Sound & Vision

If an audio product were perfect, it would have no sound of its own. It would be invisible. It would have no “voice.” In the real world, DACs, amplifiers, turntables, and especially the transducers—microphones, phono cartridges, and loudspeakers—all

FALL 2021 was a period of intense highs and lows for streaming giant Netflix. At one extreme, it scored an international hit with Squid Game, a Korean production that quickly became the service’s must-watch, most-watched show, drawing in over 111 mil

Any money I save by canceling Netflix will inevitably be diverted to Disney+, specifically so I can catch the new Peter Jackson documentary series The Beatles: Get Back. That much-loved band’s Let it Be, their post-breakup album, holds a special plac

EDITOR: Al Griffin SENIOR EDITOR, TECHNICAL EDITOR: Tom Norton EDITOR-AT-LARGE: Bob Ankosko CONTRIBUTING TECHNICAL EDITORS: Kris Deering, Barb Gonzalez, Michael P. Hamilton, Howard Kneller, Daniel Kumin, Rob Sabin, John Sciacca, Michael Trei, David V

I rarely have very much good to say about soundbars with DSP-based simulated surround. But the Denon Home Sound Bar 550 ($599) instantly impressed me by delivering convincing immersive sound. Add in the built-in HEOS multiroom platform, which lets yo

For the control settings used here go to soundandvision.com. The manual calibrations were made using Calman measurement software from Portrait Displays, together with X-Rite i1Pro3 Plus and Klein K-10A color meters and a Fresco Six-G test pattern gen

RATING UBR-X100 UBR-X200 IT’S NO secret that the Ultra HD Blu-ray disc player market has become a barren wasteland over the past few years. It seems like we’ve lost more players than we’ve gained, with little in the way of new models coming from manu

RATING NOW HEADQUARTERED IN London, English audio gear manufacturer Cambridge Audio was founded in 1968 in the university city of the same name. The company’s initial offering was the walnut-trimmed 20 watts-per-channel (Wpc) P40 integrated amplifier

RATINGS The Green Knight, director David Lowery’s film adaptation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, an anonymous 14th century poem, is a fantastical, visually intoxicating take on Arthurian legend. Following a night of drinking and carousing at the

RATING IF THERE were any doubts that we are well into the Age of Stream, the recent proliferation of “just add music” audio systems should lay them to rest. Whether toaster-sized Bluetooth portables or full floor-standing systems, wireless all-in-one

Discussing the merits of Bob Dylan’s ’80s output is a lightning rod for even his most ardent fans. Yet there are those who would agree a good portion of the first half of Dylan’s MTV Decade output ranks among his strongest mid-period songwriting effo

As required by Title 39, Section 3685 United States Code below is the Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation of Sound & Vision. 1. Publication Title: Sound & Vision 2. Publication Number: ISSN 1537-5838 3. Filing Date: 10/01/21 4. Issue

BY THE TIME November 1980’s Gaucho rolled around, Steely Dan were more than ready to close up shop and take a self-imposed two-decade hiatus. Indeed, Gaucho’s sparkly veneer was a fitting then-final coating on the acclaimed jazz-leaning but genre-def