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Everyone should have these. A collection of movies and music that you use as references for video and audio systems. As a professional audio engineer, I have a collection of music that I use so I can tell how a speaker system is coloring the...

If you’ve ever thought about building your own speakers and are looking for a little inspiration, here it is in the form of a speaker built by DIYer Mark in Latvia.

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.

No format launch would be complete without movies to play, and UHD Blu-ray Disc boosters got more than they could have hoped for, with more than two-dozen titles from Sony, Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, and Lionsgate available concurrent with the debut of the Samsung UBD-K8500 player and all mastered with HDR10 high dynamic range. We asked our movie reviewers Tom Norton and David Vaughn for their top-line observations on 14 titles in the first batch to help you separate the demo-worthy from the duds.