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A buddy of mine built me 3 gorgeous stands for my center and surround speakers, and I need to get carpet spikes for them. I was hoping to find some simple plastic 1.5 inch spikes that I could put into the bottom to give them more balance. However looking at places like Parts Express, all they...

First off let me make it clear that my home theater usage is 90% movies, 8% TV, and 2% music. But when I do listen to music, its mostly Jazz, Blues, Classical, and occasionally rock and hip-hop; and Id like it to sound good when I'm doing it. Ive gone back and forth on this issue several...

I have an old pair of JBL LX44s (at least 10 years old) where the rubber around the woofers has broken and flaked away. Id like to replace the woofers but I'm not sure where to go to find the right 8" woofers etc. They are excellent speakers, and always sounded incredible until a few years...

I recently upgraded my speakers to an Athena Audition series system consisting of the AS-C1, 2 AS-F2s, and 2 AS-B1s. I've been planning on buying a pair of Energy C-R1 Bi-Poles for approx $300 to use as surrounds in a 7.1 system. But then I had an idea. If I buy two pairs of the AS-B1s, which...

Its upgrade time and Im moving into front projection so Im selling my Toshiba 50H81 with a best buy 4 year service plan that has 2.5 years left on it. As stated above, this is a 50" 16:9 HD Ready RPTV. I've had it for a year and a half and have been extremely happy with it. HDTV looks...

I know there are a number of people that arent exactly fans of Monster cable, but just out of curiosity, what do you think about the THX Monster cables? Putting price aside, what do you think of their performance over cheaper interconnects, or even against more expensive interconnects...

I am currently selling an entire 5.1 speaker package consisting of JBL Studio Series speakers. They are all in perfect working order and make up one really good 5.1 surround sound home theater system! The Center and Sub have served me well the last year or so and the four bookshelves are less...

I currently have a 5.1 JBL setup consisting of the JBL S Center I, 4 JBL S36 II's, and a 10" JBL PB10. I love it - no complaints. But now I have a wonderful oppurtunity. I can get my hands on either the Klipsch Synergy series speakers or the Athena Audition series speakers for half their...

I have a Yamaha 5560 6.1 Receiver. I dont know all that much about the upper eschelon of HT. If I hook up an Amp to my system what kind of difference will it make. If its a drastic one, what kind of Amp should I consider in the sub $400 price range (less expensive the better.)? Is there...

I currently have an HDTV Toshiba 50inch RPTV, and I love it, but I've been thinking of upgrading. I was going to move to the HDTV Toshiba 65inch RPTV but then stumbled across a DLP projector that costs the same as that TV, the above mentioned Sharp DT-200. My question is, although I've read...

I'm in the planning stages of building an HTPC, which is easy for me because I'm a PC technician, but only in the planning stages because I am currently broke as the proverbial joke. In any event, I wanted to see some pictures of the HTPCs some of you have built. What case did you go with...

Has anyone built one of these nifty Poster Light Boxes (example) that snap open so you can replace the poster regularly? If so do you have a DIY guide or any pictures of the construction process/end result? Most of those things go for almost $400 bucks, but using rope light, some paint, some...

I'm building a home theater over the course of the next 6 months and am having a lot of fun with it. In addition to Making some velvet curtains and reupholstering some movie theater seats, I would like to reupholster my sectional couch. It's a well made older couch (25 - 35 years old) that...