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Astro Gaming sells a popular set of headphones along with a receiver and transmitter that appear to be a good option if you want to use headphones in your home theater. This system can be used with up to four sets of headphones. It requires a TOSlink optical input to function and will support 7.1… Read more
Room acoustical performance is a huge factor in sound reproduction quality. A quality room needs to have a certain reverberation quality and sound should scatter naturally throughout the room. I have been using Auralex DST-R sound tiles in my theater to add diffusion to my dedicated home theater. Most home theaters have bare walls that need acoustic… Read more
I recently had the opportunity to work on a 5.1 surround system that had a new Pioneer receiver with the virtual surround back channel feature. This feature should simulate the left and right back channels by putting part of the sound in the right and left surround channels and creating a synthetic channel between the left… Read more
The gauge of speaker wire that should be used in a theater depends on the power loss you are willing to accept. Braded wire is recommended in general to avoid affecting high frequency performance. I would target a maximum of 0.5 db loss or 11 percent using the attached table. If you want to target an imperceptible… Read more
I recently had a chance to work on an Emotiva UMC-1 coupled with Emotiva XPA-5 and XPA-2 power amplifiers. This combination is an amazing value. The UMC-1 processor lists for $699 and has features competitive with units many times its price. The XPA-5 lists for $799 with 200 watts per channel capacity and the XPA-2… Read more
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