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Cambridge Audio Announces Its Best-Ever Hi-Fi Series
SV Staff  |  Mar 27, 2018
U.K.’s Cambridge Audio is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a new high-end audio line that sets a “new standard for sound and design from the company.”
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LG Adds DTS Virtual:X Processing to New 4K TVs
SV Staff  |  Mar 27, 2018
DTS has announced that LG’s latest 4K/Ultra HD TVs will be the first TVs to integrate DTS Virtual:X audio processing, which delivers virtual height and surround sound without the need for additional speakers.
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LG Showcases 2018 OLED & Super UHD TVs
Tom Norton  |  Mar 26, 2018
LG held a product launch and reviewer workshop in Los Angeles last week, and I was there for the fun.
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CNN Expand News Coverage with Virtual Reality
SV Staff  |  Mar 26, 2018
CNN is aiming to take viewers to the front lines with the launch of CNNVR, the first virtual reality (VR) news app for the Oculus Rift VR headset.
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Moog Launches Minimoog Model D iOS App
SV Staff  |  Mar 26, 2018
Moog Music, creator of the iconic Moog synthesizer, today announced the launch of the Minimoog Model D iOS app for Apple devices.
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Blu-ray Movie ReviewsUltra HD Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Chris Chiarella  |  Mar 23, 2018
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It’s time to remind everyone what a big deal Terminator 2: Judgment Day still is. The action/adventure genre underwent a serious evolution in the ’80s, and by 1991, to be taken seriously, T2 had to be bigger and better than anything that had come before.

And it was.

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Dunkirk
Thomas J. Norton  |  Mar 23, 2018
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Less than three weeks after the Germans invaded France in May 1940, the British Expeditionary Force found themselves backed up against the English Channel. The evacuation that followed sought to rescue over 300,000 British and French troops using a combination of British warships and hundreds of “little boats.”
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Edifier’s New Speakers Break All the Rules
SV Staff  |  Mar 23, 2018
Edifier, a global supplier of speakers and headphones, has applied the high-style design of its Luna speaker to a six-piece home theater speaker combo with looks that kill.
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Audible Audiobooks Now Available on Sonos
SV Staff  |  Mar 23, 2018
Sonos has announced that audiobooks and other spoken-word programming from Audible is now available on its platform.
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Headphone Amp/DAC ReviewsPortable Player Reviews
iFi nano iDSD Black Label Amp/DAC Review
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 22, 2018

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PRICE $199

AT A GLANCE
Plus
Handles PCM, DSD, and MQA natively
Second iEMatch output for IEMs
USB or battery powered
Minus
No analog line input

THE VERDICT
This full-featured budget amp/DAC can get the best out of most headphones, especially in the all-important presence region.

If you’re looking for a USB amp/DAC to juice your headphones, you might assume that a couple hundred bucks would buy nothing more than a stick amp, one of those compact dongles that extends straight out from your computer’s USB port. We live in the golden age of the stick amp, and I’m sure not knocking ’em. But what if the same money can buy something with a little more real estate for circuitry and the always vital power supply, offering better than 96-kilohertz/24-bit resolution, DSD, MQA, and two headphone outputs with different gains, one for demanding ’phones and one for more efficient ones (including in-ear monitors, aka IEMs)? Of course, you must read on.

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