Sometimes you want to feel the bass in your home theater, and sometimes you want enough bass that people sitting on the couch on a different floor get a massage. Installing a pair of SUB1s in my home theater gave me the best bass I've heard at home, and if I wanted to the rest of the house knew it as well. My full review is over at Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity, … [Read more...] about Paradigm SUB1 Subwoofer Review
NEC PA271W LCD Monitor Review
NEC has always made some of the best monitors on the market, first with CRTs and now with LCDs. Designers and photographers can swear by them, but are the features good for the general user as well, or overkill? I gave the monitor a review over at AnandTech so you can see what I thought of it, and who should be looking to pick one up. … [Read more...] about NEC PA271W LCD Monitor Review
Wireless HDMI Round-Up
A round-up of three different wireless HDMI setups that I did for Secrets of Home Theater is now live. They all had their good and bad sides, and while they all did the job in most cases, there were differences that made them all different solutions for different people. Read the full review to see if one of them can work for you. … [Read more...] about Wireless HDMI Round-Up
JVC X30 Projector Review
JVC was kind enough to loan me a JVC X30 projector for a couple months to see how well it performed. Friends have owned JVC projectors, and many good things have been written about them over the years but I had never had the chance to use them myself. Now that I have had the chance, almost anything you have heard about them is true, with black levels that can't be beat, and a … [Read more...] about JVC X30 Projector Review
HP ZR2740w Review
HP came out and fired a shot across the bow of everyone making high resolution displays by introducing the ZR2740w. With a true 8-bit IPS panel, 2560x1440 resolution, and an MSRP of only $729, they have managed to undercut the competition by hundreds of dollars. Did they have to sacrifice performance to get there? Read my review at AnandTech to find out. … [Read more...] about HP ZR2740w Review