Michael Berk

Headphone Amp/DAC Reviews
Making the Wireless Connection: New HP 3D, TV, and Audio Solutions
Michael Berk  |  Nov 16, 2011

Over the past couple of weeks Hewlett Packard has rolled out a huge pile of new consumer products, among them a clutch of all-in-ones, touchscreen PCs and tablets, Beats-enhanced laptops, and even a curious little Wi-Fi mouse.

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Altec Lansing Debuts Custom In-Ear Headphones
Michael Berk  |  Nov 15, 2011

Having already moved successfully into the iDevice docking and low-cost earphone spaces, Altec Lansing is testing the premium headphone market. But rather than looking to pick up a celebrity endorser, they've instead gone high-end, announcing today a full line of custom-fit in-ear 'phones: the A1, A2, and A3, offering one, two, and three balanced armature drivers respectively, in medical-grade silicone housings.

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Subwoofer Reviews
Bass Week Wrap: Six Substantial Subs
Michael Berk  |  Nov 11, 2011

Over the course of this past week, our reviewers Brent Butterworth and Michael Trei examined six current subwoofer offerings, ranging from the simple to the feature packed, from Monoprice's $84 MSUB-A122 to Wisdom Audio's genre-defying $4,000 SCS, with entries from sub mainstays Velodyne, Cadence, SVS, and Sunfire along the way.

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Headphone Amp/DAC Reviews
Atari Arcade: Hands on With Retro Classics
Michael Berk  |  Nov 02, 2011

When Atari's Greatest Hits made its way into the App Store this past April, retro-oriented gaming geeks worldwide - especially those who'd never been quite geeky enough to seek out ROMs to run on the open-source MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) - rejoiced.

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Curvaceous Docks: Monitor Audio i-Deck 100 and 200, Now Available
Michael Berk  |  Oct 25, 2011

British manufacturer Monitor Audio has a deserved reputation for well-designed, high-performing speaker systems, and the latest offerings in the company's line of iOS device docks, the i-deck 100 and 200, follow in those footsteps. And now they can be yours.

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Win a Peel Universal Remote
Michael Berk  |  Oct 21, 2011

The Peel universal remote is a combo platter including a transmitter and receiver that keeps in touch with your home network via ZigBee and passes on commands to your gear via IR, operated via a free app for  Continue Reading >

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Whole-Home Audio for the Rest of Us
Michael Berk  |  Oct 13, 2011

Legrand - a leader in residential wiring and custom install components - in something of a surprise move announced the airQast wireless music system at this year's CEDIA Expo.

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Beats by Dr. Dre Holiday Preview
Michael Berk  |  Oct 12, 2011

S+V dropped by the Beats by Dr. Dre/Monster Cable holiday product preview last night, to check out what the company had to offer to follow up on the Beats Pro headphones we looked at in this month's headphone shootout.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Giveaway: Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Michael Berk  |  Oct 07, 2011

We've been following the progress of 7.1 audio pretty closely, and this week saw the release of Transformers: Dark of the Moon on Blu-ray, complete with a new, home theater-specific Dolby TrueHD 7.1 mix.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Giveaway: Jackie Brown and Pulp Fiction
Michael Berk  |  Oct 07, 2011

Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown and Pulp Fiction are both out this week in brand-new Blu-ray releases, approved by the director, and we've gotten some copies to give away, courtesy of Lionsgate/Miramax.

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