Onkyo TX-NR3007 Home Theater Receiver

It’s been awhile since I’ve had the opportunity to play with a new AV receiver and I must say that things have definitely progressed of late. This Onkyo gem has more bells and whistles than ever but the great thing about it is that it was easy to set up...

OutCast Wireless Outdoor Speaker System

Review – OutCast Wireless Outdoor Speaker System Author: Bob Hetherington I pulled it out of the box and in about 10 minutes had a new and very full bodied speaker out on the patio playing music from my ipod. Not only that … I can control the ipod from the...

KEF Five-Two Series Home Theater Speakers

Surround Sound with only two speakers in the room … that is the claim of KEF with their 5-2 series. We wanted to find out for ourselves if this was an effective way to get the bang for the buck without a room full of boxes so KEF sent us a pair of Model...

Maxtor Shared Storage II

Can you ever have enough storage? It seems that every year we need to add more to hold all of those great media files, backups and who knows what next. At CEDIA this year I was walking by a small booth on the floor and noticed a nice looking little box sitting on the...

Simplifi 5075D Digital Amplifier

Since I set up the HomeToys Small Spaces Demo using a Media Center I have been looking at the under-utilized Home Theater Receiver that I had to use just to amplify the 5.1 speaker system. The Windows Media Center takes care of everything else. At that time I looked...