Brent Butterworth

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A 3D Projector for $1,499
Brent Butterworth  |  Aug 17, 2011  |  0 comments

For anyone into ultra-low-budget home theater, yesterday was one of the greatest days ever. That’s because Optoma announced the HD33, which cuts the minimum price for a 3D home theater projector by 67%.

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Five Vintage Amps and Preamps to Add to Your eBay Watch List
Brent Butterworth  |  Aug 22, 2011  |  0 comments

A five-year-old surround-sound receiver has all the appeal of a five-year-old banana. But a five-year-old (or even 25-year-old) stereo amplifier might sound and perform every bit as good as one built last month.

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CEA-2010: A Good Baseline for Bass?
Brent Butterworth  |  Sep 05, 2011  |  0 comments

The way the audio industry has been measuring subwoofers for decades has turned out to be inadequate. But the new method they’ve come up with may be causing as much confusion as the old one.

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Headphone Reviews
Fuse InTune Headphones: Tuned to Your Taste
Brent Butterworth  |  Sep 07, 2011  |  0 comments

When I got the press release for the new InTune in-ear headphones from Fuse, it made me think: How is any particular genre of music supposed to sound? And does it already sound that way, or do you have to do something to it to make it sound like it’s supposed to?

The InTune headphones inspired this question because they’re available in four varieties, each tuned for a certain type of music: red for rap and hip-hop, orange for rock, blues and country; blue for jazz and classical; and green for pop and easy listening.

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CEDIA Expo: Headphones from PSB and Paradigm?
Brent Butterworth  |  Sep 09, 2011  |  0 comments

The CEDIA Expo focuses on home theater sound, home automation, high-end video projection, and all sorts of toys for rich guys’ mansions. So I’m surprised to say that the first report I’m filing from the Expo is about headphones — a product that few custom installers even sell.

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The World’s Most Expensive In-Wall Speaker
Brent Butterworth  |  Oct 05, 2011  |  0 comments

Somehow when I was walking around last month’s CEDIA Expo, I completely missed what must surely be the biggest, baddest, most expensive in-wall speaker ever created.

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Subwoofer Reviews
Review: Cadence CSX-12 Mark II Subwoofer
Brent Butterworth  |  Nov 11, 2011  |  0 comments

Held up against the $3,499 Velodyne DD-12+ and other high-end 12-inch subwoofers that populate the CEDIA Expo, the $399 Cadence CSX-12 Mark II seems incredibly affordable.

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Tower Speaker Reviews
Review: MartinLogan EM-ESL, EM-C2 and EM-FX2 Speakers
Brent Butterworth  |  Oct 19, 2011  |  0 comments

“But is it a real MartinLogan?” I wondered to myself as I read the press release for the ElectroMotion ESL tower speaker that had come through my e-mail.

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South — a 3D Sports Bar — Opens in L.A.
Brent Butterworth  |  Oct 14, 2011  |  0 comments

Like every other Sound+Vision writer, I’ve seen a lot of 3D TV. But I never saw so much 3D TV as I did last night, when I walked into South, Los Angeles’ first 3D sports bar. Everywhere I looked, I could see a Vizio flat-panel TV showing 3D programming—sports mostly, of course, but also games and a couple of Blu-ray Discs.

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Test Report: Sonus Faber Liuto Speakers and REL R-528 Subwoofer
Brent Butterworth  |  Oct 16, 2011  |  0 comments

Romantics see Italy as a place of rich history and sophisticated culture. Not me. As a non-romantic, I can think of Italy only as the birthplace of the Fiat 128 that often left me walking instead of driving, and the location of a honeymoon in which I fought frenzied traffic and struggled to find a decent meal.

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