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Holiday Gift Guide 2024 – Personal Audio

2024 was a bumper year for personal audio. Every year we there are better headphones, better wireless earphones, and improved Bluetooth recievers. Our favorites choices this year were the Audeze Maxwell Planar Magnetic Gaming Headset and MM-100 Planar Magnetic Headphones, Meze Alba Dynamic Driver IEMs, Cleer ARC 3 Open Ear True Wireless Headphones, 1MORE Open Ear Wireless Headphones S70, 1MORE Penta Driver Headphones P50, Poly Voyager Free 20 True Wireless Bluetooth Earbuds, and the bluMe Duo premium HiFi Bluetooth Transmitter & Receiver. Read on for our recommendations.

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

Holiday Gift Guide 2024 – Digital Photo – Shift Cam ProGrip

We love mobile photography, and the advent of a cell phone capable of serious photographic expression has been with us for a while. The problem is two-fold and anchored in physics. First, sensor size matters, and b) optics matter. To keep cell phone small, all sorts of wizardry is taking place with the sensor of related processing. The problem is the lenses, try as you my, but even with advanced MTF curves, you still need glass. With phones being replaced every couple of years, a system from ShiftCam fits a wide variety of phones, future proofing your purchase. Read on for our full review.

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

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

Holiday Gift Guide 2024 – Photobooks

We love photography books, which is kind of a given considering our founder once worked at Aperture, the esteemed publisher of fine art photo books. This year we are highlighting Loli Kantor’s “In Search of Mother;” John Singletary’s “Traces,” a conceptual amalgamation of video, found objects and created footage, and animation; Elizabeth Waterman’s “Candyland,” a stunningly erotic and surreal book about strippers, adult entertainers, fashion, and style; and Jonathan Moller’s “In Transit,” which explores travelers of all kinds, from different countries, with differing needs, budgets, and demands. Read on for our full review.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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