- How To Improve A/V Performance By Using the Best Connections
- TechLore - December 14, 2004
- In the world of today's consumer electronics, you have a wide variety of connection choices. If you're somewhat with the times, you abandoned the screw-type RF connection years ago, and went to a line level "composite video connection." Composite vid...
- 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...
- What To Do If You Run Out of Inputs On Your TV
- TechLore - December 14, 2004
- Limited, or Out of Inputs?All TVs have a limited number of inputs, but some are much more limiting than others, especially if your set only allows for one external device. Whatever the situation, limitations surface in every home theater setup. Maybe...
- What is HAVi?
- TechLore - December 14, 2004
- "HAVi" is the acronym for home audio/video interoperability. HAVi is an advanced layer of communication protocols for devices using the IEEE 1394 (a.k.a. FireWire or i.Link) standard. IEEE-1394 allows home theater components to be networked using a h...
- How to Play MP3 Files on Your Home Stereo Without a Computer
- TechLore - December 14, 2004
- 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, e...
- How To Calibrate Your Surround Sytem Using an SPL Meter
- TechLore - December 14, 2004
- 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 volume output of e...
- How to use the TV's front convenience jacks
- TechLore - December 14, 2004
- Most TVs these days are equipped with an audio/video input on the front. These extra jacks are really handy for hooking up something quickly to the TV set like game systems, cameras, and camcorders. Usually, these devices are not a permanent fixture ...