Unlike the past few weeks, the first week of June 2026 was filled with noteworthy items worth coverage in KMB Comm’s weekly tech industry recap.
Included in the barrage of news from this week’s media cycle, we will shamelessly self-promote ourselves for a moment and point out that KMB started the week out with a blog that provides some helpful information on AVIXA’s move into the domestic residential technology event space.
Looking at this week’s news and the residential technology market, the KMB Comm technology review has items from The Listening Chair and Future Audiophile.
Expanding our coverage to a national level, Connected Design, LinkedIn, and Yahoo also had coverage of the global brands Samsung and Apple. Wrapping up our look at the week’s news will conclude with how the latest “Star Wars” movie is performing at the box office.
KMB Comm is Enthralled with the State of Home Audio
Stereo or 2-channel audio is back, and the home technology integration market is in a good position to offer homeowners a range of solutions that spans everything from entry level turntables to exotic audiophile loudspeakers.
With stereo’s revival in full swing let’s look back for a moment with The Listening Chair with its retro audio column. In a column written by the Md.-based dealer Just Audio, the website revisits the Onkyo M-510 amplifier.
In the column Just Audio says, the M-510 is, “a prime example of a vintage Japanese ‘monster’ component [that] is so legendary that it is often spoken about in the same breath as classic amps from high-end brands like Krell, Mark Levinson, and Accuphase.”
Just Audio also points out was sold between the years of 1984 to 1992 for $3,800 at launch, which is equivalent to about $10,000 today.
Staying in home audio, The Future Audiophile has an opinion column that focuses on the hotly debated topic of taking your time when making thoughtful decisions related to home audio.
The author, Jerry Del Colliano, offers some reasonable advice to anyone thinking about getting into the audiophile hobby or maybe reinvesting into an older system. He says first to take your time and limit the variables with any change to your home audio system. He says that each new upgrade could be impactful to the performance of a system. He continues by noting that if you have a component on loan from a dealer to take your time in evaluating the product and the changes in your system.
Del Colliano also underscores that price doesn’t always equate into performance, so he says don’t be swayed into a decision based on the price of a component.
The Week in National Technology News
The first global technology market item in this week’s KMB Comm Tech Week in Review comes from Connected Design.
In the story, Connected Design reports that less than a year after moving into a facility in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., the company is interested in moving its U.S. headquarters to Plano, Texas.
The story adds that currently there are about 1,000 employees in the N.J. location and most of that staff will be reassigned to the new location in Texas.
The next two stories come from LinkedIn.
The first LinkedIn story covers the release of the new Microsoft quantum chip that was developed with AI.
LinkedIn states the new Majorana 2 is said to offer higher levels of performance, including a 1,000-fold improvement in reliability.
Staying on the LinkedIn website, Apple is preparing to compete against Meta by release its version of smart glasses.
Picking up a report form Bloomberg, the LinkedIn post says that Apple plans to release the glasses in late 2027 with the goal of capturing a piece of the $200 billion eyewear market. The only issue the story continues, is that any delay could provide Meta the opportunity to larger foothold in the category.
Closing out the KMB Comm Technology Week in Review is some bad news for fans of Grogu.
Yahoo posted a story on the massive drop at the box office Disney’s “Star Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu” experienced this past weekend. According to Yahoo, the film’s box-office revenues dropped nearly 70% from its $81.6 million opening weekend to $25 million in its second weekend.
The story goes on to point out that going forward competition at the box office will only increase to make it more difficult for Disney with the movie to match previous levels of box office success like past titles from the movie franchise.
That competition by-the-way includes “Masters of the Universe,” “Disclosure Day,” and “Supergirl.”
For more content from KMB Communications, check out this blog on the innovative WOW!house 2026 exhibit in London. Included in the blog is a link for a podcast Katye McGregor Bennett did with Andrea Harvey that provides more detail on this exhibit’s combination of design and technology.