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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.

A Mac Edition Radio Holiday Gift Pick!

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

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.

A Mac Edition Radio Holiday Gift Pick!

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

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.

A Mac Edition Radio Holiday Gift Pick!

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

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

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

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

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

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

We don’t need to sneak LPs into our homes. Well, unless you don’t want to advertise spending $130 plus for an artisanal hand-pressed one-step LP of music you’ve owned for thirty years and know from heart. So, you still might be sneaking that into your house from a disapproving partner. But the point is, with streaming we don’t even need physical media. Although I still have a soft spot for tangible media, from LPs to Blu-ray, the bulk of our current listening is via streaming. Read on for our notes on different services.

Harris Fogel, Nancy Burlan, and Frank Schramm, posted 12/05/2022

2023 has been a bumper year for extraordinary musical releases, more than we could hope to cover in detail, so forgive us if we’ve left out your favorites. Here a few notable vendors. TRPTK, Native DSD, The Audiophile Society, 2L The Nordic Sound, and The Jazz Detective are all supplying superlative content, with various resolutions. Want to party a bit, check out The Rolling Stones – Grrr Live! on Bluray. A massive remixing and remastering of The Beatles - 1962–1967 (Red Album), and The Beatles - 1967–1970 (Blue Album) is probably the most important release of the year.

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

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