Wherever you are, just stop and listen for a moment. Be alert to all the sounds you’re hearing. If you’re outside in a city, or in the country, there’ll likely be a multitude of sounds impinging on your ears from every direction. Even if you’re in an office, you’ll notice the familiar ambient sounds—the background whir of the air-circulation system, the tapping of keys on computer keyboards, distant muffled city sounds (unless the windows are open), and so on.
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January 28, 2011
Which surround sound speakers? Bookshelf or Tower Speakers?
Log inQ. My room is 19 ft. x 11 ft. x 8 ft. and I sit 8.5 ft. from the speakers. Should I use the QS4′s or QS8′s for my rears? My left/right separation for the front towers will be 5 or 6 feet. I like the M60′s, but should I go for the M22s? Thanks. — Phil L.
September 22, 2010
Three Home Theater Sound Enhancers You Can Try This Weekend
Home theater fans, audiophiles, and newcomers alike all have one goal in mind: to make their home theater or reproduced music sound better. It’s the engine driving most of our loudspeaker and equipment purchases, which is hardly surprising. After all, it’s an amazing era we live in where a savvy consumer can assemble some good loudspeakers, an amplifier and CD/DVD or Blu-ray player and achieve sound reproduction or home theater that can often rival or surpass the real thing, and do it in the comfort of your own home.
Log inSeptember 3, 2010
Is Your Home Theater Setup Ruining Your Movie Experience?
It’s always exciting for audio/video enthusiasts and novices alike when their new speakers, big flat-screen TV, A/V receiver and other components arrive at the front door, ready to be unboxed and set up for the first movie viewing and home theater experience.
Sometimes, however, after setup, the initial impact of the experience may not meet the owner’s expectations. Disappointment ensues.
Frequently (with a couple of exceptions I’ll get to later) it’s through no intrinsic fault of the newly purchased audio-video equipment, but rather just plain old mistakes in system setup.
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