home entertainment

I’m not much of an analog audio guy. I like listening to music, but I don’t get so obsessed with sound quality that I try to optimize every single listening second. So I thought that getting into collecting albums on vinyl wouldn’t be for…

It's not exactly easy for a gaming monitor to stand out. Once you hit a few key specs—at least 1440p, 120 Hz, 0.1-ms response time, and a few others—just about any display will do. Some companies combat this by improving their color…

Sometimes you just fall for a sound signature from the moment the first note hits. The midrange is brimming with smooth, mellow-gold detail; the upper register is glistening and clear, with effortless extension; and the bass is clean and…

In a world supersaturated with streaming services, finding a place to watch a live event on TV is still surprisingly not obvious. That's especially true for the Super Bowl. Luckily, there are still a few ways to watch the game live for…

When you walk into a record store, the cassette section (yes, record stores have cassette sections again) won’t be just filled with old cassettes, but rather freshly shrink-wrapped albums from the past week. A format that was once…

Subwoofers seemed elusive to me for many years—only rich people, car people, or audiophiles really dealt with them, and my family fell into none of those categories. After a lifetime of relying on really terrible built-in speakers, my…

In 2018, Zink met with Christopher Nolan, director of Inception, Interstellar, and a trio of Batman films. Nolan offhandedly bemoaned how terrible home TV sets made his movies look, and Zink took on the task of improving that situation as…

Over the past few years of staring into screens, I’ve come to realize that most viewers want a middle-class TV. Maybe not a TV that drives a BMW and lives in a huge McMansion in the suburbs, but one that is a step above industry-average…

I liked the second-generation Apple TV 4K, but I rarely recommended it to anyone except Apple die-hards. Sure, it has a good remote, but it was expensive compared to streaming devices from its peers, like Google, Amazon, and Roku. It didn’t…

Most people are looking for one of two things in a soundbar: the most affordable option or the best-sounding one. While it’s easy to find products that fit one of those criteria, Vizio’s M-Series Elevate tries to meet both.In terms of…