Surround Sound
-
How to Set Up Surround Sound on a TV
Home Audio How-To's on eHow &bull Sep 1, 2010
Although the built-in speakers on most televisions produce adequate sound, a better way to fully experience the audio of most movies and video games is through a connected surround sound system. Surround sound receivers have multiple audio connection ports, giving… Full Story »
-
How to Put Home Theater Speakers on My PC
Home Audio How-To's on eHow &bull Sep 1, 2010
Most modern PCs have a provision for digital audio. Sound cards will typically deploy a digital optical or HDMI output, both designed to send bitstreamed surround sound and stereo data to an outboard receiver or decoder. Once decoded, this information… Full Story »
-
How to Connect Surround Sound 5.1 Speakers
Home Audio How-To's on eHow &bull Sep 1, 2010
Surround sound, available in various incarnations for years, is almost the de facto home audio standard. However, in nearly all cases, these speakers connect to the receivers that drive them in the same way. As a result, getting a 5.1… Full Story »
-
How to Set Up PS3 Surround Sound
Home Audio How-To's on eHow &bull Sep 1, 2010
The Playstation 3 video game console is a good DVD and Blu-Ray player, in addition to providing high-definition gaming experiences. If you wish to maximize its potential, connect this console to a decent surround-sound system. As with its main competitor,… Full Story »
-
Onkyo PR-SC5508 THX Certified Processor First Look
Audio Processors Reviews on Audioholics &bull Sep 1, 2010
Where audio and video equipment undergoes rigorous objective and subjective tests by our staff, ensuring that marketing slogans aren't the only guidelines for your home theater choices. Learn about all sorts of authentic (if sometimes off-the-wall) products that you can spray on, tape on, insert into, or otherwise use to improve a room's acoustics. Sometimes a receiver or a format-converter isn't enough. In those cases, audio and video processors can do wonders to the sounds and sights in your home theater. Peruse our reviews of A/V processors to discover the ones you need. Receivers are often the heart of a… Full Story »
-
stlgradstu says "just an average speaker system" about Panasonic SC-PT480 Theater System
Home Theater Reviews on ViewPoint &bull Aug 31, 2010Ok first of all coming into this don't expect this PanasonicSC-PT480 Theater system to blow you away. This is a pretty small little surround sound system and packs a pretty good punch for its' size. On the other hand it… Full Story »
-
NextGen Remote Extender Genius Review
Remote Control Reviews on Audioholics &bull Aug 31, 2010
Where audio and video equipment undergoes rigorous objective and subjective tests by our staff, ensuring that marketing slogans aren't the only guidelines for your home theater choices. Learn about all sorts of authentic (if sometimes off-the-wall) products that you can spray on, tape on, insert into, or otherwise use to improve a room's acoustics. Sometimes a receiver or a format-converter isn't enough. In those cases, audio and video processors can do wonders to the sounds and sights in your home theater. Peruse our reviews of A/V processors to discover the ones you need. Receivers are often the heart of a… Full Story »
-
Cambridge vs. Bose Surround Speakers
Home Audio How-To's on eHow &bull Aug 31, 2010
Bose and Cambridge SoundWorks are major manufacturers of a variety of speakers, including surround sound speakers. Both brands are known for producing smaller speakers that create a surprisingly loud and enveloping sound. Bose primarily sells speakers in full home theater… Full Story »
-
Medicine for Melancholy
Home Theater Forum &bull Aug 31, 2010
A night they barely remember becomes a day they'll never forget...Wyatt Cenac (of The Daily Show) and Tracey Heggins star in this love story about two African-American twenty-somethings, their one-night stand, and a revealing day-after in rapidly gentrifying San Francisco a city with the smallest proportional black population of any other major American city. In his internationally acclaimed and award-winning debut feature, writer/director Barry Jenkins creates a tender yet resonant tale of sex, race, bicycles and modern urban life that became one of the most significant hits of the festival season and remains perhaps the most talked-about independent film of… Full Story »
-
Topics:
- Grain
- Speakers
- Surround Sound
-
How to Compare 5.1 Speakers
Home Audio How-To's on eHow &bull Aug 31, 2010
Comparing 5.1 surround sound speakers objectively can be difficult because of the large number of variables that can contribute to differences in sound quality. Minimizing these variables will result in a more accurate comparison between speakers. The components connected to… Full Story »
-
Topics:
- Speakers
- Surround Sound
-
Panasonic Sa-He100 Specifications
Home Audio How-To's on eHow &bull Aug 31, 2010
The Panasonic SA-HE100's specifications reveal its power and flexibility as a multichannel receiver for home theater enthusiasts. This device creates six-channel surround sound in a variety of digital audio formats, according to CNET. The Panasonic SA-HE100 measures 16.9 inches wide… Full Story »
-
Toshiba 40RV525R 40-Inch 1080p LCD HDTV
Home Theater Forum &bull Aug 30, 2010
Upgrade your viewing experience to 1080p True HD with the Toshiba 40RV525, featuring DynaLight dynamic backlight control, offering significant improvement in black levels for deep images. With Full HD, there's no need to scale down a 1080 signal. With twice… Full Story »
-
ZVOX Z-Base 575 Speaker System
Home Theater Magazine &bull Aug 30, 2010
Despite the predictable claims that manufacturers make-and the breathless, indefensible hyperbolic shrieks made by computer geeks posing as audio reviewers-no one-box-solution soundbar can really replace a discrete 5.1-channel surround sound system. ZVOX founder and former Cambridge SoundWorks marketing executive Tom Hannaher knows that, and the ZVOX Website says it. Bravo. No serious home theater enthusiast would consider a soundbar as a main system solution-unless they lived in a concrete bunker and couldn't run wires… Full Story »
-
How to Connect a Center Speaker
Home Audio How-To's on eHow &bull Aug 30, 2010
The central speaker in a surround sound system is directly under the television. It produces the majority of the audio as it is directly positioned in front of the viewer. The center speaker connects to the surround sound system just… Full Story »
-
How to Set Up My Cambridge Surround Sound
Home Audio How-To's on eHow &bull Aug 29, 2010
Cambridge manufactures high-end surround sound speaker systems for use in home theaters. The two surround sound systems available from Cambridge, the Surround 5.1 and Surround II 5.1, set up in a room in essentially the same way. The main difference… Full Story »
-
The Objective
Home Theater Forum &bull Aug 28, 2010
The New Nightmare from the Co-Creator of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECTAfghanistan, November 2001: Two months after 9/11, a CIA operative leads a hardcore U.S. Special Forces squad on a classified mission deep into harsh and hostile Taliban territory. Their objective is to locate a Muslim cleric with possible ties to a deadly cache of WMDs. But what they instead discover is a phenomenon beyond anything known to man. You cannot fight what isn t there. You cannot kill what doesn t live. And in a land ravaged by war and ruled by superstition, who or what is the ultimate enemy?… Full Story »
-
JBL Studio 190BK Floorstanding Loudspeaker First Look
Speaker Reviews on Audioholics &bull Aug 27, 2010
Where audio and video equipment undergoes rigorous objective and subjective tests by our staff, ensuring that marketing slogans aren't the only guidelines for your home theater choices. Learn about all sorts of authentic (if sometimes off-the-wall) products that you can spray on, tape on, insert into, or otherwise use to improve a room's acoustics. Sometimes a receiver or a format-converter isn't enough. In those cases, audio and video processors can do wonders to the sounds and sights in your home theater. Peruse our reviews of A/V processors to discover the ones you need. Receivers are often the heart of a… Full Story »
-
How do I configure my PC HMDI output for surround sound?
Home Theater Forum &bull Aug 27, 2010
Parker Clack replied to How do I configure my PC HMDI output for surround sound? Full Story »
-
Topics:
- Output
- Surround Sound
-
mynenni says "RCA Theater System is small but mighty!" about RCA RTD217 Theater System
Home Theater Reviews on ViewPoint &bull Aug 26, 2010When we were first married, my husband turned in his "work points" for the RCA RTD217 Theater System. At the time we didn't have cable and only watched DVDs and movies at home. This was a perfect edition to our… Full Story »
-
How to Select the Right Surround Sound for Blu-ray
Home Audio How-To's on eHow &bull Aug 26, 2010
Blu-ray players provide a beautiful picture with up to a 1080p resolution, and numerous Internet-enabled special features. What is lesser known, but arguably just as important, is that Blu-ray players also offer a substantial improvement in audio performance over standard DVD… Full Story »
