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Am I the only one who thinks newer generation Class D amplifiers are the best thing since sliced bread? They are small, efficient, affordable, and sound good to my ear. I also LOVE that you can now get multi-channel amp boards with built-in DSP for building speakers with active crossovers. I...

I have a problem. Well, my wife says I have a problem. That problem is a combination of gadgetitis and electronics hoarding. Let me explain. Remember that time Flint modded a pair of Insignia bookshelf speakers? I have them in my office with an old Energy subwoofer I bought in 1997 and a...

I wanted to put a music system in my office that was not connected to my computer. The main reason is that my Mackie CR3s are connected to my KVM switch and move back and forth between my PC and the company laptop. I don't want to stream music over the corporate network and re-wiring everything...

I wanted to get a pair of speakers for the master bedroom. At first, I was looking at great little speakers from Fluance and Audio Engine in the $300-500 price range. Then I realized something. These speakers will never be used for "serious" listening. They will play background music while we...

This is the most ridiculous piece of snake oil I've seen in awhile. https://www.tomshardware.com/amp/news/ethernet-switch-for-audiophiles

A little more than two years ago, I set out to create a home theater company focused on fully integrating home theater systems into beautiful cabinets that blend into the décor of any room. Flint worked more than a year designing a fully active speaker system built around WiSA certified plate...

If you sign up now, you can get HBO Max for $11.99/mo for twelve months, which is $3/mo off. The year starts when you sign off and you get access to HBO Now until HBO Max premiers on May 27.

I've been trying out Qello, which is a streaming service exclusively dedicated to concerts and music-related programming. Their catalog is quite deep. The question is whether I will watch enough concerts to justify $12/mo or $99/yr. I don't know how that will work out over the long haul, but I...

I bought a pair of Edifier R1700BT ($150) for my daughter for Christmas and a pair of R1280T ($99) for the master bathroom. While they are definitely not in the same class as AudioEngine A5s, they are both a hell of a lot of speaker for the money and I am both pleased and impressed with both...

We have a thread for great covers. Now it is time to pay homage to the truly bad ones. Here is one to get things started:

Over the last couple of years, I added bias lighting to three of my TV sets. The first two were done with MediaLight and the third with Luminoodle. This topic has come up on a couple other threads, so I thought I would give my thoughts on the pros and cons of these two products along with links...

I just ordered a Sanyo 4K Blu-Ray player from Amazon for $128. It is a very basic, stripped down player, but all I need is for it to play the occasional disc. I don't need it to stream or anything. Why this player? I needed something that would fit in a 14.5Wx12.25D cabinet and this was the...

As some of you know, I just bought a pair of quasi-outdoor speakers for my back porch from Flint. They were built to my budget and designed for my specific use case. I needed something that would sound great when played at lower volumes, but that could still be cranked up a bit for a party. I...

I just bought a TCL 65R614 TV for my family room and expect to get it on Thursday. Every review I've read ranks this as the best TV on the market for anywhere near its price point and the price recently dropped by more than $100. It will be interesting to see if it is as good as claimed, but I...

My wife and I have tickets to see The Struts, The Who, Peter Frampton and Heart this summer. Anyone else have concert plans?

Double-Blind Test Proves Importance of Power Cords "Recent experiments show that 100% of listeners were able to tell the difference between using an amplifier with a power cord attached, and without. The carefully screened and trained listeners described the power cords as “bringing sound to...

I spent many years acquiring much of my television content via a sophisticated, securely encrypted download system built around Usenet and then accessed said content via Plex. It was never about saving money and it never did. Between hardware costs, subscription costs (news servers and index...

I bought a pair of basic 24×48 acoustic panels from Amazon in a natural fiber fabric that reminds me of burlap. I choose than because they were affordable and because my daughter agreed to turn them into artwork. She settled on fabric markers, because paint required sealing the fabric, which...

My family room system provided some challenges from a usability and control perspective. The first problem was that my TV only has two HDMI inputs and my soundbar only has an optical input. This was an issue, because I want to connect a Roku, a ChromeCast, the 2nd Zone from my main system and...