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Audio Advice Live 2025
Focal Diva Mezza Utopia Speaker System Demoed at Audio Advice Live
Mark Henninger  |  Aug 11, 2025

One of the show’s headline demos was Focal’s Diva Mezza Utopia, the larger, more powerful sibling to Diva Utopia. Launched July 2025 at $69,000/pair, it is sold exclusively through the Focal Powered by Naim dealer network (Audio Advice included). Focal positions Mezza as “the new hi-fi”: an ultra-connected, all-in-one, high-end system designed to deliver a full-range experience without the usual rack of separates.

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Audio Advice Live 2025
Lyngdorf Audio TDAI-2210: North American Debut at Audio Advice Live
Mark Henninger  |  Aug 11, 2025
Lyngdorf Audio introduced the TDAI-2210 integrated streaming amplifier at Audio Advice Live 2025 in Raleigh, NC, the next generation in the company’s True Digital Amplifier line. Rated at 2 × 210W into 4 ohms, the TDAI-2210 keeps the signal in the digital domain and incorporates RoomPerfect room correction.
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Audio Advice Live 2025
madVR Labs Previews Dynamic Subtitle Overlay at Audio Advice Live 2025
Mark Henninger  |  Aug 09, 2025
New firmware moves subtitles into the image, moderates their brightness, and adapts color to the scene—aimed at preserving immersion on scope screens without the resizing used by conventional subtitle fixes.
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Audio Advice Live 2025
Marantz’s Grand Horizon Aims to Marry Hi‑Fi Sound with Living‑Room Design
Mark Henninger  |  Aug 09, 2025
At Audio Advice Live 2025, Masimo Consumer’s Phil Jones described Marantz’s new Grand Horizon as “musical art”—a single‑chassis, luxury wireless speaker built to deliver hi‑fi scale without the usual stack of black boxes. The target owner is clear: someone who wants serious sound and a statement object that can live in plain sight.
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New Products
Audio Advice Debuts Revelation Luxury Home Theater Chair
Mark Henninger  |  Aug 08, 2025

At Audio Advice Live 2025, North Carolina–based retailer Audio Advice showed the latest addition to its house-brand seating line: the Revelation Luxury theater chair. It follows earlier “Revolution” and “Revelation” models and adds heating, massage, and other usability tweaks aimed at feature-hungry buyers at a mid-tier price. According to Audio Advice, the Revelation Luxury is designed to deliver the feature set found in higher-priced home-theater recliners at a lower cost.

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Subwoofer Reviews
SVS SB-5000 Subwoofer Review
Jim Wilson  |  Aug 05, 2025

Performance
Features
Build Quality
Value
PRICE: Gloss black $2,099, Black ash veneer $1,999

AT A GLANCE
Plus
Decor friendly size
Near automotive-quality black paint
App offers a lot of customization
SVS's exclusive Bill of Rights

Minus
On the high end of the price spectrum for its class
Amp tends to get warm when pushed hard
Auto Room Equalization feature still not available

THE VERDICT
Like the other subwoofers in SVS's R|Evolution series, the SB-5000 is a marvelous combination of technology and features. With great sound, impeccable protection mechanisms, a comprehensive app and the company's peerless Bill of Rights, it checks all the boxes.

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Ultra HD Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Best of the Sets, Summer Edition
Chris Chiarella  |  Aug 04, 2025

Any fireworks left over? Whatever the theme—a movie star, a character, a single title or an entire genre—collections like these are a celebration of film and music, catering to a wide variety of tastes. With painstaking restorations, remixes, remasters and rediscoveries on 4K, Blu-ray, CD and delicious vinyl, this sweet summer crop has been fresh-picked for our enjoyment, many with new supplements that only deepen our appreciation.

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Music Reviews
Talking Heads: More Songs About Buildings and Food 3CD & 1BD Box Set
Mike Mettler  |  Jul 31, 2025

Take me to the river, and drop me in the Atmos. In other words, Talking Heads’ second studio album on Sire, July 1978’s More Songs About Buildings and Food, just received some quite-fulfilling Super Deluxe Edition love from Sire/Rhino just a few days ago on July 25, 2025, and in multiple formats. Read Mike Mettler’s in-depth review of the 3CD/1BD version of Food to see how the new Atmos mix of the core album enhances this key early entry in the Heads’ most formidable catalog. . .

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Audio Video NewsNew Products
Epson Announces Pro Cinema LS9000 Laser Projector
Mark Henninger  |  Jul 31, 2025
At the Audio Advice Live show taking place this weekend in Raleigh, NC, Epson will introduce the Pro Cinema LS9000, a 4K HDR laser projector aimed at the custom integration market. Priced at $3,999, the LS9000 joins the company’s Pro Cinema lineup with a spec sheet that includes 4K UHD resolution, HDR10+ support, 2,200 lumens of brightness (both color and white), and gaming compatibility up to 4K/120fps.
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Ultra HD Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The Amateur 4K
Ralph Potts  |  Jul 31, 2025
The Amateur
Picture
Sound
Extras

The Amateur is based on the novel by Robert Littel, and is an espionage thriller, that tells the story of Charlie Heller, a brilliant, but deeply introverted decoder for the CIA, working out of a basement office at headquarters in Langley, whose life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack. After pressing his supervisors to, not only take action, but allow him to be a part of the investigation, Heller, played by Rami Malek, discovers that they seem to be reluctant to get to the bottom of who may be involved. Despite their objections, he decides to take matters into his own hands, embarking on a dangerous trek across the globe with his intelligence serving as the ultimate weapon for eluding his pursuers, and achieving his revenge.

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