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Beyerdynamic iDX 200 iE In-Ear Headphones
Steve Guttenberg  |  Mar 28, 2017

Performance
Build Quality
Comfort
Value
PRICE $199

AT A GLANCE
Plus
Designed in Germany
Titanium earpieces
Neutral sound balance
Minus
Wish they were a little cheaper

THE VERDICT
At first listen, the Beyerdynamic iDX 200 iE’s charms may not be immediately obvious, but over time you’ll start to realize how good they are.

When you listen to as many headphones as I do, you start to notice trends. The first and most obvious one is bass, and there’s usually too much of it. Next, headphones look and feel so similar, you start to think most of them, but especially in-ear headphones, are all made in the same factory in China. That may or may not be true, and yes, the Beyerdynamic iDX 200 iE is Chinese made, but it was designed by Beyerdynamic’s engineers in Germany.

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Audio Video NewsNew Products
Yamaha Announces New Entry-Level AV Receivers
SV Staff  |  Mar 28, 2017
Yamaha has added four new models to its entry-level RX-V series of AV receivers at prices ranging from $300 to $650.
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Audio Video NewsNew Products
Vizio Unveils New Entry-Level Smart TVs
SV Staff  |  Mar 28, 2017
Vizio today introduced a dozen new smart TVs in its entry-level D-Series, ranging in price from $140 for a 24-inch HD model to $900 for a 65-inch Ultra HDTV.
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Audio Video News
Yes Looks Back and Forward as its Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Nears
SV Staff  |  Mar 28, 2017
Photo: Glenn Gottlieb. Logo: Roger Dean c.2016.

As the members of Yes prepare for their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Class of 2017 next Friday (April 7) at the Barclay's Center in Brooklyn, NY, drummer Alan White looks back on the band's nearly 50-year history and what's still to come for one of the world's most influential, ground-breaking, and respected progressive rock bands.

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Signals
Will Your Headphones Explode?
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Mar 28, 2017
Perhaps you remember the story from two weeks ago. A woman (pictured) wearing headphones on a plane was burned when the headphones exploded and caught fire. The woman was relatively okay, but it's never good when a piece of gear catches fire, especially when it's on a plane and especially if it's near your face. With the rise of battery-powered headphones, are in-ear explosions yet another thing to worry about?

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Audio Video NewsNew Products
Onkyo Intros Entry-Level AVR with Auto Set-Up
SV Staff  |  Mar 27, 2017
Onkyo today introduced an entry-level 5.2-channel AV receiver with automatic room calibration that sells for $349.
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NAD’s Chromecast-Enabled Class D Amp Now Available
SV Staff  |  Mar 27, 2017
NAD’s C 338 Class D integrated amp, hailed as the first “hi-fi amplifier” to feature built-in Chromcast streaming capability, is now available for $649, the company announced.
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Home Movie Theaters
Daily Double: A Theater Hides Behind This Music Setup
Rob Sabin  |  Mar 24, 2017
Photos by Jomar Bragança

Sometimes, you have to go big. And that’s just what one young power couple did when they built their dream home in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte, a teeming metropolis that sits about a six-hour drive north of the Rio de Janeiro coast. To be more precise, they went 50,000 square feet big. With that area, the modern two-story residence shown in these photos, if laid flat, would cover the size of an American-style football field (minus a couple of end zones).

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Punch-Drunk Love
Fred Kaplan  |  Mar 24, 2017
Picture
Sound
Extras
I was thrilled with Punch-Drunk Love when it came out: such loopy energy, zigzag surprises, so preposterous but insouciantly so oddly appealing—a mess but a dazzling mess, like most of P.T. Anderson’s movies. A decade-and-a-half later, it’s lost a lot of its punch. I don’t know if I’ve changed, if imitations have sucked out its novelty, or what, but its shortcomings now shine too clearly. Adam Sandler plays a plumbing-parts salesman who’s out on the spectrum (a bit of Benjamin Braddock crossed with Rain Man), who’s never traveled or had a girlfriend, who’s always been tormented by seven playful sisters who don’t know the madness they’re inflicting.
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Audio Video News
March Madness App Offers Virtual Courtside Seats
SV Staff  |  Mar 24, 2017
Fans of college basketball will be able to experience March Madness in virtual reality, starting with tonight’s Sweet 16 semifinal games in San Jose.
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