For years, home theater enthusiasts have repeated the same advice: buy a ported subwoofer for movies and a sealed subwoofer for music.

Have you ever looked at a subwoofer, or a speaker cab containing a woofer and wondered what that hole or slot is for? Obviously, since pretty much every subwoofer has one, it must have an important ...

Your subwoofer could sound far worse than it should simply because of where it's placed. These common placement mistakes can ...

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Here's what to pay attention to when building a home theater system.

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This article was originally published back in 2001 and some of the info is obsolete by today's standard of products offering a wider diversity of configuration options. Based on the latest research, ...

Flat panel speakers are heavily reliant on the material they’re mounted on for the best acoustic quality. In particular, for DML (distributed mode loudspeaker) speakers, sound is produced through the ...