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AV Excellence: Our Curated Top Picks for 2025
Mark Henninger  |  Apr 24, 2025  |  First Published: Mar 28, 2025
Looking ahead, we've refreshed our Sound & Vision Top Picks list to better reflect how AV enthusiasts shop today. There are numerous excellent product evaluation sites online, all diligently testing the equipment we consider for inclusion in our lists.

Year after year, these sources typically arrive at a consensus—though the concept of labeling a single product as "best" remains inherently subjective. After all, what might be "best" for one person's budget and preferences may not align perfectly with another's needs. Some products stand out for their top performance, but they usually have high prices.

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Audio Video News
Kaleidescape Joins 8K Association
Mark Henninger  |  Apr 24, 2025
Movie-server specialist Kaleidescape has signed on as the newest member of the 8K Association (8KA), a trade group that promotes standards and best practices for ultra-high-definition video. The move places the California-based company alongside display makers, chipset suppliers, and content providers working to accelerate an 8K ecosystem.
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New Products
Bowers & Wilkins Introduces Px7 S3 Noise-Cancelling Headphones
Mark Henninger  |  Apr 24, 2025
Bowers & Wilkins (B&W) has announced the Px7 S3, a third-generation over-ear model that the company positions as its “most advanced and capable” wireless headphone to date. The new design replaces 2023’s Px7 S2e and brings several firsts to the line, including a discrete on-board headphone amplifier, an upgraded eight-microphone active-noise-cancellation (ANC) system, and upcoming support for both spatial-audio processing and Bluetooth LE Audio with Auracast broadcast mode.
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Home Movie Theaters
Beyond the Glow: Inside VIP Home Theaters’ Ambitious Dream
Mark Henninger  |  Apr 20, 2025
It's the last day of AXPONA 2025. Late on Sunday afternoon, somewhere between exhaustion and curiosity, I was camped on the Renaissance Convention Center carpet when a father‑and‑daughter team approached. Tom Adamczyk and his daughter Monica weren’t exhibiting; but they were sponsors. They urged me to leave the show and audition a “world‑class” private cinema they’d built under their design/build outfit, VIP Home Theaters. Their pitch: We don’t just design the room—we build the speakers, too.
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4K TV ReviewsOLED TV ReviewsTV Reviews
Samsung 77" S95F 4K + One Connect Box Review: Brightest QD‑OLED Yet
Greg Tarr  |  Apr 18, 2025

Performance
Features
Ergonomics
Value
PRICE $4499

AT A GLANCE
Plus
Ultra‑bright picture for an OLED display
100 % DCI‑P3 wide‑color‑gamut coverage
Improved matte‑black anti‑reflective screen
Advanced gaming features with low input lag
Minus
No ATSC 3.0 NextGen TV tuner
No Dolby Vision HDR
Slight blooming in certain dark scenes

THE VERDICT
This series continues to step up the brightness game of QD‑OLED technology and features an excellent “glare‑free” screen that sets this model apart from competitors. In our opinion, the Samsung S95F is one of the best televisions we’ve tested and offers a bargain for OLED technology of this performance level.

The flagship 77-inch QN77S95F is the fourth generation of Samsung's popular hybrid quantum dot OLED television, now offering even brighter peak HDR10 highlights ranging up to almost 4,000 nits under the right conditions.

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Ultra HD Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The Brutalist 4K
Chris Chiarella  |  Apr 17, 2025
The Brutalist
Picture
Sound
Extras

Filmmaker Brady Corbet seeks to conjure movies of a bygone era in more ways than one with his latest, The Brutalist. Perhaps most notably, he and director of photography Lol Crawley resurrected the defunct large‑format VistaVision process, supplanted years ago by IMAX.

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Wide Angle
FAST Times: The Rise of Free Ad-Supported Television
Mark Henninger  |  Apr 15, 2025
Free, ad-supported television (FAST) services began to take root in the early-to-mid 2010s, when a handful of pioneering platforms set out to recreate the linear TV experience in a streaming environment. Pluto TV was one of the first to offer curated, round-the-clock channels, initially focusing on reruns and older content but quickly finding an audience that appreciated the familiarity of a “live” feed.
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Love Hurts
Ralph Potts  |  Apr 14, 2025  |  First Published: Apr 15, 2025
Love Hurts
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Love Hurts is an action thriller that tells the story of Marvin, a mild-mannered Milwaukee realtor that rides his bicycle to work, bakes cookies for his clients, and shares a close relationship with his real estate mentor, Cliff. His idyllic life is thrown into chaos on Valentines Day when he receives a crimson envelope from Rose, a former crime associate, that he left in his past.

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Ultra HD Blu-ray Movie Reviews
A Complete Unknown 4K Review
Ralph Potts  |  Apr 09, 2025
A Complete Unknown
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A Complete Unknown is set in 1961, against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene, and tumultuous cultural upheaval. An enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota named Bob Dylan, arrives with his guitar, and revolutionary talent. He forges intimate relationships with music icons of Greenwich Village, setting him on his meteoric rise, which culminates in a groundbreaking performance that reverberates around the world.

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Samsung 75" QN990F TV Review: A Wireless Leap to 8K
Greg Tarr  |  Apr 09, 2025
The QN75QN990F Neo QLED is Samsung's 2025 flagship 8K mini-LED LCD TV series that once again brings the company’s greatest package of smart TV features and top-level picture and sound performance to the living room, but this year it adds a Wireless One Connect set-top box.
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