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My Atmos home theater would be built around the following: Replace existing Denon AVR. Replace current speakers with a new Definitive Technology set of Atmos speakers in a 5.1.4 arrangement with the front and rear Atmos speakers mounted on top of the DF fronts and surrounds relying on ceiling...

I have a set up that uses small satellites for the left, right, and surrounds. But, I use two sub woofers. The first is a passive unit (12" dual voice coil) through which the leads to my left and right front speakers run. The way I have it voiced is so that the sub's high-pass filter is set to...

If you do use a big, stacked driver, speaker, place it vertically. The point of the center speaker is to improve dialogue. One reason why most center speakers have woofers on either side of a tweeter is so that to focal point will be the center of the speaker. With a tower on its side, the focal...

This will be a real problem. These speakers you have were designed with stereo in mind, not home theater. They are not as large as the 9 series, but nonetheless, they were designed to be used for stereo. In the age of quadraphonic music, if one had enough money, buying four just to hear Carmina...

If possible, get the distance between the source and the receiver and the display to a minimum, 2 meters or less. Then, unless you've bought a bootleg cable, almost any cable will work for even HDMI 1.4. As stated above, the gauge of the wire isn't as important as the connector. A poor...

My TomTom was stolen from my car when some one crawled in through a broken rear window to remove it, its charger, and the charger for my cell phone. Rear window was broken by a vandal who threw a brick at it on the road on the Friday before Halloween as I was attempting to follow a TomTom...

My van has an AUX in as part of its system - yes, I said van, but I can't haul an electric wheel chair in a two-seater. Anyway, that appear to be too attractive to someone and so my Tom Tom was taken along with its base, charger and cables while I was in the hospital having back surgery. The...

Jim, You are confusing a computer monitor with a video display, which is quiet easy to do. If you want a 42-inch display for TV and you aren't ready to show HDTV on it now - including BD movies - then WAIT and just purchase the size computer monitor you need, and it probably won't be...

When I was a kid, I was the official school projectionist from grade 2 to grade 5 – it was a two-room school, but I wore that Bell & Howell pin proudly. Later in high school, I was the official AV guy because I was the only student excused from Physical Education following a back injury in a...

You should not be able to hear sub-woofer hum at all. If you do, there may be one of three problems, two of which you can address. The first has to do with the polarity of the power line. If the plug is two-pronged and both are the same size, then you can try to reverse it in the wall jack and...

Here's the primary thing with screens, you want a diffuse reflection of light back at you in a small setting. This gives you a brighter appearing image without hot spots. So, look for a screen with a gain of around 1. to 1.3. Screen Innovations makes an excellent screen. So to StudioTek and...

If you go to your local lumber store - not Lowes or Home Depot, but an independently owned store or a Do It Center - and give them the dimensions of what you need, they'll typically cut a piece for you. Since the TV is relatively heavy at 80 pounds, I'd recommend that you ask them to cut...

If I had those Pioneer front speakers, I'd reserve them for a stereo set up to listen to music only. I have a set of speakers that I have kept for that - actually they are prototypes of a speaker that was never produced, but I have invested time in them and I keep them for music only. My...

Your are mixing way too much. Forget the center speaker if you are using the Ohm speakers. If you are more than 6 feet or so away from your screen, but plan to sit so that you are centered, work on setting up a virtual center. The Ohm speakers have great dispersion and tend to, as it is said...

Given that your Pioneer CS-G403 speakers have a 15-inch woofer and that you are trying to get your Yamaha sub with its 8-inch driver to provide the low bass with a loudness and efficiency match to the Pioneers, you are building an unclimbable wall. Yes Audyssey will set up the system, but that...