44+ min ago   (1008+ words) Bass shakers are one of home theater’s more entertaining blunt instruments. Attach a tactile transducer to a recliner or platform, feed it low-frequency information, and explosions, engines, dinosaurs, and spacecraft can suddenly be felt as much as heard. The problem…...

13+ hour, 14+ min ago   (1413+ words) Could your current 4K Blu-ray player support Dolby Vision 2? Dolby says yes, but Sony says its existing players won’t get updated. Dolby has confirmed that existing Ultra HD Blu-ray players can potentially work with Dolby Vision 2 without requiring an entirely new…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (980+ words) Major headphone brands disagree over 24-bit/192kHz lossless wireless audio as Apple, Android and codec compatibility complicate what comes next. What comes next is considerably less obvious. Some of the biggest names in premium headphones are not convinced that fully scalable,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1369+ words) Can LG Display make OLED TVs cheaper without sacrificing picture quality? Its new 2-stack WOLED panel promises wider color and lower power. LG Display has spent more than a decade adding emissive stacks to its OLED panels in search of…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1521+ words) The Astell&Kern SP4000T Copper adds a real copper chassis to its four tube flagship DAP, but does the new material improve anything beyond its finish? Astell&Kern has taken a flagship digital audio player with four vacuum tubes, 54 possible sound…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (612+ words) The 2026 Hisense UR9 series proves you don’t have to pay big bucks for a TV with RGB backlighting. Mini-LED TVs that use RGB backlighting are very much a new thing for most TV makers in 2026, but Hisense got an early jump…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (900+ words) Questyle designed the QCC Dongle Pro2 to bypass native Bluetooth codec limitations using an external plug-and-play transmitter. This allows owners of premium Bluetooth headphones to enjoy low-latency, high-resolution audio with PCs, the PS5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, and even wired hi-fi devices such…...

1+ mon, 8+ hour ago   (1546+ words) Two Google Home Speakers now create spatial TV sound with Google TV Streamer, but Google has not confirmed the $300 pairing as a Dolby Atmos system. Google’s new Home Speaker was already more interesting than the average $99 smart speaker because it…...

1+ mon, 13+ hour ago   (1621+ words) Jony Ive’s reported portable AI speaker may see, hear, remember and act for you. That could be genuinely useful and deeply unsettling. OpenAI did not agree to pay roughly $5 billion in stock for the remaining 77% of Jony Ive’s io Products…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (633+ words) For the G5 MAX, Edifier says HECATE and THX co-developed a customized version of THX Spatial Audio+ for headsets. The system uses real-time rendering and spatial positioning to process stereo and multi-channel signals, creating a wider and more dimensional sound field....