I’m Rob Sabin, and thanks for stopping by my website. If you’re an audiophile or home theater enthusiast you may know my name from years of editing and contributing product reviews and features as a senior editor and editor-in-chief at some the best known trade and consumer mags and websites: Sound & Vision, Home Theater, The Absolute Sound, The Perfect Vision, TWICE, Digital Home Entertainment, and others. Some might recall my early articles for The New York Times documenting the emergence of digital cinema. Electronics industry insiders may remember working with me in the late 90s through mid-2000s when I was group marketing director at Hachette Filipacchi Media for the newly-formed Sound & Vision and its sister publications Audio, Mobile Entertainment, and the movie magazine Premiere. Then there are those who crossed paths with me as a custom electronics integrator, briefly running my own installation business and contributing marketing and promotional skills to others. 

This website is meant to showcase the best of my editorial portfolio, mostly investigative works that fell outside the product review and how-to focus of traditional A/V journalism. If you’re an editor considering a recent pitch from me, I encourage you to peruse my About page and writing samples, including the summaries for each article that places it in context. Now retired from full-time work as an A/V editor, I’m using my reporting skills and tech savvy to enlighten general interest readers on the exciting and often controversial inventions and technologies rapidly shaping our future. If you have ideas of your own I might be good for, contact me directly at rfsabin@gmail.com or 908-868-4128. I’m ready to collaborate.

Finally, if you’re an A/V buff or consumer electronics historian, you may find my past work an enlightening walk down memory lane — recalling times, for example, when HDTV and digital cinema were nothing more than ideas still waiting to take hold; when consumers were forced to choose between Betamax and VHS; and when computer break-ins were just something precocious teenagers and college kids did for bragging rights. Across nearly four decades, I was lucky to report on all this and more.