Home Theater Geeks (Audio)

PK doesn't watch movies or TV shows, only sports. He's moving and wants to know which TV technology is best for sports in his new place. Scott Wilkinson has the answer!

Host: Scott Wilkinson

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Listener Dane is an AV engineer who works in the professional realm. In building his home theater, he wants to use some of the equipment he's familiar with but doesn't want to spend an arm and a leg on a professional Dolby Atmos decoder. What does Scott Wilkinson recommend?

Host: Scott Wilkinson

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Acoustically treating a room normally involves bulky panels and other passive materials that must be very large and thick to affect low frequencies. But a new technology could do away with all that, replacing it with super-thin panels that use ionized air to perfectly tame the acoustics of any room.

• New Atlas: Plasma-based noise cancellation could silence rooms, cars and planes

https://newatlas.com/technology/ionized-air-noise-reduction/

• EIN NewsWire: Sonexos Partners With EPFL to Advance Plasma-based Active Sound-Absorbing Technology

https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/638104654/sonexos-partners-with-epfl-to-advance-plasma-based-active-sound-absorbing-technology

• Nature Communications technical paper

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-38522-5

Host: Scott Wilkinson

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Listener John thought he heard Scott Wilkinson say that the Sony X95L LCD TV is the best flat panel on the market today. More recently, he heard Scott say that the Sony A95L is the best. Which is it? Scott tries to clear up any confusion.

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Scott Wilkinson continues his discussion with Mike Heiss about what he saw at CES 2024. One of the big stories was transparent TVs, along with UST projectors, NextGen OTA broadcasting, and a few miscellaneous items of interest to home theater geeks.

Host: Scott Wilkinson

Guest: Michael Heiss

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Scott Wilkinson chats with Mike Heiss about what he saw at CES 2024. In part 1, Mike talks about how TVs are now vehicles for ads and commerce, how AI was everywhere at the show, and how TVs are getting even bigger.

Host: Scott Wilkinson

Guest: Michael Heiss

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High-resolution audio is defined as digital audio captured at a higher sample rate and/or with more bit depth than CDs. Is it worth the extra cost of buying it? Scott has some strong opinions on this subject!

Host: Scott Wilkinson

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Jimmy's house was pre-wired for speakers in the living room, four of them close to the ceiling. He has some questions about his situation, including which on-wall speakers to get. Scott Wilkinson has the answers!

ELAC Debut 2.0 OW4.2 On-Wall Speakers: https://amzn.to/41HWuyK
ELAC Muro OW-V41S On-Wall Speakers: https://www.elac.com/category/ci-on-wall/muro-lcr-owv41s/
GoldenEar SuperSat 3 and 3C: https://www.goldenear.com/on-wall-speakers/super-sat-series/super-sat-3-satellite
GoldenEar ForceField 3: https://www.goldenear.com/subwoofers/forcefield-series/forcefield-3
SVS SB-1000 Pro Subwoofer: https://amzn.to/47fUMWF
ELAC Debut 2.0 10″ Powered Subwoofer S10.2: https://amzn.to/48jcDxc

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Scarsdale, NY, retailer Value Electronics hosts an annual TV shootout in which the flagship 4K and 8K models from major manufacturers are lined up, calibrated, and evaluated by a panel of expert judges to see which is the best. Robert Zohn, owner of Value Electronics, Jason Dustal, one of the calibrators, and David Mackenzie, one of the judges, join Scott Wilkinson to discuss day one of this year's event and reveal the King of 4K TV.

Host: Scott Wilkinson

Guests: Robert Zohn, David Mackenzie, and Jason Dustal

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TVs have gotten very smart—too smart for their own good, in fact. To see the best possible picture quality, you should really disable many of the controls that purport to improve it, but in reality, they make it worse. Scott talks about the controls that you should disable to get the best possible picture quality.

Host: Scott Wilkinson

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