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AuthorTransfering Film to Blu-ray/DVD
January 12th, 2011, In Audio Video Technology, Features, by admin
It is easy to see how you might be tempted to think that the quality of a movie on DVD is better than that in the movie theater. Today’s DVDs do look good, especially if you have a good television, there’s no doubt about that. Flickering picture, sparkle and large easily detectable artifacts that… Continue Reading
Blue Laser Technology
January 12th, 2011, In Audio Video Technology, Features, by admin
You might have actually liked 8-tracks – or not even know what they are – and vinyl, and cassettes, but unless you’re a DJ, you don’t buy any of these anymore. Why? Because the trend over the past 20 years has been towards media formats with increased space for more songs, and better sound… Continue Reading
DLP Technology
January 12th, 2011, In Audio Video Technology, Features, by admin
With all the talk of Plasma technology and the great quality of television it produces, it seems that other competing technologies are getting left by the wayside. But one of these, DLP technology, is gaining huge ground not only based on its picture quality, but also on its cost-effectiveness. DLP images are basically created… Continue Reading
Furutech DIY Power Cable Project
January 10th, 2011, In DIY (do it yourself), Features, by admin
Have you ever thought about trying a DIY audio project but shied away from it because of its level of difficultly? Well, here’s a power cable DIY project that just about anyone should be able to complete, even those that aren’t too handy. What’s the appeal of a DIY project you ask? You get… Continue Reading
Building a Basement Home Theatre? Here’s What You Need To Know
January 10th, 2011, In Features, Home Theater Setup and Connection, by admin
Basement home theatres are the ultimate urban status symbol. This space has everything going for it: little natural light, away from the rest of the family’s activities, and likely a pristine space that gives you studs and cement to play with. Building a dedicated basement home theatre can raise the potential market value of… Continue Reading
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Connecting your Home Theater with the Proper Cables
January 10th, 2011, In Features, Home Theater Setup and Connection, Video, by admin
So you’ve purchased all the best home theater gear you could afford and now it’s time to hook it all up. Of course you’ve also set aside enough money for interconnect cables and speaker wires. Yes, it’s true that most components come with free cables, but often these cables simply don’t do justice to… Continue Reading
Improve the Sound in Your Home Theatre
January 10th, 2011, In Audio, Features, Home Theater Setup and Connection, Improving the Sound of Your System/Room Acoustics, by admin
Improve the Sound in Your Home Theatre: Hot tips that every home theatre system can benefit from! It doesn’t matter whether you spend two thousand or fifty thousand dollars on your home theatre – if your gear isn’t positioned and configured properly – you’re not enjoying the full potential of your home theatre. Before… Continue Reading
Latest Generation Video Game Consoles (and how to connect them properly)
January 10th, 2011, In Features, Home Theater Setup and Connection, Video, by admin
I may not have any real-life combat training but if aliens ever attack our planet, I’ll be more than happy to fight them; just hand me the latest blaster rifle. After all, I’ve saved the world from evil forces many times. And I know that I’m not the only one. Millions of gamers around… Continue Reading
The Art of Turntable and Vinyl Maintenance
Come close, I’m going to let you into the secret for keeping your vinyl collection clean. Are you ready? Don’t let them get dirty in the first place. After building a large collection of records over many years, I have seldom needed to take any drastic action to clean a dusty or dirty album,… Continue Reading
Recommended Turntable Accessories
What’s a poor audiophile to do? You’ve saved your hard earned money for a beautiful new turntable and are spending your beer money on albums at every opportunity, but you’re not sure it’s all set up right, and you’re getting dust and static on all your records. It’s time to max out your… Continue Reading
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The Beatles Remastered – The New CD Collection
The Beatles CDs first appeared in 1987 in disappointing sound, vastly inferior to the original vinyl pressings from the 60′s. That’s what we’ve been stuck with for over 20 years. Until now that is. Finally a full remastering project gives us the music we love, in Technicolor. Apple Records has left no stone unturned… Continue Reading
Dolby Pro Logic IIz and Audyssey DSX Technologies Explained and Reviewed
The benefits of watching a movie or listening to music in a 5.1-channel home theatre are undeniable. A well mixed movie soundtrack can make you feel like you’re part of the on-screen action. A well mixed concert disc can place you right in the audience. Although 7.1-channel AV receivers have been available for a… Continue Reading
Getting High Resolution Audio From a Blu-ray Player
January 10th, 2011, In Audio, Features, Home Theater Setup and Connection, by admin
Now that the high definition disc format war has come to a close, the number of Blu-ray players in consumer homes’ is steadily climbing. The benefits that a 1080p Blu-ray picture can bring to our television screens at home are undeniable. But the picture improvement over the standard DVD format is only half the… Continue Reading
iPod Docking Ideas!
Think that every iPod docking system is pretty much the same? Not so my friend. There are more models of iPod docking systems than coffee flavours at Starbucks – tons more infact! What separates one docking system from another are sound quality and features. Most really small, inexpensive docking solutions sound, well, lousy. But docking… Continue Reading
Multi-room Sound System Options
It used to be that networks and the Internet were the lingo of nerds in computer labs. These days, terms like downloading and WiFi have become part of our daily vocabulary. Maybe I hang out in tech welcoming circles, but almost everyone I know has a wireless network in their home. Network or not,… Continue Reading
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Dolby Plus, Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD and DTS-HD Master Audio: Next Generation Audio
These are exciting times for home theatre enthusiasts. The goal of replicating the movie theatre experience in our own homes is becoming increasingly possible. Unfortunately competing standards and formats are making it difficult for consumers to appreciate, understand and accept the latest technology. The heavy weight battle is between Plasma and LCD flat panel… Continue Reading
Two-channel Solid State Music Systems Group Test (Cambridge Audio, NAD, ARCAM and more)
It’s truly remarkable just how different the same CD album can sound on different two-channel music systems. Every amplifier and every CD player has their own sound characteristics and qualities. Sometimes these characteristics are subtle and other times they can be very obvious. Below we evaluate three two-channel music systems ranging from $1000 to… Continue Reading
The Home Theatre Experience: An Introduction
Home theatre has come a long way since the days of hooking up a Dolby Surround processor to your stereo receiver and HiFi VCR. Maybe you were such an enthusiast in the late 80s that you bought a Laserdisc player. If you did, you got to experience 400 lines of video resolution, as opposed… Continue Reading
DTS Surround Music
It seems that the record label industry has gone “format-happy”. Perhaps “format-crazy” is a more appropriate term. The introduction of all of the new audio formats has left us at Toronto HiFi scratching our heads. Most consumers are also confused and have not even heard about these new formats. We demanded some answers and… Continue Reading
Generation MP3: Digital Music Players
With the introduction of the MP3 file format in the mid 90s the music industry was turned on its head. MP3 refers to MPEG 1 Audio Layer 3. It is an audio encoding and compression format that was designed to reduce the amount of data required to represent audio. This is achieved by discarding… Continue Reading
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