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 ...

Variety is said to be the spice of life. Why only eat cherry Starbursts when you can sample orange, watermelon, lemon, etc? The same applies to multi-channel surround sound upmixers. But the folks at ...

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 ...

Barco has scored a hit in the immersive audio turf war previewed at April’s CinemaCon. Global chain Cinemark is siding with the open sound format employed by Barco’s Auro 11.1 over competitor Dolby ...

The odds are pretty good that you haven’t heard a film in Dolby Atmos yet. Fewer than 200 movie screens worldwide are equipped with the three-dimensional sound system so far, about half of them in ...

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 ...

Arcam is upgrading its latest AV receivers with some natty 3D sound tech. The AVR10, AVR20 and AVR30 (pictured) will get Auro-3D, as will Arcam's AV40 AV processor. Arcam’s latest software updates ...