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Headphone Reviews
Periodic Audio Mg, Ti, and Be In-Ear Headphones
Steve Guttenberg  |  Oct 31, 2017
Ti In-Ear Headphones
Performance
Build Quality
Comfort
Value
Be In-Ear Headphones
Performance
Build Quality
Comfort
Value

Mg In-Ear Headphone
Performance
Build Quality
Comfort
Value
PRICE $99, $199, $299

AT A GLANCE
Plus
Clear sound, great bass
Five-year warranty
Now made in the U.S.
Minus
Tangle-prone cable
No phone controls

THE VERDICT
Periodic Audio’s three in-ear headphones—the Mg, Ti, and Be—may only differ in the driver material but sound more different than you might expect.

Periodic Audio is a brand-new company that launched with just three in-ear headphones, the Mg (Magnesium), the Ti (Titanium), and the Be (Beryllium), for $99, $199, and $299, respectively. The three headphones look nearly the same, differing only in the color of the earpiece end caps. The Mg and Ti are similar shades of silver, while the Be is gold. The three models’ 10mm drivers are all mechanically exactly the same but differ in their diaphragm materials—magnesium, titanium, and beryllium—so it made sense to look at all three models as a group.

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Audio Video News
KEF Adds Spotify Connect to LS50W Wireless Speaker
SV Staff  |  Oct 31, 2017
KEF has announced the addition of Spotify Connect to the LS50W wireless speaker ($2,200/pair) introduced in January at CES 2017 as part of the brand’s 55th anniversary celebration.
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Signals
What’s In a Name?
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Oct 31, 2017
“The Quality Goes in Before the Name Goes On.” If you are of a certain age, that trademarked slogan is imprinted in your brain. It was marketed relentlessly. And it was a darn good slogan. It assured you that any product with the company’s name on it was of high quality. It also redirected your attention to the importance of the name of the company itself; you didn’t need to know anything else about the product; the company’s name ensured that it was good. My, how times have changed.
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Audio Video News
Dolby Likes to Watch You Watch
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 30, 2017
Dolby Laboratories wants to know exactly how viewers respond to its HDR, surround sound, or color palette technologies while watching a movie. So Dolby’s chief scientist and neurophysiologist Poppy Crum has been running 15 to 20 experiments per day in which volunteers sit on a couch attached to brain monitors, heart rate monitors, galvanic skin response sensors, thermal imaging cameras, and lie detectors.
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Audio Video News
Report: Half of U.S. Homes Subscribe to Pay TV Plus At Least 1 Video Streaming Service
SV Staff  |  Oct 30, 2017
Courtesy of Parks Associates

New research from Parks Associates shows that 53 percent of U.S. broadband households subscribe to both a pay-TV service and at least one OTT (over the top) video streaming service, chosen from a field with more than 200 active services.

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Audio Video NewsNew Products
New Ceiling Speaker Designed for Big Bass, Max SPL
SV Staff  |  Oct 30, 2017
James Loudspeaker has added a high-output in-ceiling speaker to its Small Aperture (SA) line of architectural speakers.
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Audio Video News
Ovation Celebrates 30th Anniversary with 4-Day Event
SV Staff  |  Oct 27, 2017
Ovation Audio + Video is celebrating its 30th anniversary with four days of special events at its Indianapolis showroom.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Blow-Up
Josef Krebs  |  Oct 27, 2017
Picture
Sound
Extras
Auteur Michelangelo Antonioni set his story of a photographer who gradually looses perspective in the perfect place—swinging London of 1966. In the course of his jam-packed day, the freewheeling image-obsessed artist goes undercover in a shelter to snap pictures of homeless men, physically invades the spaces of various vacuous fashion models, and stakes out a couple in the park to capture pictures of their private, intimate moments.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Ronin
Brandon A. DuHamel  |  Oct 27, 2017
Picture
Sound
Extras
Ronin is director John Frankenheimer’s 1998 crime thriller, with a script co-written by David Mamet (under a pen name) and featuring an all-star cast headlined by Robert De Niro and Jean Reno. This gritty film borrows heavily from classic genre predecessors such as The French Connection, Le Cercle Rouge, and Bullitt. It follows a former U.S. intelligence agent (De Niro) working with a group of mercenaries trying to track down a package being pursued by both Irish and Russian interests.
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Editor's Eye
Train Rec: Confusion Abounds Over Color Gamut
Rob Sabin  |  Oct 27, 2017
Courtesy of Imaging Science Foundtion

If you ever wonder what the geeks at Sound & Vision do when we’re not listening to new speakers or tuning up video displays, well, we’re probably debating some arcane technical detail that most non-enthusiast mortals would neither understand nor care about. And so it was that a rather fired-up exchange of e-mails occurred recently between myself, video technical editor Tom Norton, and our contributing technical editor Kris Deering.

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