Having a surround sound system makes your watching experience more submerged in your shows and movies. Home speakers make quite a difference, but they can also attract the curious gaze of your cats. So how do you protect your home speakers from your cats? There are...
Subwoofers are quality speakers providing low frequencies for your sound experience. You might wonder, can I put things in front of a subwoofer? After all, they don’t need to be out in front, and sometimes your entertainment room gets a bit messy, or maybe you...
If you are a movie-lover, you often balance between seeing movies in the theater or at home. Home theaters are still worth it, even if you enjoy going to the movie theater. But you may have wondered “why” or “how” home theaters or home cinemas...
It’s no secret that streaming devices and Smart TVs have taken over the market in recent years. You may wonder, are HTPCs still worth building? HTPCs are great for media enthusiasts and for those with the time or money to put into their entertainment project....
Bad news for 4K Blu-ray users on desktops, laptops, and HTPCs. There’s no more 4K Blu-ray playback on Intel chips. Computers equipped with Intel 12th gen Alder Lake, and 11th gen Rocket Lake processors, including those on the latest Windows 11 OS, are no longer...
Extending your home theater wires is a relatively simple task that you probably won’t do often. It sounds more complicated than it actually is as you can get it done within 10 minutes if you know the right methods. However, if done improperly, not only will you...
An AV (audio-video) receiver, as the name suggests, receives video and audio signals from multiple sources and routes them to the right output devices. Since AV receivers come with an integrated amplifier, they don’t “need” a separate amplifier to process and amplify...
If you want to make the most out of your home theater experience, having a good receiver is essential. A good receiver will elevate your movie nights to a higher level. Besides, having an excellent speaker is basically worthless if the receiver isn’t great....
An AV receiver serves as the hub of a home theater system, connecting all the components together. You may hear an annoying clicking sound, perhaps on specific occasions or randomly, but what is causing it to click? And is the clicking in AVRs really a problem? What...
Hi, I'm Roy, the main content creator here on Home Theater Heroes. I'm an IT person by trade, but love entertainment like movies and video games. I've been messing around with home theater packages since my Dad's old, expensive custom Bose Lifestyle set up in the mid-90s. Stick around to see fun technical projects and new stuff I'm learning about home theaters.
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