A high-quality home theater experience relies heavily on optimizing speaker systems for clear and accurate sound. Room acoustics and speaker placement are crucial for avoiding echoes, reverberation, ...

Today's receivers are so jam-packed with features they can be a hassle to set up and use. Is there a receiver made your mom could use? Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked ...

When you're building a home theater system, most people get excited about speakers, the size of the TV or projector, and the idea of surround sound shaking the room. But one piece quietly does all the ...

LFE is a common term in home theater audio, but it doesn’t mean what you might think it does. The LFE channel is designed to deliver low-frequency information to supplement the overall bass content.

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Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

Are you happy with the sound of two-channel music played back in your home theater? It’s not unusual for even a high-quality home theater to deliver less than stellar stereo or 2.1-channel music ...

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The McIntosh MHT300 AV Receiver offers support for Dolby Atmos, Dirac Live, and delivers a lot of power. Does it offer enough to be competitive at $8,000? McIntosh Group is getting very serious about ...

New York-based prestige audio brand McIntosh this week launched the MHT300, an $8,000, 7.2-channel home theater receiver that boasts a monstrous 120 watts to 150 watts per channel of power. That’s ...