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Looking to start off the New Year for the Audio love with very little space to spare? Klipsch R-10B Soundbar follows-up the company’s HD Theater SB 3 soundbar system we reviewed a few years ago. The R-10B is part of their Reference line demonstrating how the classic speaker manufacturer is...

Hi Michael; Welcome to our forum. Don't waste your money on expensive/exotic cables and be very leery of the snake oil claims many manufacturers such as Audioquest make. It sounds like you already have good, low resistance speaker cables. Resistance is the most important metric with...

Marantz AV8802 11.2CH Preamp/Processor Preview Priced at $3,999, the Marantz AV8802 is a cutting edge 11.2 channel preamp/processor that's ready for Dolby Atmos and Auro-3D. A hardware upgrade to a full HDMI 2.0 / HDCP 2.2 implementation is also in the cards, meaning Marantz's new flagship...

If you're surround speakers are placed a few feet above ear level, you've already got elevated sound. Focus more on quality 5 or 7 speakers and dual subs for NOW with good amplification and TrueHD/DTS HD decoding. Atmos in the home is STILL based on TrueHD with added height channels. Unless...

2014 Audioholics Sound Bar Roundup There are many reasons you might want a sound bar: maybe you have no room for a conventional surround setup, or you just don't want to deal with a mess of wires. Whatever the reason, Audioholics is here to help you out. We've compiled a list of our favorite...

Of course if you design the amp to be fully differential from input to output, use the right amount of feedback, have a robust power supply, etc, you can lower both even and odd order distortions. The type of logic where one should deliberately make a certain type of distortion higher than...

Don't let a few trolls beat you down. It's not uncommon for people that think everything is so black and white are often not seeing the whole picture to come to such rash conclusions.

Having both Pass Labs X350.5 and Emotiva XPR-1 Amps side by side at my place doing listening tests and the most extensive bench tests done in our industry, I'd personally save my money and get the Emotiva's. Pass Lab is a fine amp but I prefer the less expensive, more powerful, less distorted...

Actually they are the Signature Line from Paradigm. Getting ready to install them and do a formal review.

Can you guys test on mobile portrait and landscape and let me know if it looks good? Google practice for mobile friendly is to dump the ads all the way to the bottom. Not too happy about that but readability is better on mobile for the new site b/c it's responsive. No need to zoom like the old...

If you have a small pair of bookshelf speakers lying around, you can use them as upfiring Atmos speakers. Simply place them on top of your front speakers firing up at the ceiling at a 20 deg angle by wedging a piece of rubber under them. See...

Is Auto Room EQ and Setup In A/V Receivers Useful? Since the dawn of the HiFi age, audiophiles have loved to tweak the sound of their audio systems. Some do it with cables, while others employ more aggressive measures like bass and treble controls. As time progressed, our technologies...

Meridian Audio MQA: High Resolution Streaming Of the Future? What if you could get high-bitrate, better than CD quality, HD Audio in a digital file size barely larger than a standard 16bit/44.1KHz FLAC, even when streaming or downloading? Meridian Audio, Ltd., the folks that brought us...

Guys; Let me know what you think. Check out the product review pages and note how we separated reviews/previews per request: audio.monkeytronics.com

You will see amp misbehavior with single tone tests as well. I've NEVER measured an amp that did better with multi-tone distortion than another amp but worse or even the same with single-tone distortion than the other amp.

That's a horrific measurement to be sure. You're paying for the 20 year warranty.

The Pass Labs amp I have in my possession does sound a bit different than say the Classe or Emotiva. To me it sounds a bit brighter in the top end. Also it runs out of gas a lot quicker than my less expensive Emotiva XPR-1. It's tragic that an $11k amp has a rather smallish power supply given...

Personally I'd rather pay 1/2 for the amp and get a standard 5 year warranty but that's why there are so many brands to chose from.

the principle is the same regardless of model #. It boggles my mind after all we've written about impedance switches that people are still considering to use the low setting :(