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SV Staff  |  Oct 13, 2017  | 
HyperX, California-based maker of high-performance gaming products, is gearing up for holidays with a new headset and related accessories aimed at serious gamers.
Rob Sabin  |  Oct 12, 2017  | 
Not content to let consumers come to OLED, LG Electronics is now taking OLED straight to the public in an impressive new traveling demo experience. Dubbed the "LG OLED TV Cinema House powered by Dolby," LG's portable theater kiosk features a spartan demo room inside that comes to life with the assistance of a 77-inch sample of LG's Signature W7 "wallpaper" OLED TV, it's accompanying Dolby Atmos soundbar, and a half-dozen projectors that together turn the four walls of the approximately 10 x 20-feet viewing space into a visually and sonically immersive cocoon.

SV Staff  |  Oct 12, 2017  | 
Periodic Audio has announced a portable amplifier small enough to fit in a watch pocket.
SV Staff  |  Oct 11, 2017  | 
McIntosh today introduced a two-channel integrated amplifier designed to deliver big sound from a small package.
SV Staff  |  Oct 11, 2017  | 
At long last, Sonos has announced its entry into the burgeoning smart speaker space with the Sonos One, the first voice-controlled speaker to support two voice services — Amazon’s Alexa and Google Assistant.
SV Staff  |  Oct 10, 2017  | 
Smart speakers such as Amazon’s Echo and Google Home are finding their way into an ever expanding base of U.S. homes, which raises a couple questions: Where are people putting these voice-controlled, virtual assistants and how are they using them?
SV Staff  |  Oct 09, 2017  | 
Google announced a more powerful smart speaker last week along with along with an Echo Dot-like device designed to make its Google Assistant more accessible throughout the home.
SV Staff  |  Oct 09, 2017  | 
Netflix has raised pricing on two of its three subscription plans.
SV Staff  |  Oct 06, 2017  | 
Jeffrey Katzenberg, former chairman of Walt Disney Studios and co-founder of DreamWorks Animation, has a grand scheme to reinvent TV for mobile viewers.
SV Staff  |  Oct 06, 2017  | 
Focal, the French manufacturer of speakers and headphones, today introduced a new lower-prices set of open-back circumaural headphones aimed at audiophiles.
SV Staff  |  Oct 06, 2017  | 
The Producers & Engineers Wing of the Recording Academy will present new guidelines for hi-res music production at the upcoming AES New York Convention as part of its continuing efforts to deliver music to consumers in its highest quality form.
SV Staff  |  Oct 05, 2017  | 
NAD today announced that it will ship an integrated amplifier in November that recalls one of the most famous amps in audio history: the NAD 3020, introduced in 1978.
SV Staff  |  Oct 04, 2017  | 
Integra has announced that a Dolby Vision update for a number of current and new AV controllers and receivers will be available by end of the year. The firmware update will enable the passthrough of high dynamic range (HDR) content encoded in the Dolby Vision format.
SV Staff  |  Oct 04, 2017  | 
As voice control technology spreads like wildfire throughout the AV world, Amazon is looking to keep its lead over the competition with redesigned Echo and Echo Plus smart speakers, new Alexa features, and a new family member, the Echo Spot.

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