This year I, along with fellow Audioholic Cliff Heyne, was lucky enough to attend the CEDIA Expo in Denver. If you’ve not been keeping track of A/V industry news, the “big thing” for 2014 is the ...

Mahwah, N.J. — The number of audio components capable of decoding Dolby Atmos and Auro-3D is growing, with D+M Group’s Denon and Marantz brands each planning an Auro3D firmware upgrade to select ...

Thanks to a series of announcements from A/V heavyweights Yamaha, Marantz, and Denon, home-theater owners are getting more and more immersive-audio options: Yamaha announced its first DTS:X firmware ...

We thought we didn’t have to worry about competing home-entertainment formats anymore like we did during the Beta/VHS, CD/DAT and DCC/MiniDisc competitions. Thanks to digital technology, suppliers ...

One of the highlights from our CEDIA trip each year is listening to demos from manufacturers. Immersive Audio was abound at the show and it came in many forms via discrete box speakers all around, ...

Dolby Atmos and DTS:X might be the two best-known names behind object-based surround sound — also known as 3D surround sound — but they’re not the only ones. Auro-3D has actually been around longer ...

While the biz has been buzzing about plans for a new “Star Wars” trilogy, the usually sleepy world of theatrical movie sound has been ramping up for a format war. Auro-3D, which has up to 12 channels, ...

Surround sound has come a long way since its inception, but for the most part it has remained relatively “flat” in that while you’ll hear sounds from in front, left, right, and behind you, in real ...

Services to share this page. The battle over next-generation “immersive audio” is afoot, even if its top two major competitors are playing nice on the surface. For now. NATO’s pushing the theatrical ...

Denon has just announced an improved version of its Denon AVC-X8500H flagship AV Amplifier, the Denon AVC-X8500HA. The new receiver features 13 channels and 210W of amplification. All the latest 3D ...