Recently, I was very impressed by the Musical Fidelity V-DAC II (home-theater-preamplifiers/av-preamps/musical-fidelity-v-dac-ii-review.html), and have been eager to hear more products from the venerable British company. The V-DAC II is part of the V Series of entry-level mini components, which is just the first layer of the Musical Fidelity (http://www.musicalfidelity.com/) product line, which includes, in ascending order, the M1, M3, M6, and AMS products. At the very top is the must be seen to be believed Titan power amplifier. John Quick -- of Tempo High Fidelity (http://www.tempohighfidelity.com/), the hard working importer of Musical Fidelity products -- sent me the M1 CLiC digital and analog Universal Music Controller” for review. The analog inputs of the M1 CLiC do not get digitized, by the way. I also received their brand new M1 PWR power amplifier. The M1 CLiC is a Read more... (http://www.avrev.com/home-theater-preamplifiers/stereo-preamps/musical-fidelity-m1-clic-and-m1-pwr-review.html)

When it comes to sound, it doesn’t get much better than Blu-ray. Or at least that’s what we thought before Dolby announced that they’re improving things even more. They’re going to be using TrueHD technology along with 96K upsampling to provide the best audio possible for the home environment. Dolby says that by improving the source of the lossless audio before encoding, they’re able to eliminate digital artifacts in the source material of 48K mastered recordings and restore the natural sound. Read more... (http://www.avrev.com/home-theater-news/blu-ray-software-news/dolby-introduces-dolby-truehd-advanced-96k-upsampling-for-blu-ray.html)

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It's been a little while since we've heard anything new out of the Google TV camp, but LG is putting quite a bit of investment into the platform. The company's new Cinema 3D – for clarity's sake, that means passive – Google TVs are about to hit the market and they're looking incredibly appealing. Read more... (http://www.avrev.com/home-theater-news/lcd-hdtv-news/lg-previews-google-tvs-launch-imminent.html)

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The folks over at McIntosh have a trio of new products on the way, all designed to play nicely together or to integrate into your current system. It kicks off with the MX121 AV Control Center, which includes 3D support, upconversion to 1080p, and a variety of audio features including Apple AirPlay. You can pick it up at $6,000. Read more... (http://www.avrev.com/home-theater-news/blu-ray-hardware-news/mcintosh-reveals-a-power-amp-controller-and-blu-ray-player.html)

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