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I’ve got an old XEQ-2 active crossover made by EV that I’ve been using for the crossover on my subwoofer for my home theater. The one thing I always disliked about this EQ was the 30-Hz built-in high pass filter. Worse than that, the options for adjusting this filter don’t offer any solutions. [...]

I decided to join Netflix today after reading a lot of great things about their new “Watch Instantly” feature. They’ve got over 12,000 titles available for immediate download to your PC, or as the case may be, your Home Theater PC. With my new HTPC working quite nicely, the only next thing to [...]

I’ve been a big fan of TC Sounds drivers for almost 10 years. They manufacture some of the beefiest high-excursion drivers and passive radiators on the market. I was shocked to learn that they’ve filed for bankruptcy in spite of having such a great reputation for amazing drivers not only among the DIY [...]

I finally finished a new pair of 2-way bookshelf speakers for my home theater, a project that started over two years ago. It was back in March of 2006 that I bought a pair of Dayton RS-150S-8 6″ Reference Series woofers and RS-28A-4 tweeters. The plan was to refinish an old pair of [...]

I tackled the daunting task of installing a pair of surround sound speakers in my family room theater this morning. This is actually the second set of surround sound speakers I’ve put in our family room. Reason being, shortly after installing the first set, we decided to flip the room around 180 [...]

So I’ve started another sub project. My home theater has been without a sub ever since we moved a few years ago. I debated several ideas for the new house, everything from a small 8″ sub to a larger 12″ end table sub to a monstrous multi-15″ driver IB sub in the attic. [...]

A few months ago I started working on a sub for a friend at work. We got to talking one day and we discovered we both share an interest in audio and music and such and he said he was looking to get a new sub for his home theater, so I volunteered to [...]

A couple years ago I came up with an idea on how to build a really cool in-wall speaker system that allowed the end-user to install any raw driver-tweeter combo they could imagine. Then, to my surprise, Parts Express began offering the exact same thing, which they call the In-wall Mounting System. With [...]

I just finished watching Steve Jobs keynote address on the new line-up of iPods. My first thoughts are they did a really good job overall of overhauling the each of the iPods, and offering some really great new features. Starting with the Shuffle, they could have done more than just a few new [...]

I found some time today to build up the crossovers for my friend’s new home theater speakers. I am by no means an expert on custom crossover design, and the small array of free tools I have at my disposal are all I know to design a better-than-textbook crossover for a pair of loudspeakers. [...]