All Together Now
Network-ready A/V components have been around for a few years now, but most fail to do much more than provide awkward interfaces for streaming video and music services – hardly a compelling ‘integrated’ experience. But Denon, long hailed in Japan and abroad for a history of audio innovation that stretches back over 100 years, is [...]
Welcome to a new wall of sound
Take the following quiz: You’ve had your ultra-sharp flat-screen TV hanging on the wall like a piece of modern art for years now, but your speakers are still sitting on (choose one): a) the far end of the bookshelf, b) a mantle about 4 inches too shallow, c) mismatched speaker stands, d) the floor.
Where do we go from here?
You have a personal music library that would take two months of straight listening to get through from beginning to end. You subscribe to a dozen online streaming services and can instantly satisfy even the slightest musical whim (like calling up that one song from A-Ha’s second album that you really like but are afraid [...]
The (True) Sound of Music
Believe it or not, there is an entire generation of ‘audio-orphans’ who have never known that music isn’t meant to come out of undersized, mass-produced, plastic boxes. And standing right behind them is a slightly older generation who may know better the virtues of quality speakers, but have been caught in the spell of ‘digital [...]
