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Holiday Gift Guide 2024 – Audio – Vera-Fi Vanguard Caldera – 10” Subwoofer, Scout Speakers, and Fosi Audio V3 Stereo Amplifer

Like most sensible audiophiles, we love the holy grail, affordable, well-built, feature rich, components at a bargain price. Vera-Fi Audio is a new company created by audio professionals with decades in the industry. The first products we reviewed included the Vanguard Scouts, a solid two-way bookshelf speaker built to the highest standards at a very affordable price. The follow-up product, the Vanguard Caldera – 10” Active Subwoofer pumps bass in an unexpected way. Using the Fosi Audio V3 Stereo Amplifier, you can put together an amazingly musical system for almost nothing. Read on for our full review!

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Harris Fogel and Nancy Burlan, posted 12/10/2024

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Holiday Gift Guide 2024 – Audio – Kimber Kable PBJ Interconnects with Ultraplate RCA Connectors

Cable technology keeps advancing, with new designs, windings, and insulation. When we purchased our Hafler DH-200 amplifier, the instructions were simple: “Standard 18-gauge lamp cord ("zipcord") is satisfactory for distances up to 30 feet for an 8 ohm speaker.” Nowadays, this is considered heresy by audiophiles, and exotic metals, castings, and other technologies, are commonplace. Accordingly, we were excited to test the legendary Kimber Kable PBJ Interconnects. Founded by Ray Kimber, Kimber Kable has a sterling reputation among audiophiles dating back to the late 80s. Read on for our review.

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Harris Fogel and Nancy Burlan, posted 12/8/2024

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Holiday Gift Guide 2024 – Audio – AudioQuest PowerQuest 505 Power Conditioner

It’s always a challenge to pick our audio equipment favorites each year, there are so many fine products coming out. Power conditioners keep advancing and we looked at the AudioQuest PowerQuest 505 power conditioner, which we feel might be one of the best bargains in audio today. Read on for our full review.

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Nancy Burlan and Harris Fogel, posted 12/6/2024

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Review – ViewSonic X2-4K – 4K UHD 2150 Lumens Xbox Certified 240Hz, 4.2ms Gaming Projector with HDR

Video projectors were once the province of corporations, education, and on occasion for the consumer with a thirst for an ever larger screen. Times are different and affordable video projectors are now available, with bright, beautiful colors, higher resolutions, responsive speed, and with long life projection systems. The ViewSonic Video Projector X2-4K - 4K UHD 2150 Lumens Xbox Certified 240Hz, 4.2ms Gaming Projector with HDR is a great example of a video projector with great versatility. Read on for our full review.

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Harris Fogel and Nancy Burlan, posted 12/2/2024

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Review – The ViewSonic VP16-OLED Thin Portable Monitor

Do you need to expand your display without any hassles? Is color accuracy important? Is portablity important? Look no further than the recently released ViewSonic VP16-OLED Thin Portable Monitor, which checks all the boxes. As part of their flagship Color Pro line, it has Pantone Validation, and color critical factory calibration. Read on for our full review.

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Harris Fogel and Nancy Burlan, posted 11/24/2024

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Review – The RICOH Portable Monitor 150BW

Today’s laptops typically have wide-gamut displays with wonderfully high resolution, but sometimes a larger or extended display is in order. The recently released RICOH Portable Monitor 150BW external touchscreen display is a solid example of how easy it is to expand your screen footprint while still enjoying impressive quality. Read on for our full review!

Harris Fogel and Nancy Burlan, posted 7/30/2024

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Holiday Gift Guides 2023 – Lifestyle and More

We are fans of cool, useful gifts, and a few come to mind. Here are some favorites!

The Oral-B iO Sense Series 10 in Cosmic Black Electric Toothbrush is their latest approach to dental hygiene, the Dreamroo - Over the Sink Colander is a very cool addition to your kitchen. Love your hearing, check out the EarasersHearing Protectors, and the Sennheiser SoundProTex Hearing Protectors. Tired of cords getting loose, consider the CordBrick, or folks swiping your chargers, the Lock Socket to the rescue. Reliefband makes two wristwatch sized devices that can prevent nausea. The new NEX Playground is an AI game console with uses a camera to recognize motion. Very cool for all ages! Read our full reviews for more!

Harris Fogel, Nancy Burlan, and Frank Schramm, posted 12/06/2023

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Holiday Gift Guides 2023 – Digital Imaging

Santa’s Digital Imaging Elves were busy in 2023, and brought a slew of actual improvements that will bring wholesale change to photographers everyday workflow. Adobe’s introduction and refinement of the RAW workflow with A.I. Denoise and Masking isn’t a minor revision. Sonnet Tech’s new Echo 20 Thunderbolt 4 Superdock has a slick, svelte design with cutting edge performance, and for great SD Card performance, the Kingston Canvas React Plus SD Card, and OWC Atlas with their Innergize App, help make sure your shoots go off as planned. The Xencelabs Medium Bundle Tablet sets a new standard for image editing. Read our full reports.

Harris Fogel, Nancy Burlan, and Frank Schramm, posted 12/06/2023

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Holiday Gift Guide 2023 – Photo Books

There was a day when if you came across a dozen new photo books a year, and you had the bases covered. Now, it seems that dozens of good photo books are published every day, so it’s hard to keep up. We reviewed a number of wonderful books this year, and narrowed it down to four that stood out. Louisiana Lens – Photographs from the Historic New Orleans Collection – John H. Lawrence. Countdown – Jeanine Michna-Bales and Adam Reynolds – A Visual Exploration of the Cold War’s Opposing Nuclear Architecture. Jamey Stilling – ATACAMA: Renewable Energy and Mining in the High Desert of Chile, and on a more practical level, Declutter Your Photo Life – Adam Pratt. Read our reviews to discover why these should on a shelf in your home soon.

Harris Fogel, Nancy Burlan, and Frank Schramm, posted 12/6/2023

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Holiday Gift Guides 2023 – Audio

We love audio gifts for the holidays, especially products that combine cutting edge technology, rich feature sets, and affordable pricing. The Rogersound Labs RSL ia255.1 is a great, entry level Class D amplifier, with solid features. The SVS 3000 Micro is an amazing, small footprint subwoofer, whose small size belies its powerful output. The iFi Neo Stream, is an amazing product, with extraordinary audiophile chops at a reasonable price. The Vera-Fi Audio Vera-Link AMP is a small, powerful, Class D amplifier that turns every speaker into an almost instantly ready-to-go Bluetooth speaker. All are some superb products for a great holiday season! Read on for our reviews!

Harris Fogel, Nancy Burlan, and Frank Schramm, Posted 12/05/2023

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