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HiFiMan Refines its Top Headphone Models
SV Staff  |  Aug 02, 2016
HiFiMan has made styling and “mechanical enhancements” to its flagship HE1000 and Edition X headphones to improve sound quality, appearance, durability, and comfort.
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THX, HAA Create Elite Home Theater Training
SV Staff  |  Aug 02, 2016
THX has partnered with Home Acoustics Alliance (HAA) to create a new high-level home theater training intended to enhance the THX Certified Professional Training Program.

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Vava Unveils Voom 20 Outdoor Minispeaker
SV Staff  |  Aug 02, 2016
Vava today introduced the Voom 20 portable speaker featuring a water-resistant design, wireless aptX/Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity, and a battery life rated for 10 hours at 80 percent volume.
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New Puro Headphones Combat Hearing Loss
SV Staff  |  Aug 01, 2016
Puro Sound Labs has added a headphone and in-ear monitor to its “Audio Protection” (AP) line of headphones designed to combat hearing loss.
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Marantz Unveils 9.2-Channel Atmos/DTS:X Receiver
SV Staff  |  Aug 01, 2016
As a follow-up to the recently introduced SR5011 AV receiver, Marantz announced that the 9.2-channel SR6011 will be available in September.
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Game of Thrones Season 6 Now Available for Download in HD
SV Staff  |  Aug 01, 2016
Game of Thrones: The Complete Sixth Season is available for Digital HD download starting today, three-and-a-half months before the Blu-ray becomes available on November 15.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
Avi Greengart  |  Jul 29, 2016
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 2 is actually the fourth installment in the Hunger Games trilogy. Splitting the last book of a series into two movies can allow for complexity (i.e., Harry Potter), but here it should have been avoided. Part 1 is mostly filler, and even Part 2 has some pacing issues. If you’re new to The Hunger Games, start at the beginning. Of all the teenage dystopian movie series, this one is the best conceived: Underlying the action and drama, it’s a believable look at PTSD and the personal cost of brutal dictatorships. It also has, by far, the best acting.
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Concussion
David Vaughn  |  Jul 29, 2016
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Football Hall of Famer Mike Webster of the Pittsburg Steelers won four Super Bowl rings throughout his 17-year NFL career. He retired in 1990 and was enshrined seven years later, but his life would go downhill from there: Five years later, he was dead from a heart attack. The sad story would have stopped there if it weren’t for a junior pathologist in the Allegheny coroner’s office whose relentless search to know why led to the discovery of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. As more cases came to his attention, this Nigerian-born doctor took on one of the most powerful institutions in the world—the NFL.
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Editor's Eye
Image Is Everything
Rob Sabin  |  Jul 29, 2016
There aren’t too many to choose from, but bipole and dipole speakers are a special breed that I've long admired. Here's why.
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July 2016 Top Picks at a Glance
SV Staff  |  Jul 29, 2016
As you savor every moment of a summer in full swing and get ready to head out for the weekend, why not take a minute to scan our Top Picks for the month of July. More than one of ’em are road worthy. Like Optoma’s awesome micro projector that weighs less than a pound and fits in the palm of your hand or the sleek music player from Questyle that puts studio sound quality in your pocket or Mass Fidelity’s outstanding battery-powered Bluetooth speaker. Need a set of killer earphones? Check out the four-star-rated Cardas A8’s. And for when you’re back at home we offer up two very different yet very special tower speakers for your consideration—both guaranteed to bring pleasure with movies and music.
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