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Headphone Reviews
Audeze iSine 10 Headphones
Steve Guttenberg  |  Apr 11, 2017

Performance
Build Quality
Comfort
Value
PRICE $399

AT A GLANCE
Plus
High-resolution sound
Planar magnetic drivers
Comes with Apple Lightning and standard cables
Minus
Little or no isolation from external noise

THE VERDICT
The Audeze iSine 10’s sound crushes the competition—it’s more dynamically alive, more spacious, and more transparent than any other in-ear headphone I’ve heard so far.

With the iSine 10, Audeze completely reinvented the in-ear headphone. I’m not exaggerating. While every other in-ear headphone uses dynamic or balanced armature drivers, the iSine 10 has planar magnetic drivers, the same thin-film driver technology Audeze uses with all of their on-, and very high-end over-the-ear headphones. The driver isn’t the only unique design feature, though. The iSine 10’s wild-looking earpieces are a good deal larger and designed in a completely different way than any other in-ear on the market.

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Audio Video News
Zvox Aids Hearing Impaired with Advanced Soundbar
SV Staff  |  Apr 11, 2017
Zvox has introduced an advanced version of its popular AccuVoice TV Speaker that uses patent-pending algorithms to “lift dialogue out of a soundtrack” so it’s easier to understand.
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Audio Video News
PowerDVD Player Now Supports 4K Blu-ray with HDR
SV Staff  |  Apr 11, 2017
Taiwan-based CyberLink today released the latest version of its popular PowerDVD movie and media player for Windows PCs.
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Signals
Big Data and You: The Analytics of Amazon's Alexa
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Apr 11, 2017
Once upon a time, the trajectory of a piece of consumer electronics was arbitrarily ballistic. Much like a cannonball that leaves the muzzle, flies through the air, and lands, a product was manufactured, sold to a consumer, and dumbly performed its appointed functions. Now, and particularly with products like Alexa, when a consumer product enters a home. it's more like adopting a pet, or more accurately, like taking in a puppy that has a doctorate in statistics.

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Audio Video NewsNew Products
House of Marley Unveils 'Eco-Conscious' Turntable
SV Staff  |  Apr 11, 2017
House of Marley, the company co-founded by the son of the late reggae icon Bob Marley, today announced its entry into the turntable market with the “eco-conscious” Stir It Up record player featuring a bamboo plinth, slip mat made of recycled silicone rubber, and fabric dust cover made from “up-cycled” hemp, cotton, and recycled plastic bottles.
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Audio Video News
62-Year-Old Retailer hhgregg Is Latest Retail Casualty
SV Staff  |  Apr 10, 2017
Indianapolis-based electronics/appliance retailer hhgregg announced on Friday that it will close its doors by early June, making it the latest brick-and-mortar retail casualty.
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Audio Video NewsNew Products
Epson Announces ‘Ultra-Bright’ Portable Projector
SV Staff  |  Apr 10, 2017
Epson says its new portable 1080p LCD projector is up to three times brighter than competitive models, making it suitable for watching movies and sports or playing video games in a large room with the lights on.
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Ears On
WNEW-FM and the Golden Age of Streaming
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 10, 2017
Back when I was a kid, music streaming was awesome. The music of that era—I'm talking about the late 1960s to the mid '70s—was so good, it would eventually become known as classic rock. The streams were in high-quality analog sound, spun from actual LPs. And there were no monthly fees—all streaming was free!

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Audio Video News
The Young Pope Available for Download Today
SV Staff  |  Apr 10, 2017
Season 1 of the HBO limited series The Young Pope, starring Jude Law and Diane Keaton, is available for download today, with Blu-ray and DVD releases to follow June 6.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Phantasm: Ravager
Brandon A. DuHamel  |  Apr 07, 2017
Picture
Sound
Extras
Thirty-seven years after the horror franchise Phantasm debuted, director Don Coscarelli passes the directorial reins to David Hartman for what is being billed as the final installment in the popular mind-twisting series. Although there isn’t much left here for fans of the original to really cling to, there is a sense of the series getting back to its roots. Actor Reggie Bannister returns as Reggie, and other series regulars A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, and Kathy Lester also return for a tale that brings the story right into the core of the Tall Man’s (Angus Scrimm reprising his role) home world.
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