Buying Your First HiFi

Indiana Lang

I want to show you a no-snake-oil approach to building an affordable, good sounding hi-fi system. When I was 16, I built the system shown below, with parts I bought off eBay and Audiogon. It cost less than $1000, but sounded better than anything you could...

Blogs & Little Things
The Huntsman: Winter’s War - Blu-Ray Movie Review

The Huntsman: Winter’s War – Blu-Ray Movie Review

Jim Milton

Before Snow White, there was The Huntsman: Winter’s War. Theron stars as evil Queen Ravenna, who betrays her good sister Freya (Blunt) with an unforgiveable act, freezing Freya's heart to love and unleashing in her an icy power she never knew she possessed. As war escalates between the two queens...

Movie Reviews
Trinnov Announces Support for Roon

Trinnov Announces Support for Roon

Secrets

Trinnov Audio, the leader in digital acoustics, is announcing their support for Roon music software, with availability expected in the first quarter of 2017. All existing Amethyst and Altitude32 preamplifier/processors can become Roon-Ready with a simple...

Press
Anthem MRX1120 Home Theater Receiver

Anthem MRX1120 Home Theater Receiver Preview

Carlo Lo Raso

Earlier this year at CES 2016, the fine folks at Anthem Electronics revealed their updated MRX receiver line. These new units featured Dolby Atmos and would be upgradable to DTS:X capability via firmware download. Having had an enjoyable experience when I reviewed their entry level MRX310 two years ago...

Product Previews
New Legacy Calibre Monitor

New Legacy Calibre Monitor

Secrets

Join Legacy in Evergreen Ballroom A at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest to hear the new Calibre monitor, a high resolution speaker that raises the performance bar for what a compact speaker can do. Calibre is designed to meet...

Press
GoldenEar SuperSub X Subwoofer Preview

GoldenEar SuperSub X Subwoofer Preview

Carlo Lo Raso

GoldenEar has been quite busy on the subwoofer front as of late. Using the same genetic Bouillabaisse that spawned the thoroughly enjoyable SuperSub XXL, GoldenEar has come back with an even smaller, yet still filling dish called the SuperSub X. This new sub looks...

Product Previews

Telluride 2016

Rick Schmidt

In the intro for the 2015 Telluride Film Festival I wrote about how Aretha Franklin was suing to stop the presentation of the performance-documentary “Amazing Grace”. I’m happy to cut and paste that information into this year’s intro. We were shocked to see that it was on the schedule...

Show Reports, Film Festivals and Concerts