All Articles Tagged Surround Sound

Robert Archer | 03/13 03:25 AM,

The audio company MK Sound has developed one of the most loyal dealer bases in the entire consumer electronics industry. Not too long ago the company added to its product line to further help its loyal dealer base to meet their clients' needs through the introduction of its 950 Series of freestanding loudspeakers. MK says the new speaker line is positioned to sit between its 150 loudspeaker series and its 750 series of products, and the line includes a choice of bookshelf and floorstanding models that are currently undergoing testing… View this story

Robert Archer | 03/01 04:41 AM,

The British loudspeaker manufacturer Tannoy has an extensive history of developing products for the professional audio market and the high-performance consumer market, and recently the company announced that it has taken its engineering power and designed a compact speaker solution for the home theater market. Tannoy's new Technical FXcellence (TFX) line of compact speaker products are designed to resolve the detail of today's lossless surround sound formats, as well as high-resolution digital audio files. To accomplish the task of reproducing the detail of today's consumer audio formats the company employs… View this story

Robert Archer | 10/10 08:25 AM, 5 Comments

Despite the heavy emphasis on video over the past 15 years, the evolutions of home audio and video have actually taken nearly identical paths. Looking back on the home A/V market in the mid 1990s the industry began a transition away from the VCR and its low-resolution video and Dolby Pro Logic audio technologies into the DVD optical disc format. As everyone knows the DVD format offered consumers an improved picture with 480 lines of resolution and progressive deinterlacing options. It also offered a choice of audio formats that included… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 11/30 07:34 AM, 3 Comments

Sonos, the company that brought us one of the best whole-house wireless music systems ever, seems to be eying the home theater market. The company is hiring a senior product manager, home theater sound. From the Careers section of Sonos.com: Sonos is looking for a successful, experienced home entertainment product leader to help us re-invent home theater sound for the digital age. We are looking for someone with a passion for home theater sound who wants to drive new concepts into a shipping reality. You will lead the product vision… View this story