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Valentines Day Electronics Gift Guide 2012 If you really love your wife or girlfriend this Valentine's Day, why not give her something she'll really enjoy - like a brand new subwoofer! Um... maybe not, but there are plenty of electronic gifts.

5 Media Christmas Gift Ideas for 2011 Media makes a casual and affordable Christmas gift. Sure, everyone wants brand new gear, there’s nothing like receiving a new subwoofer or receiver as a Christmas gift.

2011 Audioholics Product of the Year Award Winners 2011 proved to be a year of economic recovery in the A/V industry. It seemed apparent to us that many major manufacturers came out with a slew of new and improved products. Many we liked. A whole lot.

2011 Consumer Electronics Christmas Gifts Guide Each year we put out a consumer electronics Christmas Gift Guide for our readers. This is simply a guide that takes a wide swath of products from 2011 across the industry and compiles them here.

HAA TurboCal Training Course Overview The TurboCal course is really just a quick way to get some really good sound in a system. It benefits the Installer, the customer and even the Do-It-Yourselfers.

Using a Relay Rack for Accessible AV Equipment To hide your AV equipment you need a few things. For one, you need a closet or space to put them in. Secondly, you need a rack or shelf system and the proper accessories to make everything accessible.

Buying the Right Kindle Cover like all new implementations of portable electronic technology, the Kindle needs to be protected - unless you don't mind having to buy a new one if you drop it accidentally.

Upgrading In-ceiling Speakers for Whole Home Audio with Niles While many of us would love to spend the majority of our day locked in our man-caves or home theaters listening to music on our big audio rigs, the reality is that we don't. So how do we upgrade?

LED Lamps to Replace Incandescent Bulbs - But When? Have you been keeping up with the LED lighting movement? I'd even go so far as to call it a "transition". The future is here - it's just a tad expensive right now. That's going to end soon. Real soon.

2011 $3500 Recommended Home Theater System There are as many ways to build a $3500 home theater system as there are people. Chances are, you have some of this stuff already but we think our list is a great resource for figuring out what next.