Kieran Coghlan

Monolith Encore Speaker System Review

The Monolith Encore speaker system from Monoprice is a high-quality entry-to-mid priced family of speakers for home theater and music. The new Encore family is comprised of the T6 tower, the B6 bookshelf, and the C6 center. Combined with one of Monolith’s epic subs like the THX Ultra certified M12 V2, Monoprice delivers a truly impressive high-value surround system.

BlueSound PULSE Soundbar & Subwoofer

BlueSound PULSE Soundbar & Subwoofer Review

The Bluesound PULSE Soundbar and Subwoofer are the latest products from the Lenbrook Group’s wireless speaker company. With much of our media consumption coming from streaming services, cloud storage, or our own local digital storage, wireless streaming speakers have become quite popular. Bluesound and competitors like Sonos seek to provide an ecosystem in your home for consuming media via their wireless amplified speakers.

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Bluesound PULSE Soundbar Preview

Bluesound, a division of the Lenbrook Group (who also own NAD and PSB), released their PULSE Soundbar last year, and recently announced a subwoofer designed to go with it. Their products all run wirelessly in conjunction with smartphone...

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Xiaomi Mi Box Review

The product category of “media player” continues to grow and cross over with media streamers and media servers. “Smart” apps, once the realm of “smart” TVs, are now the primary feature in media players, game consoles, HDTVs and almost every other device that connects to your home entertainment system.

Xiaomi Mi Box Preview

Xiaomi Mi Box Preview

As part of my ongoing search for the do-it-all media player box, I recently picked up a Xiaomi Mi Box Android TV. The tiny Mi Box runs Android TV, Google’s software answer to the likes...

DIY Media Server and DVR Review

Chris Eberle's most recent Technical Media Server review, he explained many of the options available today for media servers, streamers, and NAS systems, including the option to build your own "home-brew" media server. In the current article I'm going to go into the details of one such system – mine! In addition to being a full-blown media server, this system is also my HD-DVR, and it is pretty easy to set up and operate. Moreover, this system allows me to record most high definition shows from my cable subscription totally DRM-free. I've done all this without a single piece of hardware from my cable provider. Want to learn how I did it? Read on!