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Apple's tvOS 26 beta arrives with a new look, new features, and more prominent user profiles. Here's a hands-on take.
Paradigm’s PW Amp can stream high-res audio while correcting your speakers’ and room’s acoustic shortcomings. Canada-based Paradigm has a long, respected pedigree in the high-end audio world ...
The new HomePod supports Matter, the standard that promises to get rid of walled gardens, but this smart speaker won’t let you entirely escape Apple’s.
Walmart’s $30 Android TV streamer should make Roku and Amazon sweat. If you’re wondering which company makes the best streaming players for the least amount of money, you might not expect the ...
Ambient Weather’s WS-5000 home weather station is a significant improvement over its earlier and excellent WS-2902. It’s worth the extra cash if you can afford it. We’ve observed a dramatic ...
Stoneside makes beautiful and luxurious motorized window shades, but its third-party smart technology is not quite as good as what its top competitor offers. The do-it-yourself approach to buying ...
The Nucleus is a superb—but very expensive—platform for running Roon Labs' marvelous Roon music server software.
The Sonos Amp is a great-sounding and supremely flexible amplifier that's a superb choice for your home theater or for critical listening. And it will drive just about any type of passive ...
Samsung sure upped the ante with the HW-Q950A, a soundbar that arrives with a room-enveloping 11.1.4-channel configuration powered by a whopping 22 drivers. Not quite as big and hulking as you ...
This shade’s motor uses power-over-ethernet to deliver twin benefits: Speedy operation and simpler installation requirements. But it’ll cost you. The smart shades I’ve reviewed to date have ...
Hey, we dig Sonos Radio, but you don’t need a Sonos speaker to enjoy internet radio. Allow us to be your guide to this fabulous resource.
You’ll find our October 2023 review of Hunter Douglas Duette shades with the company’s third -generation PowerView technology at the preceding link. Both reviews are part of TechHive’s in ...