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Saturday, May 19th, 2007
JBL L880 Floorstanding Speaker Review
Audioholics has posted a review of JBL’s latest entry in to their Studio L speaker line, the L880. The L880 is a 4-way floor-standing speaker consisting of a dual 6in woofers, a 4in midrange, a 1in titanium tweeter, and a 3/4in mylar super-tweeter. The drivers are housed in a well-braces cabinet made of [...]
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Saturday, May 19th, 2007
NHT Xd Loudspeaker System Review
Audioholics has posted a review of NHT’s ambitious entry in to the high end audio market, the Xd System. The XdS consists of two satellite speakers (XdS), a powered bass module (XdW), and a processor/amplifier (XdA). The XdS contains a 5.25in magnesium woofer and a 1in aluminum tweeter; both are premium components manufactured [...]
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Sunday, December 10th, 2006
Audioholics reviews the Pioneer Elite PRO-940HD Plasma TV
Audioholics has posted a review of the newest addition to Pioneer’s Elite Plasma line, the PRO-940HD. It is a 42 inch panel with a native resolution of 1024×768. The reviewer was particularly impressed with the superb black level and the plethora of inputs including two HDMI (1080p support), VGA, CableCard, and a 10/100 [...]
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Saturday, November 4th, 2006
Audioholics reviews the DVD-3930CI DVD Player
Audioholics has posted a review of Denon’s latest entry in its 3900 line, the DVD-3930CI. It sports 10-bit Silicon Optix REALTA T2 Processing, 480i and 1080p HDMI output, digital keystone adjustment for front projectors, Burr Brown PCM 1796 DACS for the front LR channels, and HDMI 1.1 audio output. It scored perfect (130/130) [...]
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Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
JBL Studio L Series Review
Sound and Vision Magazine has recently posted a review of JBL’s recent update to the venerable Studio series, the Studio L. The review system consisted of a pair of L820 mains, an LC2 center, a pair of L 810 surrounds and an L8400P subwoofer. The L820 and LC2 are both 4-way speakers which [...]
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Monday, February 27th, 2006
Onix X-LS Speaker Review
Audioholics has reviewed Onix’s long awaited entry into the budget speaker market, the X-LS. The X-LS is a 2-way bookshelf speaker that features a 1in soft-dome tweeter crossed over at 1.75khz to a 6.5in treated paper composite woofer. The ported cabinet is tuned to 42hz which yields usable bass extension down to 60hz. [...]
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Friday, January 20th, 2006
Panasonic SA-XR57 Receiver
Panasonic has issued a press release regarding an update to their line of pure digital receivers. The SA-XR55 will be replaced by the SA-XR57 which includes a few important upgrades; HDMI 1.1 and HDAVI Control. The MSRP has been raised to $400 (the SA-XR55 was $300); here’s hoping the power supply has been [...]
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2006
Xbox 360 DVD Player Review
Kris Deering of Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity has updated his dvd player benchmark with results from the Xbox 360’s dvd player. The results were somewhat of a mixed bag; in regards to deinterlacing and core performance it is comparable with an average budget dvd player. The reviewer was disappointed [...]
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2006
SVS PB12-Plus/2 Subwoofer Review
Mark Sanfilipo of Audioholics has posted a review of SVS’s midrange dual driver subwoofer, the PB12-Plus/2. This subwoofer features two of SVS’s latest plus series drivers (dB12.2) in a large ported enclosure; the power is provided by a 900W BASH amplifier. The subwoofer ships in a defauly tune of 25hz (3 ports open); [...]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
NeuNeo HVD2085 High Definition DVD Player Review
Kris Deering of Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity has posted benchmark results from the NeuNeo HVD2085 High Definition DVD Player. The dvd player uses an AMLogic video processing chipset for MPEG decoding and deinterlacing. This chipset also features support for HVD (high definition video on a standard dvd) and upscaling (720P, [...]
