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Cleer Alpha Noise-Canceling Headphones • Cleer Audio’s new Alpha headphones, the company’s flagship wireless noise-canceling model, is jam-packed with extras to augment its very good overall sound quality. Available in Midnight Blue and Stone finishes, the $199 Alpha offers many advanced and customizable features that make it well worth the price. And with everything from app-controlled ambient audio level adjustment to smart noise-cancellation and Dirac Virtuo processing, the Alpha is primed to take on any travel adventure.

A Remarkable Man

Camp Epic • The acquisition of Bandcamp by Epic Games could lead to some quite intriguing, game-embedded music-streaming opps that could further enhance the already large appeal of the Fortnite franchise and its Soundwave Series.

Big Screen Dilemmas • In my last two columns, I discussed major changes that have taken place in the display market. When I started my career as a custom installer, getting a cinema-size image meant a front projection system in a light-controlled room. But technology has rapidly developed to the point where you can get a 100-inch display for under twenty grand. (Sony’s 100-incher is currently on sale for $16,999 as I write this, with Samsung’s 98-incher selling for $2,000 less than that.)

Atmos on Amazon

MEDIA ROOM INSIDER: HOLLYWOOD COMES HOME • How a sound editor turned custom installation pro transformed his former home studio into a home theater.

THE UNIVERSAL DREAM • Rush’s February 1981 masterpiece Moving Pictures ushered in a previously uncharted era that brought prog rock closer to the heart of the masses. And now, 41 years later, this landmark album gets its further due, thanks to a truly comprehensive multidisc box set and a fully immersive DolbyAtmos mix.

Low-Cost Laser

Test Bench

A New Classic

Game of Screens

Room Correction Perfected

Listen Up!

Test Bench

Accessible Atmos

Bass Bruiser

Sub Dominus

Test Bench

THE GODFATHER TRILOGY

P.U.L.S.E RESTORED & RE-EDITED - DELUXE EDITION

Fire in the Sky