Location, Location, Location – Where to sit to enjoy the best sound?

John Strohbeen    Tuesday, August 16, 2016    Articles

…in a movie theater? THX and Dolby have invested a great deal of research in how to create a dramatic sonic effect to compliment the quality of today’s movies.Commercial theaters today…

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No Cost Sound Improvement – Move Your Seat, Get Better Sound

John Strohbeen    Tuesday, April 12, 2016    Articles

Sometimes the simplest solutions are the best. The ways speakers and rooms interact have a bigger effect than all your choices in electronics combined as long as the electronics are not…

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Break-In & Burn-In Versus Broken & Burnt Out

John Strohbeen    Monday, March 28, 2016    Articles

Brand new speakers are well known for not performing their best until they have been “burnt-in” or “broken-in.” This is true for all mechanical systems such as turntables, phono…

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Thinking Outside the Box -- Listening Outside the Room or the Bouncing Sound

John Strohbeen    Tuesday, March 1, 2016    Articles

This may seem strange. But, a good test of how well a speaker and a room are matched is listening from Outside-the-Room (OtR). By listening through an open door while standing where you…

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Making the Sound Fit the Room

John Strohbeen    Tuesday, January 19, 2016    Articles, Advice

One of the most vexing problems in getting the most out of an audio system is matching it to the acoustics of the room in which it is placed. We talked about this issue in some detail in…

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Spikes – Yikes!

John Strohbeen    Tuesday, March 3, 2015    Articles, Advice

It comes down to basic physics. Newton’s Third Law of Motion states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. So, when a woofer’s cone is pushed forward,…

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