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How to Clean Vinyl Records and Care For Them Properly
As vinyl enthusiasts can attest, enjoying music to its fullest depends on three factors: the equipment you choose, how well you care for it, and how you treat your records. To avoid damaging your records, you’ve got to pamper them. Treat your vinyl right, and you’ll enjoy crystal clear sound every time.
How to Clean Your Turntable Stylus (And Why You Should)
If your stylus has dirt or dust on it, it can transfer those contaminants to every record you play. Over time, a dirty stylus can damage your vinyl, especially when the gunk it leaves on your records burrows deep into the grooves and hardens.
10 Essential Tips for Aspiring Vinyl Enthusiasts
From the stylus to your speakers, the following ten tips are designed to help you, the budding vinyl connoisseur, optimize your setup and enjoy music to its fullest. We’ll show you the best ways to select and clean your records, too.
Earphones | In-Ear vs. On-Ear vs. Over-Ear
We think there is a time and place for each of these types of headphones. Let’s take a look at each style and talk about how they perform in three primary areas — portability, comfort, and performance.
7.4.4 Dolby Atmos Home Theater Installation Featuring Revel, JL Audio, & JVC
In this showcase, we are super excited to show you a killer 7.4.4 theater we just finished installing in an unfinished 3rd-floor attic. Watch our video, where we show you the space before we started and how we attacked the design challenges. Then, we show you a full timelapse of the buildout and installation. Finally, we demo the theater with our binaural mic setup that simulates you sitting in the room.
MASSIVE 179” Screen w/ 177 Speaker Drivers & 10,000 Lumens! Sony, MartinLogan, JL Audio
This ultra-high-performance home theater has 177 speaker drivers and a 10,000-lumen projector! The customer wanted to update their previous theater to the highest audio and video performance possible. Given the size of the room and the sheer power of the audio system behind it, it truly was one of the most immersive theaters we had ever seen when we were finished.
Heco Aurora Speaker Series Overview
Heco Aurora models have been heralded by independent US-based reviewers as offering extraordinary value for their price. We thought it would be fun to take a deeper look at the Aurora series to dive into the tech that makes up these exceptional speakers.
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.
Kanto Audio Powered Speaker Comparison
Kanto Audio has been on our radar for the past few years, but we brushed them off as just another brand trying to take a piece of the powered speaker market. At CES 2017, however, we wandered into their room and found a lineup of small speakers in an impressive variety of colors.
We almost walked out, but after taking a look at the back of one of them, we asked for a short listen. It did not take us long to realize that these guys knew a bit about speaker design and style.
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.
Best Home Theater Video Upgrades and Optimizations
Check out our free tips on how to improve the picture performance of your home theater’s TV or front projector. We go over some simple steps that will allow you to fine-tune your picture like a pro. Whether you have a new home theater or yours has some age on it, these tips are sure to make you smile when you see the improvements.
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.
