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Home Theater Geeks Podcast
Podcast 103: Bob Schulein
Scott Wilkinson  |  Mar 20, 2012
Audio-product designer Bob Schulein talks about his long and distinguished career, including microphone design and his pioneering work on multichannel matrix encoding and decoding for broadcast and music recordings. He also explains his current project called ImmersAV, in which he shoots high-def video and records binaural audio to create a more immersive A/V experience. In addition, he discusses his extensive headphone measurements and how they relate to perceived sound quality, answers chat-room questions, and more.

Run Time: 1:05:46

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Headphone Amp/DAC Reviews
Tech Trends 2012: Siri-ously Kinect-ed
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Mar 20, 2012

While the hype at CES this year was all about OLED, 4K, and bigger TVs, a quiet revolution began in the interaction department. LG and Samsung both announced new ways to control TVs using facial and speech recognition, or even just a wave of your hand.

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Blu-ray Movie ReviewsMusic Reviews
This Week in Blu-rays and Music, March 20, 2012
Ken Korman  |  Mar 20, 2012

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Projector Reviews
Mitsubishi HC4000 DLP Projector
Scott Wilkinson  |  Mar 20, 2012
Performance
Features
Ergonomics
Value
Price: $1,495 At A Glance: Many advanced features • Superb detail and color • Deepest blacks we've seen at this price level • Poor shadow detail

A front-projection system is usually the display of choice for serious home-theater enthusiasts. But such systems are more expensive than most flat panels and rear-projection TVs, especially when you consider the cost of a good screen. So finding a low-cost projector that performs well is the Holy Grail for those who want a true home cinema without breaking the bank.

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3D Projector ReviewsProjector Reviews
Test Report: Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 5010 3D Projector
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Mar 19, 2012

This is my second time writing this review. I don’t mean that I tweaked and changed it a lot and that this is a second draft. I mean I had to completely rewrite it. No computer error: I simply found something so bizarre, so transformative about Epson’s Home Cinema 5010 projector that it radically changed my opinion of it. So much so that I had to start over completely.

And I almost missed it.

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Other Tech
Tech Trends 2012: The TV Report
Al Griffin  |  Mar 19, 2012

INEVITABLY, WHEN something cool comes out, it will influence everything that immediately follows. That’s what happened with Avatar. In 2009, we all went to see it in 3D, and the following year stores were packed with 3D TVs and 3D Blu-ray players.

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Audio Video News
A Million Miles Away: Billy Altman's SXSW 2012 Diary Wrap-up
Billy Altman  |  Mar 19, 2012

Combine a spring break weekend, a St. Patrick's Day celebration, and the final day of a South by Southwest music festival and you can imagine the insanity reigning supreme all over downtown Austin on Saturday.

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SmartStream
Walmart Disc-to-Digital Service Available Via Vudu
Barb Gonzalez  |  Mar 19, 2012
Physical DVD and Blu-ray collections may soon be a thing of the past—the trend is clearly toward streaming movies from online sources. Walmart and the Hollywood movie studios know this, and they've responded by announcing the Walmart "Disc-to-Digital" service. I've been focusing on streaming media for a number of years, and I'm extremely excited about this forward movement by retailers and Hollywood movie studios.
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Ask S&V
Separate vs. Integrated Subwoofers
Scott Wilkinson  |  Mar 19, 2012
I have a couple of questions:

1. Should a home-theater speaker system have separate subwoofers instead of subwoofers in the main front towers?

2. Should an amplifier's power-output rating match the power-handing rating of a speaker system?

Bob Spencer

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Tech2
Mark Levinson on Daniel Hertz: One More Time
Brent Butterworth  |  Mar 18, 2012

The name Mark Levinson is familiar even to those who couldn’t care less about audio. It’s been mentioned in numerous Lexus commercials, because Mark Levinson audio systems are an option in the higher-end models. Audio enthusiasts know Levinson as the founder of the company that still bears his name, and that 40 years later still makes some of world’s finest audio electronics, although under different ownership.

Levinson has been a prominent figure in the audio biz since 1972, but he’s been fairly low-key for the last 10 years. Now he’s coming back with what he says will be his last audio company and his last audio system. A couple of weeks ago, I got to be one of the first in the U.S. to give it a lengthy audition.

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