—from Mozart to Billie Holiday, Van Gogh to Orson Welles, and more recently with our own friends ...

Room treatments are, in my experience, mixed bags. There is a thin line between damping resonances and overdamping the entire musical presentation. The trouble is that most traps and wall panels damp or diffuse more ...

The word “audiophile” has always struck me as one that carries two messages. One speaks of appreciation, connoisseurship, a passion for great sound and the equipment that delivers it, the closest thing indeed to the ...

The most unusual product I saw at the show was a near-field listening chair from a new company called i-Fi. The chair incorporates small minimonitors mounted on the chair, electronics to drive them, a subwoofer, ...

The star of this year’s CEDIA Expo was undoubtedly the VPL-VW50, the third generation of 1920x1080 SXRD front projectors from Sony. Listing for just half the price of the previous-generation VPL-VW100 (which garnered TPV’s Product ...

In an industrial park just outside Montreal, a company called D-BOX is adding an entirely new dimension to the home-theater experience. D-BOX has invented a technology that translates onscreen movement to motion in your viewing ...

It boggles the mind to consider how much of our hardearned cash is spent each year on ancillaries such as cables, power cords, conditioners, racks, stands, and all manner of tweaks and audio-related paraphernalia—without as ...