Nordost Cables, Power Products & Resonance Control Devices
Helping You Realize the Full Potential of Your Audio System If you have upgraded some of the cables in your audio system than you are already aware of the difference that [...]
How To Setup and Optimize Your Audio System
Tips of Getting the Best Sound Out of Your 2-Channel Music System Above: Roy Gregory of www.TheAudioBeat.com presenting a seminar about how to setup and optimize your audio system. It is a remarkable fact of hi-fi [...]
A Peek at Various Audio and Home Theatre System Tweaks
One of the well known tendencies among dedicated music listeners is the urge to upgrade components in the quest to attain better sound quality. The conventional way of going about this is to upgrade key components [...]
Listening Room Acoustics: Room Modes and Standing Waves
Fig. 1 Low frequency measurement in a typical listening room. As stated in my earlier article (How do listening room acoustics affect sound quality?), room modes cause standing waves that can cause three acoustical problems: a [...]
How Vibrations Impact the Sound of Your System and How to Eliminate Them
Audio is a wonderful hobby that brings great pleasure to millions around the world through their aural senses. However, few audio enthusiasts will deny that our wonderful hobby is plagued by a few product categories that [...]
Eliminating Unwanted Audio and Video Noise
It’s an exciting day as you rush home eager to try out that new audio or video component that you just purchased. After taking time to carefully hook up the new gear and double checking that [...]
Getting Good Bass In Your Home Theatre: Subwoofer Placement Tips
So you bought yourself a gorgeous flat panel TV, set it up with a Blu-ray player and began watching a blockbuster movie like The Dark Knight. If you’re a regular reader of CANADA HiFi then I’ll [...]
Improve the Sound in Your Home Theatre
Improve the Sound in Your Home Theatre: Hot tips that every home theatre system can benefit from! It doesn't matter whether you spend two thousand or fifty thousand dollars on your home theatre - if your [...]
How do listening room acoustics affect sound quality?
Unfortunately when home audio systems are set up, the acoustics of the listening room are rarely taken into account. Indeed, most people opt for expensive, top of the range sound systems in an attempt to reach [...]
Power Protection for your Home Theater Audio Video Gear
When I was younger, my father always stressed to me the importance of plugging our electronics into power bars with surge protection instead of directly into the wall outlet. He said it would protect the electronics [...]