Why do so many people think there is magic in electronics?
I have been in this industry since 1979…and I ask myself this question almost every day. What am I talking about you ask? Let me explain…

Is there anyone reading this that thinks a Kia is a direct replacement for a Porsche 911s2? Does anyone believe that a builder selling modular homes is competition for one building 250,000.00 CBS homes? How many of you would trade your I-Pad for a Chinese made copy to save a few dollars?
No takers yet? Hmmmm…Then why is it you will …

Dear Ron,
We are very pleased and proud to announce that the Triton Two has been honored by being selected as THE Audio Product of the Year by Sound & Vision Magazine.
I have capitalized THE because Sound & Vision only gives one Audio Product of the Year Award - and the Triton is the big winner. Not only that, but as you can see by reading the attached award article, Al Griffin had some additional wonderful things to say. I especially liked,
“my experience of listening with them paralleled previous encounters with no-holds-barred speakers-ones priced upwards of $50,000.”
Now this is something truly amazing, …

Dear Ron,
At the end of this E-Mail is a link to download Al Griffin’s glowing review of the Triton Two Tower which appears in the January issue of Sound & Vision. This issue is just now landing on newsstands and subscribers’ doors.
I have certainly received and read many great reviews in the past, but I don’t feel that I am exaggerating when I say that this is absolutely one of the best reviews, if not the best, I’ve ever seen – not just for my own speakers, but also for any audio product.

Ask the Advisors have finally gotten into the headphone business.  Ok not completely true, we have been in the headphone biz for a while…but due to requests from our clients we have expanded our offering dramatically.

So now we should have a headphone for just about everyone.

We are offering these from 2 of the best names in the industry…B&W and Sennheiser.  After doing a lot of listening over the last couple of months these are the ones we decided had the best sound and between the 2 companies we cover just about every use imaginable.
We have …

So how do I write a new blog on yet another Sound Bar? Aren’t there enough of these things around already?
Perhaps this one is different…after all this is the first Sound Bar type speaker developed by B&W (Bowers and Wilkins). B&W as you may or may not know is a very famous speaker manufacturer from England known the world over for two things.

If there’s one thing that drives me crazy, it’s people who don’t listen. (Besides folks who pass on having the pro’s handle car installation)
Let me clarify a bit here… I recently had a client purchase some speakers and express “disappointment” over the fact that they were actually manufactured overseas. This disappointment came despite my explaining to this client that they had purchased a great product by a company that oversaw every aspect of its product’s design and manufacture.

Because of the Holidays and how crazy busy we get around here that time of year we have had no real additions to our blogs for a couple of months now.
Quite surprising to us all is the number of people that have written us and asked us to get going again. It seems that there are a good number of people that actually read and enjoy what we write.
Heck there were even a few people that admitted they learned a few things from us! I cannot tell you how surprised and happy I …

So you are ready to shop for a Home Theater speaker system and you have some questions; probably a lot of them. Hopefully the following information will help.

First, be sure and print out all of the spec sheets on all of the speakers you are thinking of buying. These will make wonderful lining for your birdcage, or make it easy to find packing material the next time you need to ship something fragile someplace. You see most if not virtually all of the specs on a speaker mean little or …

So I got the chance to take a Sonos  multiroom music system home with me last week. I decided to run the full gamut and tried the ZP90, ZP120, and even the new S5. Control was handled by a single CR200 and my trusty iPhone. I got tired of hearing how good it was and I totally expected it to suck, but I didn’t want to bash it without firsthand knowledge.
So I brought the system home and unpacked the “Bundle 250” and got started. The first thing I did, and I recommend you do the same, …

1.) The Soundbar
This is probably the fastest and easiest way to add a surround sound-ish system to your home. Why do I say surround sound-ish? Well because a sound bar does not actually have side or rear speakers, so it is surround-ish. While some units like the Yamaha DSP series attempt to create the sound of additional speakers; they cannot be completely convincing. Other units like the B&W Panorama are designed to provide very good sound quality but really only posses a Left, Center, Right type of configuration; there is no …