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DIY 5.1 Home Theater Setup w/ Heco Speakers & Sony Television In Rented Townhome
For this tour, we are in a townhome that is being rented by one of our customers. When it comes to creating an immersive theater experience, a lot of construction can often be involved. This just simply isn’t feasible when you’re renting a space and don’t want to knock a ton of holes in your walls. Another challenging aspect of this living room is that it is not a perfect square or rectangular room. In this townhome, the dining area is attached, making it one large room with some strange dimensions. In this video, we show you how this customer used our Free 3D Home Theater Design Tool to create an immersive DIY home theater experience in their own rented living space without breaking the bank.
Heco Ambient On-Wall Speaker Review
Heco Ambient speakers are equipped with integrated, extremely flat mounting fixtures, which make wall installation extremely easy. They are the perfect solution if you live in a rental or temporary home, or for those who do not want to cut holes in your walls. If you're into home theater, you know you get the most immersive experience if all of your speakers are closely matched. Heco makes this easier than any speaker line we have seen with all of their models using the same type of speaker components, allowing you to mix models and sizes, to get the combination that is perfect for your room and budget.
Kaleidescape - The Best 4K Dolby Atmos Source EVER?
You are not experiencing the full benefit of your great projector, screen, and Atmos speakers until you add a Kaleidescape movie server to your system. Watch our overview now!
Best Home Theater Audio Upgrades & Optimizations
Whether you’re researching for a future home theater installation or exploring ways to enhance your current home theater, we’ve created a series of videos to walk you through upgrades to make optimizing your setup easier — including everything you need to know, from tweaking your picture to improving the acoustics in your room. In this particular video, we give you some tips for improving the audio in your theater or media room.
How to Optimize Your Center Channel Speaker in a Home Theater System
If you are a home theater enthusiast, you are probably aware of how important a role the center channel speaker plays in a great home theater experience. Here, we will give some basic set up tips and hopefully even a couple of suggestions for experts that will help you get the most out of your center channel speaker.
Projector Panel Alignment: How To Align The Red-Green-Blue (RGB) Panels On Your Projector
Almost all front projectors have 3 panels in their light engine. Aligning the component colors of the projector ensures that the different pixels, or electron beams, sit in the correct position for the proper color to be displayed. This step is critical in ensuring that the picture is displayed exactly as the filmmaker intended.
How to Reduce Rattles In Your Home Theater
Imagine you are really getting into a great action movie, the spaceship lands, and all of a sudden, you hear this terrible buzzing or rattling sound coming from somewhere in your room. The effect of the movie has just been totally ruined. This tip breaks down how to find and eliminate noises your room might be making due to vents, furniture, lighting, and other fixtures in your home.
How To Perfectly Set Lip Sync Calibration In Your Home Theater
Follow along in our guide where we help explain how and give you the right tools to perfectly set lip sync in your home theater.
How To Calibrate Brightness & Contrast Settings On Your Projector Or Television
This tip is designed to help you nail down the right contrast and brightness settings on your television or projector. If you have not yet watched our Top 5 Tips for improving your Home Theater video, we would suggest you watch that first as it covers all of the major items you want to adjust in order, including brightness and contrast.
How To Get Perfect Focus On Your Front Projector
This tip is designed to help you perfectly focus your projector and is part of our Top 5 Tips For Improving Your Home Theater Video series. You can follow these steps using your projector’s pattern or we show you in this video. Make sure your projector has warmed up for at least 20 minutes before running this test.
How To Calibrate Sharpness Settings On A Home Theater Projector or Television
If you follow these tips, you can substantially improve your home theater or media room. This tip breaks down how to get the perfect sharpness settings on your television or front projector.
Vicoustic Home Theater Acoustic Treatment Options Overview & Comparison
Phantoms are ultra-high-end wireless speakers that let people know how serious you are about sound & brilliant design. They deliver a level of performance comparable to large hi-fi systems in easy-to-use, compact speaker systems. There are 6 Phantom models & we compare each one in terms of price-point, aesthetics & performance to help you find the perfect one.
Heco 5.1.2 Premium Home Theater Showcase
Watch our latest video featuring a near-field home theater that we recently installed in a relatively compact bonus room. While we have many home theater showcases, the majority of them cover homes with dedicated theater rooms. The reality is that many people don’t have that kind of extra space available, but still want to create a cinematic experience in their homes. In this video, we’re going to show you how you can put a terrific theater in a more compact space, such as a bonus room, living room, or larger bedroom. Check out the overview where we look at what the space looked like before we started installing, a full time-lapse of the install, and then a demo of a few clips to see how well it performs.
Audio Advice Revolution Home Theater Seating Setup Guide
Our guide will help you get your Audio Advice Revolution Home Theater seating set up and ready for maximum comfort when enjoying your favorite movies in your home theater!
Home Theater Design Best Practices
A guide on how to design your ideal home theater or media room so all your friends and family experience a beautiful picture with great surround sound. Learn about how the dimensions of your room can impact the sound, finding the ideal screen viewing height, and how to design a home theater riser so everyone has a great seat.
JVC DLA-NZ Series Projector Comparison
Discover the incredible picture quality of the JVC DLA-NZ 8K Home Theater Projector lineup. We were very excited when JVC gave us the early scoop on these new projectors and provided us with a sample to test weeks before the official release. Watch our overview where we cover the great features these 3 new projectors share, then get into the differences as you move up in the series.
