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Audio Video News
Paradigm Expands Finish Options for Persona Speakers
SV Staff  |  May 22, 2018
Paradigm has launched a design studio offering a range of finish options to dress up its already stylish Persona speaker line, one of Sound & Vision’s 2017 Top Picks.
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Audio Video News
Netflix Forms Storytelling Partnership With the Obamas
SV Staff  |  May 22, 2018
President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have entered into a unique multi-year agreement with Netflix to produce a “diverse mix of content, including the potential for scripted series, unscripted series, docu-series, documentaries and features.”
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Headphone ReviewsGrace Notes
Beem United BeActiv E300: Active, Affordable Earphone
Leslie Shapiro  |  May 21, 2018
Beem United is back with a wireless Bluetooth earphone that survives a massive workout on a single charge, while remaining comfortable and secure. For the price, it’s a decent option to grab on your way to the gym or your own pain cave home gym.

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Audio Video News
Eye on Apple’s HomePod 4 Months After Launch
SV Staff  |  May 21, 2018
It’s been almost a year since Apple announced HomePod but only four months since the smart speaker actually hit the market in early February.
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AV Receiver Buying TipsAudio Video News
Best AV Receivers of 2018
SV Staff  |  May 21, 2018
The pursuit of serious home theater demands serious gear and no component is more important than the command center that sits at its core. Of course, we’re talking about the AV receiver (AVR), which in addition serving as system hub and providing unified control delivers power to five, seven, or more speakers. Among the dozens of products we’ve reviewed so far this year, are three exemplary yet still reasonably priced AVRs: the Yamaha Aventage RX-A2070 ($1,600), Denon’s AVR-X3400H ($999), and the NAD T758 V3 ($1,300). Let’s take a closer look…
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Geostorm
Josef Krebs  |  May 18, 2018
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Facing their own complete extinction due to extreme storms that are destroying whole cities, the world finally comes together, sending 17 teams of scientists and engineers to create a system, a series of satellites all controlled by a giant space station that can use an assortment of devices—super lasers, thermal missiles, freezing beams, etc.—to stabilize the weather. Naturally, someone’s gonna try to seize control of Dutchboy, as the system is known, and weaponize it to make himself president of an all-powerful country that will destroy its enemies and rule the planet.
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Audio Video News
Sound United & Sonos Settle Patent Infringement Suit
SV Staff  |  May 18, 2018
Sound United today announced that it has reached a settlement with Sonos, resolving all patent infringement litigation between the two companies, including the upcoming case filed against Sonos by Denon.
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Audio Video NewsNew Products
Hisense Launches $3,000 4K ‘Laser TV’
SV Staff  |  May 18, 2018
China-based TV maker Hisense today announced the availability of an 80-inch followup to the 100-inch ‘Laser TV’ it introduced last year.
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Apptitude
How to Binge on Top Shows for Free
Michael Antonoff  |  May 18, 2018
Most streaming services offer free trials to first-time subscribers, so it’s possible to feast on a tower of see-food without paying a dime. These trials extend from one week to 30 days, but the onus is on the new subscriber to cancel just before their credit card is charged.
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Throwback Thursday
Speaker Cables: Can You Hear the Difference?
Laurence Greenhill  |  May 17, 2018
The results of blind listening tests with eleven audio experts.

Editor's Note, 2018: In the early 1980s, esoteric high-end audio as we know it today was just taking off as an alternative to the mass-market equipment offered in neighborhood TV/appliance stores. Fueled by an underground audio press that included magazines and newsletters such as Sound & Vision sister publication Stereophile, The Absolute Sound, International Audio Review, The Audio Critic, and others, a cottage industry emerged, one populated by small manufacturers of low-volume, high-priced exotica claiming greater faithfulness to the music than the gear reviewed and advertised in the pages of Stereo Review, High Fidelity, Audio, et al.

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