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Compare Denon and Marantz AVRs for 2025—explore features, performance, and prices to find the best home theater receiver for your setup, from budget to...
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RGB Mini LED and Micro RGB TVs improve LCD picture quality with higher brightness and wider color gamut, but still face LCD limits. Learn...
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A new wave of Bluetooth USB-C adapters extend the life of laptops, iPads and phones by enabling higher audio quality to wireless headphones.
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Who needs a preamp in 2025? Anyone who’s not into lifeless, app-controlled audio hell. Here’s why real systems still need real control.
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In your A/V receiver’s setup menu enter the distance between the best (center seat) listening position and each surround speaker. If each surround speaker...
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Book excerpt from Audiophile's Guide: The Stereo, explains how to think about budgeting for a high-end audio system.
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Avoid setting your speakers, even if they are floorstanding tower loudspeakers, to the "large" setting in your A/V receiver's setup menus.
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We'll explain how to setup your digital home theater system for the best performance with any size loudspeakers.
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Years ago as a passionate enthusiast, and long before I began editing magazines and writing articles about sound reproduction and video, I was totally...
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Assuming competently designed subwoofers (not white van “one-note subs”), I believe that all such impressions of “tight” or “flabby” bass are almost entirely the...
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