Seasons Greetings 2025!

Carlo Lo RasoDecember 23, 2025

Dear Secrets readers.    As we approach the holidays and prepare to spend time with our friends and loved ones, we here at SECRETS of Home Theater and High Fi...

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Diving Into Audiophile Tweaking

Jim ClementsOctober 30, 2025

I have become increasingly perplexed as to why audiophiles, more than any other hobbyists, tend to seek out non-scientific system tweaks...

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Why Custom Installers Should Consider BenQ’s W5800 Home Cinema Laser Projector

Chris EberleJune 26, 2025

I recently reviewed BenQ’s W5800 4K Laser Projector, and in this article, I’ll discuss why it is a serious contender for professional...

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My Go-To Power Amplifier When Compromise Is Not an Option

Craig ChaseApril 24, 2025

As I entered my fifth year as a staff writer at Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity, I realized that my experience at the oldest...

EditorialOpEd

Listening to a Kii Three BXT System: Sometimes it is Good to Meet your Heroes

Carlo Lo RasoApril 16, 2025

Living in a somewhat sleepy small town in the middle of Ohio, you don’t really think of it as being a bastion of high-end audio appreciation.

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Secrets Becomes a Member of EISA

Carlo Lo RasoApril 10, 2025

It is with great pleasure that SECRETS of Home Theater and High-Fidelity can announce that we have become an official member of the...

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Magnetic Lazarus, or “How I Learned to Love Cassette Tapes”

Peter Lo RasoApril 3, 2025

Horrible news for the old “Home Taping is Killing Music” crowd: home taping is back in style. While I’m just 23 and this concern was more...

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JJ’s 2024 End of Year Season’s Greeting

John E. Johnson, Jr.December 23, 2024

Thirty years ago, in 1994, I started a website called Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity. It cost me very little money to do it all.

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Where Do We Go From Here?

Carlo Lo RasoDecember 23, 2024

This has been an interesting year both for Secrets as a website and for the A/V industry whose products we cover.

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Happy Holidays 2024!

SecretsDecember 18, 2024

Thank You & Happy Holidays! From all of us at SECRETS of Home Theater and High Fidelity, thank you for being a part of our 30-year legacy.

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Staff Updates 2024

Carlo Lo RasoSeptember 26, 2024

The audio world is a constantly evolving genetic bouillabaisse of products, technology, marketing, and people. We here at SECRETS, having been around for 30 yea...

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Editorial: Finding Value.

Carlo Lo RasoMay 2, 2024

We all can appreciate it when we encounter a product that turns out to be much more than we initially thought. Oftentimes these can be...

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Seasons Greetings 2023 and Some Year End Musings.

Carlo Lo RasoDecember 18, 2023

It's that Time Again... Every year when our collective calendars get to the mid-December mark, I can’t help but marvel at how quickly the year has gone by. And...

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Focal Bathys Wireless Headphones: A Second Look.

Carlo Lo RasoNovember 7, 2023

Through a fistful of domestic flights, a couple of transatlantic trips, and a newly added app-administered hearing test feature, the outstanding Focal Bathys ANC headphones continue to prove their mettle as THE essential travel companion.

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Discovering Audio Art…in the Middle of Ohio?

Carlo Lo RasoSeptember 19, 2023

Living as I do about 30 miles east of Columbus puts me in about the dead center of Ohio, geographically speaking. Mostly what you will find out here, with a cur...

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