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Choosing The Best Home Theater Speakers: Three Must-Know Tips
Choosing The Best Home Theater Speakers: Three Must-Know Tips
Choosing the best home theater speakers can seem overwhelming - with hundreds of speakers on the market, how do you get the right ones for your room?
Relax, there are some simple tips that can help steer you in the right direction. By looking at these three tips, you'll be armed with the information you need to buy the best home theater speakers that meet your requirements and budget:
Number one is critical, and often overlooked: Consider room size first. There's a little math required here - you need to figure out the size by calculating the length x width x height to get the size of the room in cubic feet. (We've got a calculator on the next page to help you get the room size right!) A small bedroom or den (about 1000 cu. ft.) will be fine with smaller compact bookshelf speakers or in-wall speakers and a small subwoofer.
An average-size living room (about 2,200 cu. ft) will demand modest floorstanding main speakers and a larger subwoofer, or even good compact speakers will do the job, depending on your demands for peak loudness levels. And big family rooms or great rooms will need larger floorstanding main speakers and at least one powerful subwoofer.
Alan Lofft was, for 13 years, Editor in Chief of Sound & Vision, Canada's largest and most respected audio/video magazine. He edited Sound & Vision (Canada) until 1996, when he moved from Toronto to New York to become Senior Editor at Audio magazine.
Lofft has been writing about hi-fi and video professionally for over 20 years, ever since his first syndicated newspaper column, "Sound Advice", began appearing weekly in The Toronto Star, Canada's largest-circulation daily newspaper. In the late 1970s, he became a contributing editor, columnist, and equipment reviewer at AudioScene Canada, the leading national consumer electronics magazine at the time.
He also wrote on consumer electronics for Maclean's magazine and made occasional appearances on TV on "Canada AM," the national CTV morning show, and on June Callwood's national afternoon TV talk show.
In 1983, he was appointed editor of Sound Canada magazine, which he relaunched in 1985 as Sound & Vision, incorporating video content and reviews as well as hi-fi and audio features. He also became a contributing editor to Stereo Review in New York, and an audio columnist for Music Express, a Canadian rock magazine.
An audio and electronics enthusiast from childhood, Alan began building vacuum-tube hi-fi gear for his father, who was an audiophile in the 1950s. Lofft's passion for audio continued through college, during which time he hosted and produced "On Campus", a radio show taped on location (on a portable Ampex 650 open-reel recorder) at Wilfrid Laurier University and broadcast locally in Kitchener, Ontario.
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