home theater audio

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    Sonos or Bose is really a question about what you add in year three

    SoundGuys put up a piece arguing that when you pick between Sonos and Bose for a home theatre, the deciding factor is not how the bar sounds on day one but what you plan to bolt on later. I think that is the correct frame and it is the one almost nobody uses in the shop. Both of these are...
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    Paradigm 720v2 or KEF Q11 Meta on an X2900H - which way would you go?

    Someone over on the home theatre sub is stuck between two full sets and I think it is a more interesting question than the usual which speaker sounds better thread. The two options are Paradigm 720v2 towers with the 520C centre and 220B surrounds, or KEF Q11 Meta towers with the Q6 Meta centre...
  3. Serena Anderson

    Powered towers keep tempting me, and the Fluance Ri91 review is the latest nudge

    HomeTechnologyReview just put up an Ri91 review and the pitch is the same one that keeps circling back: a good looking floorstander with the amplification already inside, so you skip the separate box entirely. Plug in the TV, stream from a phone, done. The reviewer liked the AMT tweeters a lot...
  4. Katherine_K

    Emotiva's $1,799 Nostala FT12 puts room correction inside the subwoofer

    Emotiva has a new $1,799 sub, the Nostala FT12, and two details make it worth a thread rather than a shrug. First, the room correction lives in the subwoofer itself - 56-bit DSP, a calibrated mic in the box, and you run it from a Cal/Preset button on the back panel. No app, no computer, no...
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