Ken C. Pohlmann

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How to Make Your Own LPs
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Feb 20, 2018
If you're like me, you wake up every morning from a wonderful dream where you own a LP replication plant. In your factory, plastic goes in, and plastic goes out. Except that the outgoing plastic has magical shapes pressed into it. Now my dream, and yours, can come true.

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The Fastest Car Stereo Ever [UPDATED]
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Feb 06, 2018
Today is the big day. Or rather, today is the heavy day. The day that the Falcon Heavy is (finally) scheduled for blast-off. Yes, it might be scrubbed. Or it might just blow up. If it launches, it will be an important day in the history of car stereo.

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That's All She Wrote
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Jan 16, 2018
The CES exhibits officially closed Friday at 4 pm, West Coast time, although a CES Closing Party was scheduled to run until 4 am. I did not attend that party.

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Harman Kardon Debuts an Alluring Portable Smart Speaker
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Jan 12, 2018
They are popping up everywhere, smart speakers, that is. Harman Kardon has already sworn allegiance to the Cortana cabal with its Invoke, and now it is cozying up to Alexa with the Allure Portable. There is no honor among thieves or audio companies.

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CES 2018
Bowers & Wilkins Shows Its First Noise-Canceling Headphone
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Jan 12, 2018
The dancing robots and talking smart speakers get all the attention at CES, but there is still a strong showing of traditional audio products. They don't light up or take selfies. They just sound really good.

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Kicker Makes a Splash at CES
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Jan 12, 2018
Sometimes the headlines write themselves. Nevertheless, I have a certain fondness for wireless waterproof speakers. I take them out in the back forty. When it starts to rain, I don't care.

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THX and Massdrop Launch Audiophile Headphone Amp
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Jan 11, 2018
I was not familiar with Massdrop until my fearless S&V Editor Bob Ankosko turned me on to it. Good thing he did. This looks like a heck of a headphone amplifier.

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Lenovo Shows Smart Displays with Google Assistant
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Jan 11, 2018
The smart speaker revolution is raging. Everyone, and I mean everyone, is either showing smart speakers or else waving their hands and saying how soon theirs will be available. But there is already a mutant version rapidly emerging - the smart display.

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Beyerdynamic Debuts Aventho Headphones with Personalized Response
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Jan 11, 2018
The Aventho looks like a fairly conventional supra aural (on-ear) headphone. Also, fairly conventionally, it offers Bluetooth wireless connectivity. But it also features an interesting accompanying app that is unconventional, but extremely valuable.

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IRIVER Announces MQA Support
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Jan 10, 2018
IRIVER is hopping on the MQA bandwagon, starting with its Activo CT10 streaming player, with other models to join in later. Is this good evidence that MQA is turning the corner to become the defacto standard bearer of hi-res music?

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