Bring Your Entertainment Vision to Life With the Best Home Theater Installer
A home theater is defined as a space designed to deliver a high-quality viewing and listening experience. The process consists of planning, designing, and installing all the components of the home theater, including the speakers, television, and all sound systems. The installation process typically starts with a best home theater installer and system design. Once the dimensions and characteristics of the room are established, there fol ... Read More.
Bring Better Audio-Visual Experiences With Restaurant and Bar AV System Installation
An audio-visual system that’s set up properly can greatly influence how people perceive a restaurant or bar. Good sound quality, images that work well together, reliable controls, and good positioning enable the establishment to operate in an organized and entertaining manner. The role of technology is equally important when it comes to arranging live events, wa ... Read More.
AXPONA 2025 Sight And Sounds
August 21st, 2025
By: Carlin "Rick" Smith
A little later that normal posting about the yearly AXPONA 2025 show. The AXPONA 2025 show occurred in April and I was there Saturday. Weather was beautiful once again. AXPONA organizers stated that attendance was the highest ever. Below are some pictures and there are many others out there from various sources.
Look forward ... Read More.
AXPONA 2024 Sight And Sounds
April 19th, 2024
By: Carlin "Rick" Smith
The AXPONA 2024 show has come to end and I was there Friday. Weather was beautiful and show seemed to have great attendance and vibe this year. Below are some pictures and there are many others out there from various sources.
It is always great to catch up with so many from the various vendors, distributors face to face. There was a lot of ... Read More.
AXPONA 2023 Sight And Sounds
April 19th, 2023
By: Carlin "Rick" Smith
The AXPONA 2023 show has come to end and I was there Friday. Happy to report the show seemed back to pre-COVID levels of vendors and attendance. I am sure it helped to have a sunny 75 degree day in Chicago at this tinme of year. Below are some pictures and there are many others out there from various sources.
It is always great to catch up ... Read More.
Rocky Mountain Audio Fest - Cancels 2021 Show and Ceases Operations
September 3rd, 2021
By: Carlin "Rick" Smith
The pandemic certainly has taken its toll in so many ways and high end audio has certainly not escaped this impact. The normal spring show, AXPONA, which last occurred in 2019 has been postponed to spring of 2022. Now the show that has been with us for over fifteen years and was scheduled for ear ... Read More.
Exploring the Aurender ACS100 CD-Ripping Process
April 10th, 2021
By: Carlin "Rick" Smith
Background
It's been a while since I have written a new article but decided to sit down and share my thoughts on how Aurender digital transports capable of CD-Ripping work. This would include as of date of this article three models - A30, ACS10, and ACS100. For ... Read More.
32-bit Floating Point DXD - Format of Merit?
August 7th, 2020
By: Carlin "Rick" Smith
I came across a blog article from Brendon Heinst from TRPTK of The Netherlands. I found the math and theory behind this fascinating. I was hoping I could take a listen on my reference gear but after a few emails back and forth with Brendon we came t ... Read More.
Creating and Archiving Playlists External to your Aurender
August 11th, 2019
By: Carlin "Rick" Smith
Introduction
On July 27th Aurender released the much anticipated version 3 of their Conductor application. While the update was probably most important for the visual overhaul of the user interface there were a few other new features that caught my attention. Conductor V3 also included the ability to backup or r ... Read More.
Two Weeks with The Bel Canto e.One Stream and Roon
May 12th, 2019
By: Carlin "Rick" Smith
We recently had a customer request the Bel Canto e.One Stream so we ordered a demo unit. I thought I would share some thoughts about using it with the native Seek app and also in conjuction with Roon. Both were new experiences for me as I personally use Aurender music servers. While there is similarity the devices, both can ... Read More.
