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How To Hide Your Home Theater Components, but Still Control Them

by Matt Whitlock on January 26, 2012 4:02 PM

All that stuff has to go somewhere. One of the biggest challenges of designing a home theater system for your home is determining the location of the home theater components. Fortunately, getting your components out of view (or even out of the room) is way easier today than it used to be. We'll show you how.

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The LG HT554TH Home Cinema and the Mystery of the Missing DTS Sound

by Matt Whitlock on July 22, 2009 10:05 AM

Question from TechLore Member snypy : I bought a new LG HT554TH home cinema that plays Dolby Digital fine, but when I select DTS I get no sound at all, although the device display indicates... More »

HDMI Woes

by Yog-Sothoth on February 11, 2009 7:08 PM

As a Christmas present to myself, I purchased an Onkyo TX-SR705 A/V receiver . I've been very happy with it, especially since I can utilize the three HD audio options on Blu-ray Discs: uncompressed PCM,... More »

My Homebrew Vacuum Tube iPod Stereo Amplifier and Speakers

by Peter Redmer on January 26, 2009 6:17 PM

...what I will profess, however, is that tube-based electronics exude a Fallout-eque, 1940's chic and mystique that new-fangled, button-ridden solid state products simply cannot emulate no matter how hard they try...

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How CDs are Made

by Matt Whitlock on July 7, 2008 5:09 PM

No doubt you've accumulated hundreds, more likely thousands , of these little digital wonders since the CD hit the big time in the early 80s. First conceived in the late 70s to store digital music,... More »

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How To Calibrate Your Surround Sytem Using an SPL Meter

by Matt Whitlock on December 14, 2004 9:13 AM

In movie theaters and professional studios, audio systems are calibrated using sophisticated measuring equipment to make sure the sound is being replicated in a precise manner. One of the calibrations they do involves balancing the... More »

How to Play MP3 Files on Your Home Stereo Without a Computer

by Matt Whitlock on December 14, 2004 9:13 AM

If you are like many music listeners, you have ripped all of your CDs into digital music files, which are probably sitting on your computer and/or a portable MP3 player. Wouldn't it be convenient to play all of those files on your home stereo unit, effectively eliminating the need to use... More »

Configuring Your Receiver for a Passive Subwoofer

by Matt Whitlock on May 9, 2005 10:22 AM

Setting up an audio system is a lot trickier today than it was many years ago. In the past, speakers were designed to reproduce bass frequencies, so the need for subwoofers were non-existant. When the size of speakers began shrinking, the need for subwoofers to handle bass increased. More »

How To Hide Your Home Theater Components, but Still Control Them

by Matt Whitlock on January 26, 2012 4:02 PM

All that stuff has to go somewhere. One of the biggest challenges of designing a home theater system for your home is determining the location of the home theater components. Fortunately, getting your components out of view (or even out of the room) is way easier today than it used to be. We'll show you how.

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Tips and Hints For Diagnosing DVD/CD Combos and Players

by Larry Dillon on August 9, 2006 5:39 PM

Did your DVD/CD player or combo unit suddenly take a turn for the worse? Did it stop reading some discs, start skipping, or just stop playing all together? If you're the type to dig in and fix it on your own, Larry Dillon has the ultimate guide for you! Read on to learn how to figure out what's wrong, and maybe get that player back in top working order!

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