Revel is a speaker division of Harman International, the giant audio company with multiple brands, including such famous nameplates such as Mark Levinson, Harman Kardon, Lexicon, and Infinity. Revel started some years back with the high-line industrial-design Ultima speakers,which were not only very cool looking, but also critically acclaimed. It was a good way to start for a new company, and it soon added the more traditional-looking and relatively lower priced Performa line. ...
Tributaries is a well-respected cable company that has branched off
into electronics. TheTX500 represents a relatively straightforward
power conditioner/surge protector, but it is not really another “me
too” product....
When I opened my humble little retail store, The Audiophile, back in 1973, Denon was a small company just entering the country. Giants like Yamaha, Kenwood, Pioneer, Marantz, and others dominated the receiver market. But I was a tweak and always looking for something better. My lo-cal rep would drive up on his moped to Venice,California, ...
My contention has always been that the performance of a front projector is more important than how pretty it is. But for those who can’t consider ceiling mounts, there’s nothing at-tractive about a boring-looking box sitting smack-dab in the center of the living room. Of course, beauty don’t come cheap—but when I first heard that the 3-chip Infocus Play Big SP777cost $14K, I went “Whoa!” And when it showed up inside of a steamer trunk half the size of a refrigerator, I went “Whoa!” a...
For almost 60 years, McIntosh Audio Laboratory has been making high-end audio components. Their first products, vacuum tube amplifiers, were revolutionary designs that helped to solve a variety of the issues inherent to tube-based designs of the day. McIntosh had not only found a way to make tube amplifiers more powerful, but also more reliable. The stage was set, and a brand was born. ...
When I had written an article about my trip to tour the Philips television development area in Belgium, there were some interesting new technologies being developed to advance LCD displays. The new Philips 42-inch LCD, which I first saw in Belgium, is now in my hands for a review. ...
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Revel is a speaker division of Harman International, the giant audio company with multiple brands, including such famous nameplates such as Mark Levinson, Harman Kardon, Lexicon, and Infinity. Revel started some years back with the high-line industrial-design Ultima speakers,which were not only very cool looking, but also critically acclaimed. It was a good way to start for a new company, and it soon added the more traditional-looking and relatively lower priced Performa line. ...
Tributaries is a well-respected cable company that has branched off
into electronics. TheTX500 represents a relatively straightforward
power conditioner/surge protector, but it is not really another “me
too” product....
When I opened my humble little retail store, The Audiophile, back in 1973, Denon was a small company just entering the country. Giants like Yamaha, Kenwood, Pioneer, Marantz, and others dominated the receiver market. But I was a tweak and always looking for something better. My lo-cal rep would drive up on his moped to Venice,California, ...
My contention has always been that the performance of a front projector is more important than how pretty it is. But for those who can’t consider ceiling mounts, there’s nothing at-tractive about a boring-looking box sitting smack-dab in the center of the living room. Of course, beauty don’t come cheap—but when I first heard that the 3-chip Infocus Play Big SP777cost $14K, I went “Whoa!” And when it showed up inside of a steamer trunk half the size of a refrigerator, I went “Whoa!” a...
For almost 60 years, McIntosh Audio Laboratory has been making high-end audio components. Their first products, vacuum tube amplifiers, were revolutionary designs that helped to solve a variety of the issues inherent to tube-based designs of the day. McIntosh had not only found a way to make tube amplifiers more powerful, but also more reliable. The stage was set, and a brand was born. ...
When I had written an article about my trip to tour the Philips television development area in Belgium, there were some interesting new technologies being developed to advance LCD displays. The new Philips 42-inch LCD, which I first saw in Belgium, is now in my hands for a review. ...
