Recent content by Jason Charlton

Not knocking you, just the press release... lol.

As I haven't listened to either system, I can't vouch for their sound quality or their user interfaces. Generally speaking, the performance of these types of "all-in-one" systems are passable for smallish rooms, but will really struggle to produce decent results in any large space. One telling...

Neither one has any HDMI inputs, so if you don't need digital surround sound for any other sources (cable, satellite, game system, etc.) then both systems are comparable. If you are going to try to use ARC with your display, choose the brand that matches your display - that will improve the odds...

To piggy back on Al's comment, I'm curious where you found the information for the cube impedance and frequency response? Bose is notoriously secretive when it comes to the actual performance specs of their cube speakers.

For purposes of playing around, there is no reason you have to stick with the Bose cubes, however the "magic" of Bose is that the Bass Module (not sub) includes a lot of proprietary processing that is designed to overcome the performance limitations of the cubes as well as accentuate the...

Nope - the jumper plates electrically link the binding posts. You can wire the upper black and the lower red and it wouldn't make a difference.

Regardless of what you use (be it an amplifier, HT receiver, etc.) your only options for connectivity remain HDMI or digital coax (i.e. you get the audio from the DirecTV receiver). If you're only concerned with basic stereo, any older, used stereo receiver will likely have a digital coax...

The Speaker A and Speaker B terminals are generally used to switch between pairs of speakers that may be in different rooms. If your speakers have two pairs of binding posts, they are "bi-ampable" - with one pair of posts feeding the highs and mids, and the other pair feeding the woofers. If...

You won't get any audio out of the projector. The two easiest options will be a soundbar with at least one HDMI input that you simply inject between the DirecTV receiver and your projector (the soundbar would have an HDMI output as well that will pass the video along to the projector)... Or...

It's not as unusual as you might think... I've been active in a league for quite some time and even make an annual pilgrimmage to Pittsburgh for the largest pinball tournament in the world: Pinburgh with a prize purse of over $100,000. OPL or Buckeye? I'm with FSPA, but Trent Augenstein is a...

No more so than the reasons to go with banana plugs over bare wire. Banana plugs don't offer any significant performance improvement over traditional bare wire through binding posts. They are a convenience more than anything, and a fun side project at least. When I wired my basement theater, I...

My wife uses similar silicone baking mats and swears by them. We got some large mats and cut them to fit our cookie sheets. She didn't notice any effect on baking times, nor was there any impact on the amount of browning on cookie bottoms. Cleanup is easy and since my wife bakes lots of cookies...

Strange. I noticed that HTF wasn't allowing me to load an image directly from my computer (browse) - it wanted either a web URL or a link to items in my "Media", so I chose the latter. Noticed today that my media items have "shareable links".. here's a try using that... I'll go back and edit...

Overall, our Thanksgiving feast was a big success. As expected, the turkey took just at 2 hours at a steady 325°. I applied a wet rub under the skin over the breasts and thighs, adding the last of the rub and some oil to the outside for some golden brown crispy skin. Here's how I had the grill...

So here's the spatchcocked bird. Spatchcock by Jason Charlton posted Nov 23, 2016 at 10:07 PM I'm dry-brining it this year: 2-3 tsp of kosher salt sprinkled on the skin. The bird is chillin' in the garage refrigerator uncovered (this will supposedly allow the skin to dry out a bit, which...