Installation of the Year Awards 2009 - Best Audio Installation- Home Entertainment Magazine - November 3, 2009
- The solution for an exceptionally large theater: towering speakers and towering amplifiers, all artfully concealed.
- How Class D Digital Amplifiers Work
- eCoustics Articles - May 14, 2009
- Get a Portable Audio Boost with Boostaroo
- TechLore - August 29, 2008
- I travel some and have a hard time hearing my music and videos on the airplanes. What I have found is that with a simple Portable Audio Amplifier I can amplify and enhance the sound quality to a much better level. There are a couple of different opti...
- Power Amplifiers: Ten Things You Always Wanted to Know
- eCoustics Articles - August 22, 2008
- What Is Amplifier Gain?
- eCoustics Articles - July 24, 2008
- Circuits of the Basic TV and What They Do - Part 3
- TechLore - June 9, 2008
- In Parts 1 and 2 of this series, we discussed many things: the standby power supply, main power supply, horizontal and vertical deflection circuits, degaussing, and tuners. In Part 3 of this series, we will discuss the IF (Intermediate Frequency), AG...
- CES 2008 Sneak Peak
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - January 4, 2008
- We are in the final countdown to this year's Consumer Electronics Show, one of the largest trade shows in the world. Here are a few products that look to be hot at the show. We will be writing more about them as they are announced next week. Aut...
- Common Car Amplifier Problems and Solutions
- TechLore - August 13, 2006
- Many car amplifiers are incorrectly diagnosed and sent in for
repair/returned because of incorrect hookup. Sometimes the amp itself
really is at fault. Here are a few common problems and what can be done
to troubleshoot, as well as fix them (my fixes...
- Secrets of Amplifier and Speaker Power Requirements Revealed
- eCoustics Articles - August 13, 2005
- Remote Control Thermostats
- TechLore - June 9, 2005
- While a thermostat may seem like a pretty mundane consumer electronics device, it was a great addition to my home theater. The thermostat in my family room is mounted on the same wall that my home theater system is on (TV, speakers, components, etc.)...
- Configuring Your Receiver for a Passive Subwoofer
- TechLore - May 7, 2005
- 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 su...
- Ask The Experts: Why Does My Receiver Say 'Protect'
- TechLore - February 22, 2005
- Question: Why does my new audio system for my tv say "protect" and then shut its self off? -submitted by mtnman Answer: Receivers can go into a protect mode for a few reasons. The most likely is that the positive and negative wires on one of the spe...
- Understanding Amplifier &Receiver Power Specifications
- TechLore - December 14, 2004
- It's no secret that it takes a lot of knowledge to truly understand the world of home audio, which is littered with confusing numbers and terms. Wattage, current, distortion, frequencies, and impedance are just a few of the specifications anyone look...
- Picking The Right Cables
- TechLore - December 14, 2004
- Why better cables?In 1979, a man named Noel Lee made a discovery. He determined that different cable materials impacted the sound when used to connect speakers to amplifiers. Noel used his discovery and crafted a special speaker wire using the name M...
Command Performance- Home Entertainment Magazine - September 1, 2003
- The pursuit of perfect sound in the home has given birth to towering speakers, cables of garden-hose girth and amplifiers that draw more power than a standard wall socket can provide.