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How Does Listening Room Acoustics Affect Sound Quality? How Does Listening Room Acoustics Affect Sound Quality? This article discusses how room acoustics affect sound quality including standing waves, early reflections and how to deal with them to optimize the sound of your home theater listening space.
Crimping & Soldering - Keys to Connection Performance and Longevity Crimping & Soldering - Keys to Connection Performance and Longevity Audio and Video Cables are not just dependent on the wire or cable used, or the connectors used. The quality of the connection between the wire or cable and connector is just as important, if not…
What Do HDMI Spec Versions (1.2, 1.3, 1.3a, etc) Mean For Cable Choice? What Do HDMI Spec Versions (1.2, 1.3, 1.3a, etc) Mean For Cable Choice? Many people are worried, when buying HDMI cable, about the spec version of the cable in question. Is it the latest spec version? Will it support all the features of the devices it's hooked to? Most…
Do I Need 120 Hertz HDMI Cables? Do I Need 120 Hertz HDMI Cables? One of the most common sorts of questions from our customers these days is some variant on this: "Do I really need a 120Hz HDMI Cable?" In consumer electronics stores across the country, consumers…
Myth vs Reality – Putting Cat5E-Based A/V Structured Wiring In Its Place Myth vs Reality – Putting Cat5E-Based A/V Structured Wiring In Its Place Sending audio, video and control signals over twisted pair cables have become common practice in the contemporary marketplace. There is a good reason for this. Twisted pair cables are cheap,…
10 Things about Audio Amplifiers You've Always Wanted to Know 10 Things about Audio Amplifiers You've Always Wanted to Know Alan Lofft, Axiom Audio's Resident Expert, took a series of the most commonly asked questions he received about amplifiers, and transformed his answers into an informative editorial. In this article…
Flat Panel Trends - Thin is In and Speed Kills Flat Panel Trends - Thin is In and Speed Kills Flat panel televisions are continuing to transform in teh marketplace. This year we saw a great number of companies looking to go "thin". While flat panels are traditionally advertised as being…
Upscaling is your Friend? Upscaling is your Friend? Gefen, Toshiba, DVDO... they all want to sell you on the joys of upscaling. Some of them incorporate their technology into their displays or dvd players (Toshiba) while the others want you to…
Wireless HDMI Takes Flight Wireless HDMI Takes Flight Wireless HDMI seems to be coming to a living room near you. While everyone pretty much agrees that HDMI is the most bitter-sweet invention to hit the consumer AV electronics industry in some time,…
Loudspeaker Power Ratings: What's the Deal Part II? Loudspeaker Power Ratings: What's the Deal Part II? We discuss the mechanics of loudspeaker clipping and work several examples of product failure to better understand power ratings.