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Video Artist Uses OLED to Display ‘Spooky Actions’
SV Staff  |  Feb 17, 2020
Video artist David Van Eyssen used side-by-side OLED TVs to display his latest “sound and motion” creation over the weekend at the Los Angeles 2020 Frieze Art Fair.
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Signals
Is it Dumb to Buy Smart Audio/Video Devices?
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Feb 17, 2020
Okay. I get it. Contemporary electronic devices are more powerful than old-timey electronic devices. A software engineer recently estimated that a USB-C charger has more computing power than the guidance computer on the Apollo capsules that took men to the moon (shown above). Awesome. But I still have an axe to grind.

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Audio Video NewsNew Products
Audio-Technica: Wood Makes a Difference in Headphones
SV Staff  |  Feb 17, 2020
Apart from looking beautiful, does making a headphone’s ear cups out of wood make a difference sonically? Audio-Technica thinks so.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Parasite
Josef Krebs  |  Feb 14, 2020
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Winner of the Cannes Palme d'Or and Academy Awards for Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, and International Feature, director, co-producer, and co-writer Bong Joon Ho's classist farce, Parasite, focuses on the Kims, a family of poor but proud con artists. Presently scrabbling to get by on lowest-paid jobs in a bug-infested basement apartment in Seoul, South Korea, they dream of climbing up to a better life by tricking the rich using flattery, charm, and well-rehearsed scripts.
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Audio Video NewsNew Products
New Sanus Bracket Integrates Soundbar and TV
SV Staff  |  Feb 14, 2020
Sanus has announced the availability of a universal bracket designed to suspend a soundbar beneath a wall-mounted TV.
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Audio Video News
Take 35% Off this Atmos Soundbar System
SV Staff  |  Feb 14, 2020
Vizio offered us a peak at a few current and forthcoming deals on TVs and soundbars, including dueling 35%-off deals on a four-piece soundbar system.
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Audio Video NewsNew Products
HiFiMan's New Planar Headphones Support Wireless Hi-Res Streaming
SV Staff  |  Feb 13, 2020
The headphones specialists at New York-based HiFiMan have introduced a follow-up to last year’s popular Ananda-BT headphones that supports wireless high-resolution streaming.
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SmartStream
Quibi Short-Form Videos Coming to Mobile Phones
Barb Gonzalez  |  Feb 13, 2020
Is short-form video the future of entertainment? Jeffrey Katzenberg, former chairman of Walt Disney studios, co-founder of DreamWorks Animation, and the brainchild behind Quibi (pronounced "kwibee"), thinks so. In case you haven’t heard, Quibi — short for “quick bites” — is an app built to deliver high-quality, short videos to your mobile phone for watching while you’re on the go and time is limited — like when you’re sitting in a waiting room or standing at a bus stop.
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The S&V Interview
British Invasion Pioneer Dave Clark: Still ‘Glad All Over’
Mike Mettler  |  Feb 13, 2020
Mike Mettler sits down with Dave Clark, the innovative drummer and savvy businessman who helmed The Dave Clark Five, the one band that most consistently gave The Beatles a run for their money on the pop charts during the heyday of The British Invasion in the 1960s.
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Surround Sound System ReviewsTower Speaker Reviews
Aperion Audio Novus 5.0.2 Speaker System Review
Thomas J. Norton  |  Feb 12, 2020

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Features
Build Quality
Value
PRICE $2,995

AT A GLANCE
Plus
Natural dialogue Detailed without sounding aggressive Great Value
Minus
Limited deep bass

THE VERDICT
This Aperion Audio Novus system delivers great sound with music and, when combined with a good subwoofer or two, enough visceral thrills to keep up with the most sonically ambitious movie soundtracks.

Aperion Audio had a dilemma. Its flagship speaker line, the Aperion Verus III, costs considerably more than its entry level Intimus range, with the $2,500 flagship Verus III Grand tower selling for nearly three times the price of the $800/pair Intimus 5t tower. Both are bargains in high-end audio's accelerating race to the top, but buyers who might spend more than $800 aren't always keen about making a $2,500 commitment, not to mention the added outlay needed for a full home theater speaker setup. Enter the company's new Novus range, which at $1,400/pair for the Novus towers neatly splits the difference between the two existing ranges.

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