• Skip to main content
  • Reviews
    • Audio
    • Video
    • Media
  • Guides
    • 4K UHD Blu-ray Guide
    • 4K Calculator – Do You Benefit?
    • RGB: Full vs. Limited
  • Articles
  • Press Releases
  • About
  • ISF Calibrations for the Portland, OR Area
Reference Home Theater

Reference Home Theater

Home Theater Reviews

Chris Heinonen

Paradigm SUB1 Subwoofer Review

May 2, 2012 by Chris Heinonen Leave a Comment

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 […]

NEC PA271W LCD Monitor Review

May 1, 2012 by Chris Heinonen Leave a Comment

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 […]

Wireless HDMI Round-Up

April 26, 2012 by Chris Heinonen Leave a Comment

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 […]

JVC X30 Projector Review

March 19, 2012 by Chris Heinonen Leave a Comment

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 […]

HP ZR2740w Review

March 16, 2012 by Chris Heinonen Leave a Comment

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, 2560×1440 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 […]

Next Page »

Reference Home Theater is Edited and Maintained by Stephen Hornbrook.