Jim Milton

Paradigm Monitor SE 5.0 Speaker Review

Jim MiltonJuly 30, 2018

Paradigm has designed the Monitor SE Speaker Series to bring their signature sound quality to the budget-minded audio enthusiast. Much of the technology that goes into their high-end Persona series has trickled down into the Monitor SEs, such as the X-PAL™ Pure-Aluminum Dome Tweeters with exclusive Perforated Phase-Aligning (PPA™) Lens.

Surround Sound Speaker Systems

The Matrix – 4K UHD Blu-ray Movie Review

Jim MiltonJuly 25, 2018

We think our day to day life is reality, but what if life as we know it is a hoax? What if reality is a deception spun by all-powerful machines and AI that control us?

Movie Reviews

Forrest Gump – 4K UHD Blu-ray Movie Review

Jim MiltonJuly 17, 2018

Tom Hanks gives an astonishing performance as Forrest, an everyman whose simple innocence comes to embody a generation.

Movie Reviews

Annihilation – 4K UHD Blu-ray Movie Review

Jim MiltonJuly 3, 2018

Biologist and former soldier Lena (Natalie Portman) is shocked when her missing husband (Oscar Isaac) comes home near death from a top-secret mission into The Shimmer, a mysterious quarantine zone no one has ever returned from.

Movie Reviews

Braveheart – 4K UHD Blu-ray Movie Review

Jim MiltonJune 20, 2018

This is the story of the legendary thirteenth century Scottish hero named William Wallace (Gibson). Wallace rallies the Scottish against the English monarch and Edward I after he suffers a personal tragedy by English soldiers.

Movie Reviews

Gladiator – 4K UHD Blu-ray Review

Jim MiltonJune 13, 2018

Featuring the theatrical and extended edition, this Academy Award winning film depicts the story of a brave general, Maximus Decimus Meridius, who was forced into slavery, emerged as a gladiator and defied the Roman empire.

Movie Reviews

Saving Private Ryan – 4K UHD Blu-ray Movie Review

Jim MiltonMay 24, 2018

Seen through the eyes of a squad of U.S. soldiers, the story begins with World War II's historic D- Day invasion, then moves beyond the beach as the men embark on a dangerous special mission.

Movie Reviews

Grease – 4k UHD Blu-ray Movie Review

Jim MiltonMay 22, 2018

Rydell High's most famous graduating class is going back to school. A newly restored print brings the highest-grossing musical of all time, "Grease" (1978), to the big screen as a sing-along.

Movie Reviews

Paradigm Monitor SE Home Theater Speakers

Paradigm Monitor SE Home Theater Speaker Preview

Jim MiltonMay 15, 2018

Paradigm has just released a new speaker line that contains some trickle-down technology from their award-winning products but are inexpensive enough to attract brand new home theater enthusiasts.

Product Previews

Meridian Reference Two Channel Power Amplifier 857 Review

Jim MiltonMay 15, 2018

The Meridian Reference Two Channel Power Amplifier 857 is an expression of power and design that embodies the company’s philosophy. In short, it is their statement amplifier. With a reputation for quality, and leading the vanguard for what state-of-the-art is in the audio world, the Meridian 857 is both pure and powerful.

Amplifier ReviewsReviews

Downsizing – 4K UHD Blu-ray Movie Review

Jim MiltonMay 8, 2018

Downsizing imagines what might happen if, as a solution to over-population, Norwegian scientists discover how to shrink humans to five inches tall and propose a 200-year global transition from big to small.

Movie Reviews

Audio Research VSi75 Integrated Amplifier Review

Jim MiltonMay 7, 2018

Audio Research Corporation has been making tube amplifiers since 1970, when they were founded. Putting that into perspective, I was an eighth grader when this Minnesota-based company started shipping its products.

Integrated Amplifiers

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life 4K UHD – Blu-ray Movie Review

Jim MiltonApril 18, 2018

She is back…and on the most perilous mission yet to retrieve the ancient relic; Pandora’s Box. She must travel from Greece to Hong Kong in order to keep a maniacal scientist (Hinds) from releasing all of the evil inside the artifact and destroy mankind.

Movie Reviews

Lara Croft- Tomb Raider 4k UHD – Blu-ray Movie Review

Jim MiltonApril 10, 2018

Video game heroine Lara Croft (Jolie) is out to stop a villain from getting ahold of the ancient Triangle of Light, which allows the possessor to control time and space.

Movie Reviews

Daddy’s Home 2- 4K UHD Blu-ray Movie Review

Jim MiltonMarch 28, 2018

If you liked the first film, this one builds upon it with even more laughs as we find that having finally gotten used to each other's existence, Brad and Dusty (Wahlberg and Ferrell) must now deal with their intrusive fathers (Gibson and Lithgow) during the holidays.

Movie Reviews

Jim Milton

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Jim Milton has been interested in high fidelity since his college years in the late 70's. It was there that he first became interested in classical music. He has been part of choral music, both in opera and oratorio and is an avid collector of classical music from the Baroque through the Romantic periods. He enjoys an occasional night at Boston Symphony Hall or attending an organ concert at Merrill Auditorium in Portland, ME. Currently he is the director of Nuclear Medicine at the North Shore Medical Center, located just outside of Boston. He also serves as an adjunct professor for Salem State University where he teaches a course in nuclear instrumentation. During his leisure time, he enjoys listening to his music collection and an occasional movie with his wife of 30+ years. Living on the longest stretch of sandy beach north of Boston offers him plenty of opportunities to take a relaxing stroll or soak up some sun. "Remember, acquiring good A/V gear takes lots of time...but doesn't necessarily take lots of money."

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