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De termen 'bi-wiring' en 'bi-amping' zorgen voor nogal verwarring bij home-theater en hifi fans. Beide zorgen voro meer luidsprekerkabels, maar wat is nu wat ?

Voordat je weer achter je av-receiver of eindversterker duikt, let eerst even op de kleurcodering. Grote kans dat de verschillende aansluitingen een kleurtje hebben gekregen, en niet voor niets. De CEA heeft een kleurcodering bedacht voor allerlei aansluitingen.

Read this at your own risk! If you already own one of the High-Definition or Enhanced-Definition video display technologies in question, you may learn to see video defects that previously never bothered you, which, once isolated, may annoy you over time.

When it comes to determining at what height the main surround speakers should be mounted, “above ear level and to the sides of the listening area” goes only so far. Because each Axiom QS8 or QS4 uses four drivers, for a total of eight, they are remarkably forgiving of less than perfect placement, in part because there is lots of multi-directional energy being radiated into the room.

In the quest to get smooth, well-balanced sound reproduction in our homes, the one component we often ignore is the listening room itself.

I get lots of emailed questions from home theater enthusiasts who want to use their A/V receiver to run a second pair of bookshelf speakers in the bedroom or den, sometimes even a third pair on a patio —in addition to the main pair of speakers in their home theatre system. The questioner asks how to do it, and whether it will harm the A/V receiver.

This is a very basic guide to getting a better picture from your TV set. We’ll save the elaborate setup, which requires a test disc, for a later edition of the newsletter. Your TV may have different names for the controls, such as Sony's habit of calling Contrast 'Picture', but the procedure remains the same.

Got a problem getting a smooth, seamless soundstage from your left main speaker across the center channel to the right speaker? Does much of the image seem collapsed into the centre?