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Kaleidescape - The Best 4K Dolby Atmos Source EVER?
You are not experiencing the full benefit of your great projector, screen, and Atmos speakers until you add a Kaleidescape movie server to your system. Watch our overview now!
Best Home Theater Audio Upgrades & Optimizations
Whether you’re researching for a future home theater installation or exploring ways to enhance your current home theater, we’ve created a series of videos to walk you through upgrades to make optimizing your setup easier — including everything you need to know, from tweaking your picture to improving the acoustics in your room. In this particular video, we give you some tips for improving the audio in your theater or media room.
How to Optimize Your Center Channel Speaker in a Home Theater System
If you are a home theater enthusiast, you are probably aware of how important a role the center channel speaker plays in a great home theater experience. Here, we will give some basic set up tips and hopefully even a couple of suggestions for experts that will help you get the most out of your center channel speaker.
Best Home Theater Video Upgrades and Optimizations
Check out our free tips on how to improve the picture performance of your home theater’s TV or front projector. We go over some simple steps that will allow you to fine-tune your picture like a pro. Whether you have a new home theater or yours has some age on it, these tips are sure to make you smile when you see the improvements.
Projector Panel Alignment: How To Align The Red-Green-Blue (RGB) Panels On Your Projector
Almost all front projectors have 3 panels in their light engine. Aligning the component colors of the projector ensures that the different pixels, or electron beams, sit in the correct position for the proper color to be displayed. This step is critical in ensuring that the picture is displayed exactly as the filmmaker intended.
How to Reduce Rattles In Your Home Theater
Imagine you are really getting into a great action movie, the spaceship lands, and all of a sudden, you hear this terrible buzzing or rattling sound coming from somewhere in your room. The effect of the movie has just been totally ruined. This tip breaks down how to find and eliminate noises your room might be making due to vents, furniture, lighting, and other fixtures in your home.
How To Perfectly Set Lip Sync Calibration In Your Home Theater
Follow along in our guide where we help explain how and give you the right tools to perfectly set lip sync in your home theater.
How To Calibrate Brightness & Contrast Settings On Your Projector Or Television
This tip is designed to help you nail down the right contrast and brightness settings on your television or projector. If you have not yet watched our Top 5 Tips for improving your Home Theater video, we would suggest you watch that first as it covers all of the major items you want to adjust in order, including brightness and contrast.
How To Get Perfect Focus On Your Front Projector
This tip is designed to help you perfectly focus your projector and is part of our Top 5 Tips For Improving Your Home Theater Video series. You can follow these steps using your projector’s pattern or we show you in this video. Make sure your projector has warmed up for at least 20 minutes before running this test.
How To Calibrate Sharpness Settings On A Home Theater Projector or Television
If you follow these tips, you can substantially improve your home theater or media room. This tip breaks down how to get the perfect sharpness settings on your television or front projector.
Pro-Ject Debut PRO Turntable Setup Guide
Setting up your Pro-Ject PRO turntable will be fun and go smoothly if you prepare for everything you’ll need in advance. We hope this guide enables you to be spinning some vinyl and enjoying music faster than you expected.
How to Set Up Intercom Anywhere In The Control4 App
We are super excited to announce Control4 has combined Intercom Anywhere with the Control4 OS3 app for the iPhone. This enhancement to the Control4 app greatly improves your Intercom experience. No longer do you have to jump apps to use your intercom; it is all managed from one easy-to-use interface.
Devialet Phantom Tips and Tricks for Optimal Setup
Setting up a Devialet Phantom is pretty straightforward. However, there are some tips & tricks that will optimize the omnidirectional soundstage for your listening space. This quick setup guide will ensure you get the most impressive sound field for listening to music or even enjoying all of your favorite movies when connected with your TV. Watch now!
Vicoustic Home Theater Acoustic Treatment Options Overview & Comparison
Phantoms are ultra-high-end wireless speakers that let people know how serious you are about sound & brilliant design. They deliver a level of performance comparable to large hi-fi systems in easy-to-use, compact speaker systems. There are 6 Phantom models & we compare each one in terms of price-point, aesthetics & performance to help you find the perfect one.
How to Hang Acoustic Panels
Although hanging acoustic panels in a home theater or listening room is not too difficult, it does require a little thought & planning. In this video, we show you two effective methods we use here at Audio Advice that are easy for the average DIYer.
How To Choose the Right Devialet Phantom
Phantoms are ultra-high-end wireless speakers that let people know how serious you are about sound & brilliant design. They deliver a level of performance comparable to large hi-fi systems in easy-to-use, compact speaker systems. There are 6 Phantom models & we compare each one in terms of price-point, aesthetics & performance to help you find the perfect one.
