Sound & Vision

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Sonos always seems to be one step ahead of the competition, coming out with new products before people even realize they need them. That playbook hasn’t changed with Sonos Ray, a new budget-friendly soundbar small enough to fit on a shelf or under al

EISA, or the Expert Imaging and Sound Association, is an organization representing 60 of the most respected special interest publications and websites from 29 countries that cover Hi-Fi, Home Theater Video, Home Theater Audio, Photography, Mobile Dev

RATING PERFORMANCE FEATURES ERGONOMICS VALUE PIONEER’S VSX-LX505 Elite A/V receiver represents a new generation of feature-packed yet reasonably priced AVRs. It boasts up-to-date technology and enough channels to rock a full 5.1.4 Dolby Atmos or DTS:

PERFORMANCE FEATURES ERGONOMICS VALUE TRUE NATIVE 4K projectors have only been widely available—and reasonably affordable—for the past few years. Prior to that, most home projectors used a process called “pixel shifting” to produce 4K images: A 2K im

RATINGS System PERFORMANCE BUILD QUALITY VALUE I’VE REVIEWED many Monitor Audio speakers over the years. When I lived in California I reviewed the Silver 10s. Later, after I moved east, I bought a pair of the Silver 10s (actually three of them—long s

PERFORMANCE FEATURES ERGONOMICS VALUE HISENSE IS known by Sound & Vision cognoscenti as a brand taking ambitious steps to spotlight itself as an innovator in leading-edge television technologies with pricing it terms affordable. For those who do not

PERFORMANCE FEATURES ERGONOMICS VALUE FROM TIME to time I get to review an audio product that is so thoroughly engineered, so cutting-edge and so high performing that it leaves me in awe. And let’s be clear, after three decades of doing this, I’m not

PERFORMANCE BUILD QUALITY ERGONOMICS VALUE KEF’S LITTLE LSX II exudes quiet sophistication, which begs a question: Is it a lifestyle speaker or an audiophile speaker? It’s both, actually—and why not? The cantaloupe-sized wireless speaker is the Briti

It was clearly inevitable all four Beatles would pursue solo careers once The Fab Four officially called it quits in 1970. Under their own individual marquee names, each Beatle produced many a highprofile album—sometimes staggering, sometimes pedestr

To be played at maximum volume.” So went the listening instructions appearing in all caps near the bottom left of the back cover of David Bowie’s June 1972 career-defining dystopian spaceglam saga, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders