An Open-source content-driven lighting system you can use with your TV or PC, Mac, HTPC displays in movies, games and daily work. When we were kids, many of us were not allowed to watch TV at night because watching it in the darkness was harmful for the eyes (which is actually true). Many of us are still not following the parent’s advice as it is a very good way to focus on what is going on on the screen (which is also true). Here we would like to share with you how you could continue watching TV or working on computer at night and stop bothering about the health of your eyes, and at the same time come to a new level of experience in gaming and watching movies. Lightpack is an open-source...

After the Marantz NR1504, the Marantz NR1604 is the second amp announced by the manufacturer, still in slim format but in 7.1. It also provides network functions, but also offers a scaling 1080p feature, and is also seen with a few extra watts. The Marantz NR1604 sees the power switch to 7 x 90 W (6 ohms) against the 60W x 7 of last year’s model, it has the HD audio decoders including Prologic IIz, which allows the use of conventional 5.1 by assigning two Front High speakers. Zone 2 is also usable in 2.0. Calibration is supported by the Audyssey MultEQ, the Audyssey Dynamic Volume & Dynamic EQ audio processing is also in this receiver. For the rest there is the Pure Direct mode...

Definitely very active in the last months, either with the LS50 speakers or the KEF X300A active speakers, the manufacturer today introduced the KEF E305, a 5.1 compact speaker kit, which reinforces the mid-range offer of the manufacturer already pretty well supplied with the famous KHT-2005 & KHT-3005 kits. The E305 pack consists of four E301 satellite speakers and a  E301c central speaker with similar architecture, since it is 2-way  Bass-reflex speakers featuring of the Uni-Q technology, it incorporates an aluminum tweeter (19 mm) and a aluminum bass/midrange cone (115 mm). The announced frequency response is 90 Hz at 33 kHz, which is rather interesting in terms of dimensions,...