Aperion Aris bucks AirPlay, brings wireless music streaming to Windows

While most speaker companies have spent the last year climbing over each other to develop AirPlay-compatible wireless speakers, direct-to-consumer speaker merchant Aperion Audio has been quietly absent from the fray… →
Antelope Audio’s Rubicon might be the world’s most bad-ass pre-amp

The life of a high-end audio equipment manufacturer has got to be tough. Constantly reinventing the wheel to appease the insatiable palates of hard-core audiophiles is no easy task. At… →
Headphones for the 1 percent: Sennheiser’s ultra-premium IE 800 headphones and HDVD amp solidify snob status

If you read our headphone reviews, then you already know we've grown weary of what passes for a high-quality headphone these days. At the risk of sounding really stuck up,… →
LG’s 55-inch OLED arriving early for the Olympics

While we're generally reluctant to jump on the rumor mill bandwagon, this one is just too good to pass up. According to Maeil, a South Korean business publication, LG plans… →
Kindle Fire gets its own speaker dock

As tablets go, Amazon's Kindle Fire is, well...on fire. According to IDC analysis, Amazon managed to sell approximately 4.7 million of its new tablet in the last quarter of 2011… →
How we test receivers

Of all the A/V gear we test and review, none is as involved or time consuming as the A/V receiver. All those bells and whistles that get crammed into a… →
How we test speakers

Picking the right speaker can be tough. There are hundreds of brands -some of which you may never have heard of- and a vast array of sizes, styles and finishes… →
Atlantic Technology and Outlaw Audio debut new wireless audio solution

Our options for high quality wireless audio are getting better every day. Bluetooth has been around for a while now and the audio quality finally sounds decent, but it remains… →
Beats and HTC set to buy MOG music service

It would seem that Beats Electronics is doing just fine after its divorce with audio giant Monster (formerly Monster Cable) as it is apparently set to buy Internet streaming music… →
How we test iPod speaker docks

Make sure and check out our picks for the Best iPod and iPhone Speaker Docks. Just as it has become with headphones, managing a short list of potential iPod speaker docks… →
Pioneer takes the wraps off its 2012 A/V receiver line-up

It's my favorite time of year; not because St. Patrick's day gives me license to imbibe record quantities of Irish whiskey, not because store shelves are lined with candy and… →
How we test headphones

Our headphone evaluation begins the moment the product lands on our desk. We take note of the product’s packaging and presentation before diving into de-boxing it. Out of the box… →
Sony expands Google TV integration, resurrects the Walkman, issues new earphones and speakers

Sony's predictably large-scale press conference yielded a few surprises, though not the sort we were anticipating. New additions to the A/V category included the return of the Walkman, some balanced… →
Samsung unveils 55-inch OLED TV, gesture control camera at CES 2012

A few weeks ago, Samsung released a video indicating it would be introducing the next big thing in television. We just finished sitting through Samsung’s press conference where almost half… →