Sound & Vision - December 2009 for iPad
Year: 2009
Issue: December
Country: US
Language: English
Format magazine: True PDF
Pages: 100 pages
Size: 15.5 Mb
About Sound & Vision on iPad:
Sound & Vision magazine is your authoritative source of information about home theater, audio, video and multimedia products. Every issue of Sound & Vision brings you advice about buying and using equipment, choosing components and creating a state-of-the-art home theater. Plus, you also get the latest technological advances, movie and music news and reviews, along with a comprehensive annual buyer's guide.
Content issue Sound & Vision - December 2009:
GREAT GIFTS ‘09 Experts’ Guide Our fifth annual hands-on guide will steer you clear of holiday hype $3K Home Theater Brent Butterworth compiles a budget-minded high-end audio/video system that puts a theatrical video experience first Boxes in Brief Blu-ray, DVD, and CD boxed-set options for one and all on your list FEATURES 38 MUSIC IN SURROUND Twin Kings of Different Eras Ken Richardson reviews three early King Crimson albums remixed in 5.1 by Porcupine Tree’s Steven Wilson, plus PT’s latest 5.1 offering, The Incident 21st Century Mixing Man Steven Wilson explains how he remixed King Crimson for 5.1 Wilson’s Wishes 20 surround mixes that he’d love to do Damn the Two Channels! Tom Petty talks exclusively about the surround mix on the Blu-ray Disc included in The Live Anthology boxed set DEPARTMENTS 06 TRACK ONE Get thee surrounded By Mike Mettler 08 FEEDBACK Readers discuss our redesign 12 THE TECH ZONE The latest cool new products 80 EDITORS’ PICKS Top Certified & Recommended gear, plus Reference Discs EXPERTISE 16 THE CUSTOM INSTALLER John Sciacca recounts the new products he saw at the recent CEDIA trade show in Atlanta, including the latest in 3-D and LED, ever-slimmer speakers, and smarter remotes 18 Q&A Al Griffin answers your questions about our new test-report ratings system and how to plug a turntable into an A/V receiver 20 GADGET GARY Gary Dell’Abate discovers the wonders of the Powermat, a charging pad for all of your wireless devices 96 THE FINAL CUT Ken C. Pohlmann is feeling a little green for the holidays and wonders if you’re as Grinchy as a Griswold when it comes to energy consumption TEST REPORTS 54 MITSUBISHI Unisen LT-46153 46-inch LCD HDTV 58 SAMSUNG SP-A900B front projector 62 PSB Image Series speaker system 66 B&W Panorama soundbar 72 NAD T785 A/V receiver 76 YAMAHA YMC-700 neoHD media controller ENTERTAINMENT 81 MOVIES & TV Ken Burns makes his Blu-ray debut with the quite apropos series on The National Parks, featuring 12 hours of grand footage PLUS Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Monsters vs. Aliens, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and The Proposal on Blu-ray Disc; Chinatown (replenished again) and Away We Go on DVD; and seven ways to have yourself a (mostly) merry Blu-ray Christmas 84 MUSIC Ho-ho-holiday offerings from Bob Dylan, Sting, and Tori Amos PLUS The Flaming Lips, Alice in Chains, and even more surround! 86 GAMES The arcade-style gameplay of Heroes over Europe gets you right into the action, but is that enough to keep you flying high?
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