3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1147+ words) Big televisions have created a slightly ridiculous home theater problem. A 98-inch display can dominate an entire wall, while the conventional soundbar beneath it suddenly looks like somebody left a ruler on the furniture. Move toward proper architectural audio and…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1296+ words) Art TVs have spent years asking buyers to accept a peculiar bargain: your television can look like framed artwork when nobody is watching it, provided you are willing to surrender some picture quality when everyone sits down for movie night....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1500+ words) Televisions have become substantially larger over the past decade, but the audio systems sitting beneath them have not always kept pace. MartinLogan thinks there is another way. The new Motion Discrete Cinema Series consists of six passive loudspeakers designed specifically…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1182+ words) Magnetar describes ULTIMA as the world’s first luxury universal media transport with a battery-assisted DC power architecture, using dedicated lithium-based power stages to isolate critical processing and signal paths from electrical noise. Find out what eCoustics Editor-at-Large Chris Boylan had…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1346+ words) The result is a $28,000 network player/DAC weighing more than 61 pounds, with five independent linear power supplies, a fully discrete DAC architecture and optical network connectivity. Because apparently streaming music from Qobuz needed its own power station. The most significant…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1649+ words) Emotiva has spent more than two decades building its reputation around a fairly simple proposition: offer serious audio hardware without requiring customers to liquidate part of their retirement portfolio to pay for it. Both models will make their public debut…...