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Dolby Atmos Beyond 7.1.4 – Part 6: Reconfiguring Everything (Again)

Josh Zyber — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 17:00:17 +0000

My seemingly never-ending project to incorporate an absurd number of speakers into my home theater has undergone another major overhaul since I last provided an update. While, no, I haven’t squeezed any more speakers into the room, I have rewired and re-assigned several of them – hopefully for the better. Most home theaters are content...

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Dolby Atmos Beyond 7.1.4 – Part 5: The Front Wide Experiment

Josh Zyber — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 18:00:22 +0000

It’s been a while since I last provided an update on my ongoing attempt to expand my home theater beyond the conventional channel limits allowed by Dolby Atmos or DTS:X. Never satisfied, I’ve now crammed 17 speakers into my room. If you can believe it, in some ways this has actually simplified matters since my...

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Poll: Do You Use Front Wide Speakers?

Josh Zyber — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 12:00:14 +0000

In all the years I’ve had surround sound, I’d never given much thought to implementing Front Wide speakers between my main Left and Right channels and the Surround speakers. Recently, however, I gave it some consideration. Does anyone here use Front Wides? Is it worth the effort? This train of thought started as a result...

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Making Better Bass, Part 3: The Failed Dual-Subwoofer Experiment

Josh Zyber — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 16:00:29 +0000

I recently went to a lot of trouble getting the best bass response from one subwoofer. In theory, adding a second subwoofer could improve my results even further. Not the way I did it, unfortunately. As I recounted in previous posts, I found the Room EQ Wizard software to be an invaluable tool for seeing...

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Poll: What Size Is Your Subwoofer?

Josh Zyber — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 12:00:53 +0000

In case you hadn’t noticed from recent posts here, I’ve had bass on my mind a lot lately. In previous polls, I asked how many subwoofers you have and what type they are. Let’s get right to the next obvious question: How big’s your sub? Subwoofer sizes are typically measured by the diameter of their...

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Poll: What Type of Subwoofer Do You Have?

Josh Zyber — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 12:00:24 +0000

As part of our recent focus on subwoofers and making better bass, we asked last week how many subwoofers you have in your home theater. Now I’d like to know what type of subs you use: sealed, ported, or cylinder? If you’re not familiar with the differences between these types of subwoofers, I unfortunately don’t...

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Making Better Bass, Part 2: Subwoofer Phase

Josh Zyber — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 12:00:43 +0000

In my quest to improve bass response in my home theater, first I had to move the location of my subwoofer. After that, I found myself doing something I’d never paid much attention to in the past: adjusting the subwoofer’s phase knob. Technically, it wasn’t a knob I used. The SVS SB-4000 doesn’t actually have...

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Making Better Bass, Part 1: The Inordinate Frustration of Subwoofer Placement

Josh Zyber — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 12:00:57 +0000

Achieving good bass response is by far the most difficult part of setting up any home theater audio system and the solution is rarely as simple as buying a big or powerful subwoofer. Finding the right spot in the room to put that subwoofer can make a world of difference. Ironically, a bigger sub may...

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Poll: How Many Subwoofers Do You Use?

Josh Zyber — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 16:00:28 +0000

Most home theaters, if they have surround sound at all, typically use a single subwoofer to reproduce bass frequencies. Many experts recommend at least two, and some bass fanatics really go crazy with multiple heavy-duty subs. What works in your home theater? Anyone who has struggled like I have to get good bass knows that...

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Upmixer Face-off: DSU vs. Neural:X vs. Auro-3D

Josh Zyber — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 12:00:27 +0000

As part of my testing of the flagship Denon AVR-X8500H A/V receiver, I finally have access to all three of the competing immersive sound upmixer formats and was able to run a comparison to see exactly how they each work on a normal movie soundtrack. My prior A/V receiver, the 2014 Denon AVR-X5200W, was a...

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Weekend Roundtable: Xmas Wish List 2017

Josh Zyber — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 20:00:13 +0000

We’re right on the verge of Christmas and Santa has already started packing his sleigh. Do you have any last-minute wish list items you’d like the jolly fat man to put in your stocking this year? M. Enois Duarte If we’re going with the most far-fetched possibilities, I want a brand-new 4k remaster of ‘Terminator...

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Can Nothing in Home Theater Ever Be Easy?

Josh Zyber — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 12:00:03 +0000

As happens far too often, a recent change I made that was supposed to be a small, simple tweak to my home theater equipment wound up turning into a much more involved project and a major time-suck. At the end of it, I know a lot more about acoustical problems in my room, but I...

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