Some readers have a dedicated audio or home theater room that just contains the electronic components and a few seats. Nothing to get in the way of the sound.
Heat is the main enemy of consumer electronics. Unfortunately, many amplifiers get hot during use, especially if they have any bias into Class A operation. I have several amplifiers that get quite hot
Windows Media Center’s days are numbered. What’s a diy HTPC owner to do? Last year I wrote about my diy HTPC system and how I’ve implemented various hardware and software to record...
One afternoon, many years ago now, a fellow Secrets editor and I were chewing the proverbial technology fat when the discussion turned to the future of DVD and Blu-ray. “Disc is dead!” he declared...
If you are like many home theater enthusiasts, you probably have your high definition display, either a flat panel or projector, some distance from your equipment rack. And, like most, you use an inexpensive HDMI cable.
For those of you who not only listen to music, but play music as well, and if you play virtual instruments such as electronic drums or piano, you probably use the computer’s own audio chipset...
Now that 4K video cameras are appearing on the market at prices the Indie Film Producers can afford, the lens is the emerging factor that has to be of concern. In this article, I show the performance of some lenses that fit 4K video cameras, and which are inexpensive. Do they perform satisfactorily?
Normally, my system has no hum issues. But lately, the “component count” has increased to the point where different components are plugged into different outlets in my listening room. Most of the time, this isn’t a problem...
DACs have an electronic characteristic called "Linearity" which means how close the output follows the input. DACs with less linearity can sound more detailed, as long as they have good time domain performance.
Do you have a complex audio or home theater system and have trouble getting everything to turn on at once? I do. While everything downstream of my Pre-Pro has 12V trigger control...
So many of us find that as our audio electronics collection grows (disc players, turntables, preamps, power amplifiers, gadgets, etc.) that our power wiring resembles...
Have you installed a new cartridge in your turntable and set the tracking force with one of the cheap "beam" type stylus force gauges and wondered if the setting was really accurate?
If you have some electrostatic speakers, and they sound harsh, it is probably due to your power amplifier having trouble with the resonance of the transformer in the speaker. This transformer raises the amplifier voltage to a higher voltage that goes to the stators. This problem can be alleviated by the use of a Zobel network.
New audio and video codecs are arriving by the train-load. Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos, DTS-X, Auro-3D, Master Quality Authenticated (MQA), and whatever their competitors create (they are in a hurry to do that right now).
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