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Gramophone Expands Commercial Division, Employs New Commercial Sales Director

Gramophone, nationally-renowned leader, innovator, and custom-installer of home theaters, entertainment rooms, automation, networking, lighting and more, is extending its applications to serve the commercial market.  Read More

Be Inspired

Every year, numerous vendors and builders gather for two consecutive weekends at the Maryland Fairgrounds, a venue which hosts events from horse expositions, to the annual Maryland State Fair, to a very recent interactive exhibit of life-size dinosaurs for children and curious adults alike.Read More

Surround Sound: How many channels do you need?

Decades after its birth, multi-channel audio is still confusing to many consumers, particularly when it comes to more than 5.1 channels. John Sciacca explains the evolution of surround sound and how those extra channels benefit listeners.Read More

The First Steps in Choosing Speakers

Wes Phillips explores the speaker types available today and offers practical advice on considering lifestyle and listening habits in making a choice.  Read More

The Story Behind Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs

On Layla, Eric Clapton, Duane Allman, and other assorted friends shifted compositional gears to take listeners on an emotional ride into the mean old world of broken strings and broken hearts. The key to the newly paved aural highway can be found within its genuine, raw grooves.Read More

PSB Speakers New Imagine T3 Model: In One Word 'Amazing'

Over the years I’ve had the good fortune to listen to and own, some of the best audio equipment in the world. My first truly “high-end” speakers were Infinity Servo-Statik 1 speakers.Read More

A Heaven Created from Scratch

Back in July, 2014, our COO Andrew Davis was approached by a client from Annapolis to put in a theater room, which usually comes across as a pretty standard project. With a lot of vision and effort, this request turned into a theater room that exceeded both Gramophone’s and the client’s expectations.Read More

Choose the Right Headphones for You

Love at first ... listen? Get ready for Valentine's Day right by checking out this guide to the perfect headphones. Audio critic Geoff Morrison outlines the pros and cons of headphone types to guide inexperienced readers to the right choice. Read More

OLED: What it is and Why You're Going to Want it (eventually)

One of the most exciting and best-reviewed technologies to emerge in 2013 was OLED, or Organic Light Emitting Diode, a technology used in smartphones, small displays, and now televisions. This article explores the pros and cons of the next big thing in video technology. Read More

CES 2015

From January 5 through January 9th, Gramophone had four folks at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show (CES).Read More