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DALI’s New Grand Vokal Center Speaker Boasts High Output, NOT High Price DALI’s new Grand Vokal ($1,000) is designed for large rooms, offering more output (111dB SPL) and higher power handling. It should be a perfect match for DALI’s Oberon tower speakers.

Wilson Audio WASAE Center Speaker Saves Space at a BIG Price The Wilson Audio WASAE Center speaker ($9,500) is a space saver for a premium price. It uses the same 5.75" mid-woofer and 1" soft-dome Convergent Synergy MK5 tweeter as larger Wilsons. Read on.

New Scalable AURO-CX Audio Codec Demoed at CES 2024 AURO is back with a new, next-gen audio codec called AURO-CX. The folks behind AURO-3D say that AURO-CX delivers scalable quality, channel count, sample rate, and objects, in one powerful bitstream.

New Firmware for PAC AVRs Adds Roon, Auro 3D, Improved Dirac & More The Integra DRX-8.4, Onkyo TX-RZ70, and Pioneer Elite VSX-LX805 are now Roon Ready, and support Auro 3D. Dirac Live also gets an upgrade and you can stream Spatial Audio directly to your AVR!

Apple Music To Offer Dolby Atmos Incentive To Artists, Record Labels Apple Music will reportedly pay higher royalties for streams of songs offered in Dolby Atmos. This incentive could encourage more artists and record labels to embrace the format.

A/V In A Briefcase? The Focal P60 Porsche Kit and the LG StanbyME Go Both the Focal P60 Limited Edition Utopia loudspeaker kit for Porsche 911 cars and the LG StanbyME Go portable 27-inch entertainment screen boast an unusual cool-factor. Read on.

Rockford Fosgate Roof Audio System For Polaris Ranger All-Terrain Vehicles The Rockford Fosgate Ranger Roof Audio System is an all-in-one audio solution for Polaris Ranger ATVs. Available for both two-seater and four-seater Ranger models. Read on.

MartinLogan Motion XT F100 New Year's Speaker Giveaway! MartinLogan's Motion XT F100 Giveaway, free to enter, free shipping to receive your prize. This is your chance to WIN Audioholics Best of 2023, by the legendary MartinLogan speaker company.

AV Companies Didn’t See a Post-COVID Correction Coming The way we consume goods and services changed during the pandemic, but now that supply chains are back to normal will the global marketplace ever be the same? Read how this impacts our AV hobby.

New Apple Watch Infringes Denon/B&W Parent, Masimo's IP Apple ordered to stop sales of Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 for IP infringement of Masimo (parent company of Denon, Marantz, B&W;) health monitoring technology. Will the two tech companies settle?