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Logitech Mevo Core Review: Dead Simple Multi-Cam Streaming

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Streaming video can be a big business, if a bit painful. Whether you’re playing games, making crafts, or just hanging out in a hot tub, one of the biggest streaming challenges can be finding a camera system that works for your needs. That’s what Logitech had in mind when creating the Mevo Core multi-cam system, and it’s an impressively simple solution to a modern problem.

The Mevo Core is an unassuming cube-style camera that uses a Micro Four Thirds interchangeable lens system. The four sides flanking the lens each have a ¼-inch 20-thread mount, allowing you to mount it by the top, bottom, or sides. On the rear, there are two USB-C ports for charging or connecting as a wired webcam, a 3.5-mm audio output, an HDMI port, and a microSD card slot tucked behind a protective cover.

The whole system is designed to be adaptable to a wide range of shooting situations. The camera can capture 4K video locally, and stream up to 1080p video over Wi-Fi 6E, and it even has an internal rechargeable battery that can record or stream for up to six hours on a single charge. It’s a fascinating camera system that walks the line between streaming webcam and more professional mirrorless cameras used for shooting video. But it’s the software that steals the show.

A Studio, Made Simple

The Mevo Core cameras are designed to be used in multi-cam setups—where you have multiple cameras around you for various angles—and to approximate one if you only have one camera. The Mevo Multicam app is the key that makes the whole system work. This app allows you to connect multiple cameras and feed them all to a single output for livestreaming.

Photograph: Eric Ravenscraft

The Mevo Core cameras are shockingly easy to pair with the app. Open the app and it will automatically detect the camera and walk you through adding the camera to your Wi-Fi network. Once they’re on the network, you can connect them to the app with the touch of a button.

Once your cameras are connected, you can tap the source to swap the live output to that camera angle. In addition to the Mevo Core cameras, you can also add Mevo Start cameras, or, with a Mevo Pro subscription, you can connect any smartphone camera as another video source.

On top of this, the Mevo Multicam app lets you add picture-in-picture presets as well as graphic assets like full-screen overlays, lower-thirds, and over-the-shoulder images. The result is a makeshift live studio that can run on equipment you can easily fit into a messenger bag.

Streamers typically have to rely on apps like OBS and StreamLabs to manage video streams, and while those apps are certainly more robust, there’s a simplicity to the Mevo Multicam system that makes it incredibly easy to manage multiple camera angles while live. The app can show you all the camera feeds at once and let you quickly tap one to swap angles, adjust each one’s audio input levels, and add graphics with a tap. If that was all this system did, I’d be impressed, but then Logitech added something I would’ve wanted years ago if I’d thought to ask.

Turning One Camera Into Many

The 4K sensor inside the Mevo Core is solid and captures decent picture quality, but its better utilized as a 1080p streaming webcam. So why the extra resolution? Well, because when you shoot with more resolution than you need, it gives you the flexibility to crop in on the image without sacrificing picture quality. It’s partly why some of our favorite cinema cameras use 6K sensors for shooting 4K content.

Usually, that’s a postproduction process, but the Mevo Multicam app makes it easy to use that flexibility for live productions. In the app, you can tap on parts of the frame to crop in on the subject and send just a portion of the videofeed to the output. This is a technique I’ve used myself when editing video essays, but this camera system brings it to live performances. You can use a wide shot, then crop into a medium shot to emphasize a line.

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May 28, 2024
Insta360 X4 Review: 8K 360 Footage in a Tiny Package

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In practice, this is the first 360 camera I’ve used where the video footage is still very sharp and clear, even when reframed to 16:9. You still have to deal with the stitch line, which is where the edges of the two lenses meet and software (imperfectly) fills in the gaps, but otherwise postproduction use of this footage feels like, well, just editing video. I mixed it with footage from a Sony A7R II, GoPro Hero 12, and Insta360 Ace Pro, and aside from the wider angle of view, it’s hard to tell the footage apart.

That alone is enough for me to say that this is the 360 camera filmmakers will want. The 8K footage still doesn’t reframe to 4K (you’ll have to wait for 12K footage before that’s possible), but it looks good enough for anything you’re going to put online.

It’s not just the high-end specs that have changed in the X4 either. Frame speeds have been improved in lower-resolution footage, with new options to shoot 5.7K video at 60 fps, 4K at 100 fps, and 4K at 60 fps when shooting in wide-angle mode. None of that is earth-shattering, but it does give you some better slo-mo options, thanks to the higher frame rates.

The color profile options remain the same as the X3: Standard, Vivid, and Log (for those who prefer to color in post). I shot primarily in Standard and found the colors to be nicely rendered, perhaps a little on the warm side. I find Vivid too garish, and of course if you plan to mix footage with other cameras, you’ll want to shoot everything in Log and do your coloring in software.

Film Crew in a Box

Testing action cameras is always one of the best parts of this job, but it was especially fun with the Insta360 X4. I don’t even like shooting 360 video, but shooting 360 video knowing that I can crop, reframe, and still get sharp, clean footage with lots of detail and smooth pans? Yes please.

In many ways the Insta360 is like adding a small film crew to your bag, especially if you get Insta360’s hilariously oversize 9.8-foot selfie stick, which makes it possible to fake surprisingly realistic boom shots.

At $99, the new Extended Edition Selfie Stick isn’t cheap, but is well worth it for the versatility it creates when paired with the X4. Fully extended and held behind you while you walk, it mimics a low-flying drone tracking shot, but without the whole crash-in-the-trees thing.

Speaking of trees, shade, and shadow, the X4 excels in bright sunlight. High-contrast scenes like a forest floor at midday are more challenging (this is true for any camera). HDR mode can help sometimes, but then you lose the ability to shoot Log.

Photograph: Scott Gilbertson

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May 25, 2024
Samsung S95D QD-OLED Review: A Matte Screen for Reflective Rooms

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Maybe that’s why Samsung’s obstinate Tizen interface feels so vexing? The system is easy enough to set up on the TV itself (it crashes every time I’ve tried to use the mobile setup option). It’s aesthetically pleasing and makes connecting and labeling devices a breeze. Yet its scattered layout can make some features feel inordinately difficult.

Adding the Peacock app, for instance, was twice as hard as it should be. It’s not featured in the app store and didn’t register in search until I typed it out completely. Once I found it, as with all new apps, I had to manually add it to the home screen or it lay hidden in the “Installed” window like a second-class citizen.

The main settings bar is similarly unintuitive, with various picture settings randomly interspersed between other settings. You can rearrange things, but it’s usually simpler to just click All Settings to access the legacy setup window. I also experienced a few odd Tizen quirks over a week or so of testing, like apps freezing and even some audio dropouts. Unplugging and replugging the TV seemed to fix things apart from a few minor video-loading issues.

Credit where it’s due, Tizen is packed with extras, from its swath of health and fitness apps to split screen features. There’s even a handy Game Hub with built-in cloud gaming from apps like Xbox Cloud Gaming, NVidia GeForce now, and Amazon Luna. Like most competitors, there’s also a dedicated gaming bar for on-the-fly adjustments.

A (Mostly) Loaded Package

Samsung’s Gaming Hub complements the S95D’s stout collection of gaming features, including VRR (Variable Refresh Rate) and Freesync Pro for buttery high-frame-rate gaming, and ALLM (Auto Low Latency Mode) for speedy input response. All four HDMI 2.1 inputs support high refresh rates at up to 144 Hz to match high-frame-rate gaming from PCs, and there are a slew of game-oriented picture modes, making it easy to lock in a gorgeous picture.

The TV’s 4.2.2-channel audio system provides surprisingly solid sound. There’s some moderate punch in the lower midrange and fantastic overhead expansion (especially for a TV this thin), shooting Dolby Atmos effects overhead and side to side. Adding a newer Samsung soundbar with Q-Symphony lets you utilize both devices in concert.

Other features include options like Amazon Alexa or Samsung Bixby voice control, Apple AirPlay streaming, and support for HDR10, HDR10+, and HLG (Hybrid Log Gamma) HDR formats.

What you don’t get here is Dolby Vision HDR or, bizarrely for a company that makes Android phones, Chromecast streaming support. These omissions are pretty common across Samsung devices, but each year I hold out hope they’ll eventually cave and add them.

The main advantage of omitting Dolby Vision is one less picture setting to mess with, not that you’ll need to do much to the picture settings anyway. The TV looks almost flawless out of the box in the Filmmaker mode, requiring only minor tweaks. For those who like a slightly brighter picture, the Movie mode is also solid, though you may want to turn off settings like motion smoothing. Whatever your settings, you’ll want to ensure the oddly inaccurate Intelligent Mode is off.

Inner Reflection

Samsung’s new anti-glare screen technology is the S95D’s most exclusive feature and works phenomenally well compared to other such options. As previewed at Samsung’s TV event in March, the matte surface is incredibly effective at reducing reflections, even with lights aimed directly at the screen from mere feet away.

There is a trade-off for killing the glare. Part of the beauty of a perfectly black screen on which pixels only pop on demand is just that: perfect black. With the matte screen, lights or reflections aren’t the conspicuous eyesores they are with traditional screens, but they don’t all disappear completely. The screen diffuses but also expands some reflections across a broader area, raising its backdrop from glossy obsidian to lighter charcoal.

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May 24, 2024
Casper Adjustable Base Max Review: Customized Angles and Massage

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I love the feeling of getting into bed at night, but for a while, my sleep wasn’t restful. I was tossing and turning, and waking up with back pain, so I replaced my old bed with the Casper Original Hybrid Mattress. That model was recently replaced with Casper’s Dream Hybrid—the Original has been ghosted from Casper’s site, but the remaining stock can still be found on Amazon until it runs out. My back hasn’t ached since, but something was still missing.

I have long dreamed of the ability to adjust my mattress, angling myself to comfortably read or work on my laptop, or propping my head up on nights when a cold or allergy-induced runny nose would otherwise keep me awake. Because the Casper mattress was such a success, I turned to the brand for help here too. For the last few months, I’ve been sleeping on Casper’s Adjustable Base Max. All it took was a minor foot raise to feel all the tension in my back melt away. This is how the other side lives.

Sleep on It

Casper has three adjustable frames, all controlled by a simple remote (we are good with a remote and hated the app-controlled Sleep Number adjustable bed). Most people would be fine with the base option, at about $1,100 for a queen-size bed, with head and foot adjustments and a zero-gravity mode, which adjusts your body to evenly spread pressure and eliminate neck or back pain—NASA found this sleeping position to be ideal for astronauts dealing with pressure in space. The $1,500 Pro adds two-zone massage, with one vibrating motor at the top and one at the bottom, and USB ports for phone charging. The Max that I tried is a whopping $2,500 when not on sale. I don’t need the Max, but I do very much appreciate its extras.

Photograph: Medea-Giordano

The Max gets four-zone massage with three intensity levels. Instead of one motor vibrating the whole top section and another at the bottom, each side gets its own head and foot motor, four in total. If you share a bed with someone, both of you can experience it fully. It’s more of a vibration than an actual massage—it doesn’t have nodes that get into your muscles like a massage chair, of course—but it is genuinely relaxing despite itd having to travel through the frame and thick mattress. Although it can be loud. The zero gravity feature brings your upper body to a 120-degree angle and your feet to a 45-degree angle with your knees bent. I felt my body release every ounce of tension here and made every person in my family try it too. Zero gravity is supposed to be good for sleeping, but because I’m a combination sleeper who rotates between my side and stomach, I prefer it for relaxing at the end of the day.

The Max has a head lift like the other two do, which adjusts your upper body from flat to about 20 inches from the frame, and it also offers pillow tilt. That means the top half of the head piece also adjusts, bringing your head in position for comfortably watching TV or reading. Otherwise, you’re more positioned to look at the ceiling if you are laid completely back. The foot of the bed raises the bottom of your mattress about 10 inches from the frame. If you find a head and foot position you really love, there are two preset buttons on the remote so you can save them for easy adjusting later—say one for lounging and one for sleeping. I love the under-bed lighting that provides just enough brightness to find something or to light your way to the bathroom at night, but not enough to wake up your partner or blind your sleepy eyes.

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May 24, 2024
/e/OS Review: This Operating System Is Better Than Android. You Should Try It

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Photograph: Scott Gilbertson

While I like the privacy features of /e/OS and have even taken to spoofing my geodata much of the time, the real killer feature to me is the /e/OS app store, which is named the App Lounge. When I used LineageOS, I installed apps from several different app stores. There’s F-Droid, which hosts open source apps, and Uptodown, which a few apps I use support (Vivaldi being the main one), and then I had a few I could only get through the Google Play Store. As anyone using LineageOS can tell you, it’s a lot to keep track of.

The /e/OS App Lounge combines apps from a variety of sources, including the Play Store and F-Droid, among others, making them all available in one place. (You can also opt to only show open source apps.)

Also nice is the option to stay anonymous when connecting to any of the app stores, although you will need to be logged in to get the apps you paid for, since those are tied to your user ID. I have also had the anonymous login fail a few times, giving me token errors. This is one of the few places I’ve had issues with /e/OS.

The App Lounge uses a familiar design that looks like Google Play but adds a few features. The first is that App Lounge provides privacy information about each app, grading it on a 1 to 10 scale, where 1 is horrible for privacy and 10 generally means no trackers. The App Lounge also grades apps according to which permissions they require. The fewer permissions (like access to your photos or geodata), the higher the rating. It’s a nice way of providing complex information in a way anyone can easily parse.

In a win for the larger Android-alt community, /e/OS claims to be working on making the App Lounge available as an app that can be installed anywhere. (In the meantime, the Aurora Store is a close alternative.)

What Doesn’t Work

As much as I love /e/OS, it’s not perfect. I’ve had some minor issues with geodata. I live on the road, so my location changes every couple of weeks. Sometimes /e/OS is slow to pick up on this, and the Maps app will show me search results based on where I was last week. The included Maps app itself is still rough around the edges (and uses some proprietary code). It’s better and more accurate than every other map app I’ve tried, but it isn’t as good as Google Maps. I don’t care what you think of Google; its Maps app is unmatched. I still use it as a backup when the default /e/OS app doesn’t find what I need.

The other big missing feature for me is speech-to-text. Right now, /e/OS ships without speech-to-text at all. There’s a good summary of the options available in the /e/OS forums. None of them are ideal, but I’ve managed to get by with a combination of Sayboard and the stock /e/OS keyboard. The good news is that a built-in speech-to-text feature is on the road map for /e/OS in 2024. This will also open the door to an /e/OS assistant, which is not currently available. The project is unclear about what form this might take, given the privacy implications of interacting with a server to answer queries, but one possibility is a large language model running locally.

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May 22, 2024
Valoi Easy35 Film-Scanning Kit Review: Fast, Affordable, and Easy to Use

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We might be deep in the digital age, but film photography has never gone away. Like records, which lived on through tapes, CDs, and now digital music, film continues on. However, while you can DIY develop film quite easily, making prints with an enlarger remains a cumbersome process that requires a dedicated space. The more economical alternative is to scan your film and print it digitally.

Professional scanning is expensive, and pro-level scanners are also expensive (not as expensive as enlarging your house to make way for a darkroom, but still not cheap). One popular solution is to photograph your negatives with a high-resolution digital camera. The resulting RAW file can then be touched up, sharpened, and printed like any other digital file.

And finally, photographing your images still isn’t as easy as it sounds. That’s where Valoi’s Easy35 film-scanning kit comes in. It’s everything you need to “scan” your 35-mm film in one simple-to-use kit. It’s a breeze to set up, fast to scan, and produces great results.

A Series of Tubes

Scanning film by photographing it is tricky business. You need a good light source, you need to keep the film absolutely flat, and you have to have the camera and lens aligned with the film so there’s no distortion.

Film photographers have been building scanning rigs for years, and there is a ton of great advice on Reddit and elsewhere, but if you want an off-the-shelf solution that eliminates the learning curve, the Valoi Easy35 film-scanning kit is the best option I’ve found.

Photograph: Scott Gilbertson

The Easy35 consists of a light box, with brightness and temperature controls for the backlight and slots on each side to feed your film through. Inside, there’s a film holder that helps your film slide through and line up. A series of tubes forms a light-tight tunnel between the film you’re photographing and the sensor in your digital camera.

The result is consistently excellent digital images of your film with very little effort.

There are some caveats, though. The big one is that this only works for 35-mm film. If you’re shooting medium format or larger, this won’t work. That a shame, because 120 and larger film is where you still have a resolution advantage over digital. I’d love to see Valoi build a 120 scanner, but for now it’s 35-mm and smaller (there’s a 110 adapter if you shoot 110 cartridges).

The next caveat is that you should probably have a camera with interchangeable lenses. It doesn’t have to be the best camera, but the quality of your results will depend on both the quality of the camera and lens you’re using. A 100-megapixel Fujifilm GFX is generally going to give you better results than a micro4/3s camera.

Photograph: Scott Gilbertson

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May 19, 2024
Logitech Casa Pop-Up Desk Review: A Cute Portable Workstation

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I’m picky about my desk setup. I love working from home with my laptop stand, monitor, mechanical keyboard, and mouse, and I hate using just a laptop most of the time. But sometimes I want to work from the library or my sister’s kitchen counter without losing all the convenience of my peripherals. Enter Logitech’s Casa Pop-Up Desk.

The Pop-Up Desk weighs about 2.7 pounds and, when closed, looks like a small textbook. That means it fits in most backpacks and tote bags so you can take it anywhere. You open it to find a wireless keyboard and trackpad in their designated spots. Just pop ’em out and then configure the case into a stand to keep your laptop at eye level, using magnets to connect the platform to the edge of the case.

There’s also a compartment to hold the USB-C charging cord (it doesn’t come with a power block) that charges both accessories. It’s not big enough for much else, but it could also hold your phone charger too, a pen, and maybe a thin stack of Post-it Notes.

Photograph: Medea Giordano

Desk Mate

Logitech makes reliable keyboards, and we recommend many of them. I wish the Casa Pop-Up Desk included a cute mechanical keyboard, like Logitech’s Pop Keyboard, instead of a quieter membrane keyboard. I like clicky-clacky keys, but that would likely make the whole thing bigger, bulkier, and more expensive.

Still, the Casa Keys keyboard included here works well, with a slight incline for comfortable typing. It’s a compact keyboard, so it doesn’t have the numpad or function row. I prefer a full-size keyboard, but for use when I’m away from my desk it’s perfect. If you typically use your laptop keyboard anyway, you won’t be disappointed with it.

Photograph: Medea Giordano

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May 18, 2024
Artiphon Chorda Review: A Nifty Toy for Non-Musicians

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Artiphon’s whole thing is making simple musical instruments that focus on delivering instant gratification. They’re sneaky gateways to the nerdy world of MIDI polyphonic expression, or MPE, which allows a player to give each note its own unique timbre like you might on something like a guitar. It’s a technology that’s gaining popularity and has been embraced by some pretty big players in the music world, but it’s still kind of niche—and the price of entry can often be high.

Artiphon’s Chorda is just $250, and requires minimal skill to pick up and start making music with. It’s an instrument that vaguely resembles the neck of a guitar, with 12 capacitive touchpads and a strummable “bridge” across its surface. Inside is a relatively simple synth engine that covers everything from chiptune leads, to smooth bass and synth pop drums. There’s even a sampler function for adding your own sounds. Plus there’s a pretty decent built-in speaker, so you don’t need anything other than a cheap phone to get started.

The pads across the top of the Chorda are quantized to a particular musical scale, which greatly simplifies things for nonmusicians. Even with absolutely zero knowledge of music theory or scales, it’s pretty easy to just pick up Chorda and make something halfway decent.

There are four modes: Drum, Bass, Chord, and Lead. Drum, obviously, plays drums. Bass gives you monophonic low end. Chord puts a full chord on each pad, and Lead gives you a polyphonic palette from which to solo.

Photograph: Terrence O’Brien

In Use

Navigating Chorda can take a little practice, but once you get the hang of it, things mostly make sense. Nearly every pad has a secondary function for selecting sounds, triggering the loop recorder, changing the tempo, and so on. To access those functions you just hold down the A button at the end of the device. Some also require you to tap the bridge to cycle through options, like when you want to move up or down octaves or change presets. Without a screen to provide you with visual feedback, this can get a little frustrating, but it was never enough to make me hurl the Chorda across the room.

One thing that is routinely quite frustrating is the looper. I’m not going to pretend to have perfect timing (there’s a reason I’m a guitarist and not a drummer), but I have been using various guitar pedals and Ableton’s Push controller to do live looping for around 20 years. I have never struggled quite as much as I do with the Chorda (or Artiphon’s Orba, for that matter). I don’t know if it’s the result of over-aggressive quantization or just very unforgiving controls, but I’d say I fail to get a perfect loop about 25 percent of the time.

Photograph: Terrence O’Brien

Sounds

The sounds themselves vary greatly in style and quality. Between the four different categories, there are well over 200 presets, ranging from gentle Fender Rhodes piano sounds to industrial drums and ambient synth leads. The synth engine inside Chorda, like the Orba before it, is designed specifically to be extremely low power. This ensures that it runs smoothly on the hardware and maximizes battery life, but it also means there are some limitations.

Chorda is at its best when it leans into its stripped-down nature and delivers plucky FM leads and clean pads. It’s also pretty adept at the lo-fi edges of chiptune, where even the meager processor is far more powerful than anything found inside vintage game consoles.

More complex sounds, especially ones that attempt to mimic acoustic instruments, can be a little spotty. Bright Violin and Clean Guitar aren’t much better than what you’d find on a ’90s ROMpler (a sample-based synth).

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May 16, 2024
SVS Ultra Evolution Review: Clean Looks, Refined Sound

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In the confusing cacophony of speaker brands, types, and models, it’s good for audio folks like me to have a back-pocket recommendation that consistently exceeds expectations. SVS, best known for its phenomenal subwoofers, has long been my outside-the-box value pick. The company’s Prime Series offers fantastic entry- and mid-level speakers, while the flagship Ultra Series brings step-up performance at a still reasonable price point.

For 2024, SVS’s top speaker series got a rare ground-up redesign, featuring eye-catching new angled cabinets and fresh drivers, called Ultra Evolution. SVS completes the design with its familiar piano gloss finish (woodgrain is also on offer), giving the Evolution Bookshelf speakers I evaluated a chic yet futuristic vibe.

These speakers are a fairly substantial investment, and there’s a glut of options at or around their price class fighting for your dollars. As usual, though, SVS comes through with a winner. The new Ultra’s striking style and thoughtful design give way to exhilarating performance, with a swift mix of clarity, dynamics, and vivid stereo imaging.

Who Bent My Speakers?

Pulling the Ultra Evolution from their packaging reveals stout mirrored cabinets standing over 15 inches tall, 8 inches across, and 11 inches back. The folded front looks like Hulk had a rage attack and Bruce Banner contritely sent them in for refinishing. Rounded corners at the front and back complete the design for a look that’s minimalist without being boring.

Angled speakers are nothing new; Focal’s Kanta speakers have it, while its zillion-dollar Grand Utopia towers look like they’ve been sliced with a katana and rehung as mobiles. It’s still surprising to see this design at such accessible pricing.

Photograph: Ryan Waniata

Though it may double as a stylistic flourish, the Ultra’s new angle is all about science. SVS engineers used “time aligned cabinet geometry” in an effort to line up the center of the speaker’s 6.5-inch composite glass fiber woofer with the 1-inch aluminum dome tweeter for maximum “phase coherence.” In other words, the aim is to better align their frequencies so they hit your ears at the same time, improving accuracy and stereo imaging. Seeing as the Evolution’s imaging is among my favorite of their sonic skills, it seems to have worked out.

Aluminum dome tweeters are favored for their longevity and swift clarity, but depending on voicing, they sometimes hit my ears with too much harshness in the higher frequencies. SVS says it smoothed things out by adding a diamond coating to the tweeter. Using a technique called vapor deposition, “a layer of diamond carbon is applied” to increase rigidity and smooth out the sonic transition between the tweeter and woofer.

The treble sometimes leans toward the bright side, especially notable after longer listening sessions, but the mix of clear and tempered high frequencies keeps all but the sharpest recordings well in check. SVS also adds a random-latticed tweeter cover, designed to both protect the driver and better disperse sound frequencies to increase the sweet spot. You could cover it all up with the included magnetic grilles, but the Evolution look a lot more dynamic without them.

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May 16, 2024
Chimet review: Craig Kirkpatrick-Whitby is turning data from two dramatic storms into music

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The West Pole Beacon off the UK’s south coast records weather and sea data

PJ Davy

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Every time Craig Kirkpatrick-Whitby speaks, he has to hold down a button on a device in his neck, which stops air coming out of a hole in his throat. He explains the opening-closing mechanism before he reinserts the white plastic disc. It is a heat and moisture exchanger, implanted to allow him to retain moisture in his lungs.

“I’ve had cancer three times in the last four-and-a-half years,” he says, his voice now generated by a tracheoesophageal voice prosthesis embedded in the back…

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May 15, 2024