dolby atmos

I still have a couple of the old show discs in a drawer, the ones you would come home with after a dealer visit and immediately annoy the household with. NextLevel Acoustics is trying to bring that back at CEDIA with Beyond the Room, except it is a download rather than a disc. Ninety seconds...

Robert Harris has put up one of his short verdicts on the 1959 Ben-Hur in 4K, and it is about as clean a scorecard as that format produces. Image in Dolby Vision gets a 10 on both his forensic and his non-scientific marks, audio in Dolby Atmos gets a 10, it makes use of 4K and works well there...

There is a nearly finished room doing the rounds that is worth a look for the mounting idea alone. The space is about 11 by 14 feet, which is not a lot, and the owner has a 7.4.4 in it with four subwoofers. KEF R3 Meta up front, an R6 Meta, CI160QS in the surrounds, CI130.2CR for the tops, a...

A Sonos device with model number S59 and product code RM059 got FCC authorization on August 14, and the paperwork carries the internal name Gambit, including metadata for a future user booklet. Sonos calls it a wireless smart speaker in the filing. Bloomberg reported it looks a lot like the Beam...

Silver Series 8G is official and it runs to seven models: Silver 500 8G and Silver 300 8G floorstanders, Silver 100 8G and Silver 50 8G standmounters, a Silver Centre 8G, the Silver AMS 8G Atmos-enabled modules, and the one that actually changes things, a Silver On-Wall 8G. The 7G range that...

Marantz has slotted an AV 30 in below the AV 10 and AV 20, and the pitch is the familiar one: most of the flagship processing at a price you can actually reach. The spec sheet backs up the first half of that. It processes 11.4 channels, decodes Atmos, DTS:X, Auro-3D and IMAX Enhanced, runs...

Somebody posted a 7.2.4 Klipsch build this morning that's essentially done on the construction side, and his own list of what's left is the interesting part: audio calibration not dialed in yet, acoustic panels still to go up around the room, more automation wanted. That order is backwards, and...

Dealabs got the whole thing early, as usual. Sonos Ace Ultra, announcement September 1, on sale September 29, 449 in Europe. The original Ace launched at 499. So the step-up model comes in fifty cheaper than the thing it steps up from. That's the part worth talking about here, more than the...

Somebody on Reddit put Sonic 3 up as their new family friendly Atmos reference disc, sitting just behind The Wild Robot, and their existing rotation is Top Gun Maverick, Saving Private Ryan and Avatar Fire and Ash. Their description of it is the useful part: no real LFE punch, but roughly every...

TechRadar ran the Ultimea Poseidon D60 through a few days of testing and the verdict is roughly what you would guess for a 5.1 system under 200 dollars: the surrounds do real work, dialogue comes through clean, and then the bass turns out to have no bite and there are no upfiring drivers at all...

Someone just posted a first dedicated theater build that goes against the grain: 7.1.4 layout, Marantz Cinema 30 running it, and instead of a screen and projector the front of the room is a 115-inch TCL RGB TV. Ground speakers are Infinity Beta, ceiling channels are 8-inch KEF in-ceilings, gear...

Build thread worth a look, and worth arguing with a little. First dedicated room for this guy, 7.1.4, and the front of it is a 115-inch TCL RGB set rather than a projector. Marantz Cinema 30 running everything, Infinity Beta on the floor, 8 inch KEF in the ceiling, a Salamander Chicago 245...

Late night watching is the only reason I own headphones at all, so the Sonos Ace Ultra leak is more interesting to me than a headphone launch normally would be. Dealabs has the whole sheet out ahead of a September 1 announcement with sales from September 29. Three colours, Black, White and an...

Sound and Image have their review up of the Music Studio 7, Samsung's first proper streaming speaker, and the backstory is more interesting than the usual launch. This came out of the California Audio Lab in Valencia, the operation Allan Devantier set up in 2014 after Samsung bought Harman...

Picked up the standalone 50th anniversary Blu-ray mostly for the concert, and I think that is the honest way to approach this disc. The Los Angeles Sports Arena show from April 26, 1975 runs 16 songs, restored and remastered by Steven Wilson at 96kHz/24-bit, and it opens with Raving and Drooling...

There is a piece at ecoustics arguing the television is absorbing work that used to belong to the receiver, and I think it is right about who it actually affects. Nobody running an Anthem with seven passive speakers and four ceiling channels is unplugging anything this year. The person being...

What Hi-Fi has the Bravia Theatre Trio down to GBP 1,799 with a code, from 1,999, and the write-up made the point I have been chewing on since Sony announced this thing. A soundbar exists to cut the speaker count. The Trio ships with two satellites and then tells you they are not surrounds, they...

Saw someone asking about converting a two channel room to 5.1.4 with a scope screen and it is a question worth more than a shopping list, because the screen decides most of it before you buy a single speaker. With a 2.35 screen you have two options for the centre and neither is free...

Klipsch is giving the Reference Premiere III range its full debut at Audio Advice Live in Raleigh this weekend, after showing it early at CES back in January. The main home theatre demo is a 7.4.4 built from four RP-8203F floorstanders, four RP-1600CSW subwoofers and four in-ceiling height...

The build that holds the all-time upvote record over on r/hometheater just got a two year update post, and the headline is the channel count. It went out as a 7.7.4 and it is now a 9.9.4. If I am reading that notation the way it is normally used over there, that is two more bed channels and two...