One of the challenges to living in a 1920's bungalow home is running wires everywhere they're needed. Sometimes the practicality of a home or room layout [More...]

I've seen lots of errors in my time as more and more of friends, family and clients start hooking up a home theater system. These [More...]

Focal North America showed off its newest lines of custom integration speakers at its 2015 event in Phoenix, Arizona. Focal has a lot of residential solutions [More...]

I find with many rooms it's easy to place the front speakers. Even the center channel seems to be something that finds its place below [More...]

I've got a brother-in-law who's building a house. He was asking me about many different things having to do with wiring up the home, but [More...]

Home theater terms can be a bit daunting. If you've ever been around somebody who knows home theater, you might have felt like your knowledge [More...]

It's not uncommon to want to distribute audio throughout your home, but how do you do it? There are several ways to look at whole [More...]

When my friends start asking about adding surround sound speakers I get excited. But then they lament about running the wires, and I have to [More...]

When I worked at Soundelux, a post production studio which had a branch located in Orlando, FL, I was surrounded by racks. Racks of patch [More...]

When you're wiring up your home theater, don't get confused by all of the options available to you. Rather, use them to your advantage by [More...]

Triad Speakers added two new Bronze SlimSubs to its line-up, including a slim in-room subwoofer (InRoom Bronze SlimSub) and an on-wall subwoofer (OnWall Bronze SlimSub). The new subs are actually [More...]

Wicked Audio sent us their Divvy Splitter, a headphone splitter that allows a single output to be split for two independent users. The Wicked Audio Divvy [More...]

While the thought of a brand new surround sound system might be grand, understanding all of the types of audio and video home theater cables and connections [More...]

One of the things I often notice when listening to various surround sound systems is a disparity in either the subwoofer levels or the levels [More...]

I've seen a lot of outdoor audio wiring for speakers where the audio wiring is what I'd call...well, I'd just call it sloppy. Leave a pair of speaker [More...]

At one time I wished everyone could have gigantor speakers—tower speakers that would make sense only in a room with 12-foot tall ceilings occupied by [More...]

I could go on and and about the failings of HDMI in the custom installation market. Every time I speak with an installer I hear [More...]

So we came across this really cool idea. What if you replaced your light switches with super-sensitive capacitance sensors that let you wave your hand [More...]