Audio Advice

When you’re reading a book, you create images of the story in your mind. You envision how the characters and settings appear. Movies and TV aren’t like that. Instead, a director and the actors have control over the characters, their movements on screen, and the visual elements you encounter (or don’t).

The goal of designers and architects is to design beautiful homes for their clients — inside and out. Well-planned lighting can play a major role in achieving the look that these professionals and the homeowners are looking for. Whether it’s highlighting certain detail or accents in the home, or simply providing the right ambiance, good lighting is important.

After several years of surging vinyl sales, today Sony Music Entertainment announced that they will begin producing their own vinyl records for the first time in nearly 30 years. Sony is scrambling to find older engineers familiar with the manufacturing process and plan to open their new vinyl production facility in Tokyo, Japan in March 2018.

Since the first consumer electronics arrived in homes across America, there has always been a struggle to find the perfect balance between the functionality that home electronics provide and maintaining the aesthetic of the home. Today, there are more options than ever before that enable us to merge high-performance tech seamlessly with the aesthetic of a home.

Scholars have sought to discover the reasons behind our shared joy of music. Their findings, though far from definitive, are nonetheless insightful. From escapism to health to social cohesion, the reasons behind our shared love of music are as numerous as the genres in your local record shop. And at least one of them probably aligns with your own reasons for listening.