If setting up a 5.1, 6.1, or 7.1 channel home theater is giving you a headache, calm down. This guide will soothe the pain and make sense of the numbers. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve ...

You've spent a bundle on great speakers--and the sound still sucks. <i>Stereophile</i> magazine editor John Atkinson's tips can help get the sound you paid for. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve ...

Let’s deal with the “standard” Dolby Digital 5.1 setup first (fig.1) since it represents the mandatory standard for current DVDs and for High Definition TV broadcasts. (DTS, a competing system, is ...

If you don't consider yourself an audiophile there's a good chance you placed your speakers based on where they'd look best—and stick out the least—rather than where they sounded ideal. Follow some ...

I'm looking to redo the arrangement of furniture in my room and looking for opinions on which is the better placement for the center speaker. Below is a quick and dirty floor plan I created. Left to ...

Since I already have a big gaping hole in the ceiling of our living room (Leaking shower drain) I figured I could use the hole to my advantage fish some cable and finally put some proper surround ...

Dolby Atmos, the surround sound technology from Dolby Laboratories, has been around for several years. While Dolby Atmos has enhanced the audio experience for millions of people around the globe, it ...

I can't tell you how many times I have been to department stores and walked by their electronics section to find salesmen luring customers into buying cubed speakers. I can recall a specific time when ...

In-wall speakers are becoming more popular these days with aesthetics playing a major role in dictating the theater system components. In the olden days (think Pong), in-wall speakers typically didn’t ...