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Speaker Impedance Rating Explained


That speaker impedance rating on your towers and bookshelf speakers is held up as a mystery—something strange and mystic, yet dangerous. “You’ll blow up your receiver!” says one “expert”. “Bah! You can run anything you want, just set that switch in the back to 4-ohms” says another. The bottom line is that people are confused […]


Room Acoustics for Home Theater


Possibly one of the most confusing aspects of setting up a home theater is dealing with room acoustics. Every room has acoustics—that’s simply a word used to describe what happens when audio is produced (or reproduced) in the room. Room acoustics are more or less the audio character or signature of your room. Some rooms […]


Speaker Placement Guidelines and Tips


Every now and then I like to remind our readers that sometimes, just sometimes, you can improve your home theater simply by taking a fresh look at your room and adjusting your speaker placement. In particular, there are ways in which a good pair of speakers can become a great pair of speakers just by taking […]


Fluance AB40 High-Performance Soundbase Review


Fluance AB40 Ditches the Subwoofer, Still Drops That Bass TV speakers, as a general rule, are kind of lackluster, and I’ve been relying on mine for years. Every dramatic, suspenseful moment, every epic special effect, every dulcet vocal tone is made less intense by the tinny, undersized speakers of my Samsung television. TV speakers also […]