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How to Make a Ultrasonic Speaker

Ultrasonic speakers are speakers capable of producing sounds at frequencies above human hearing range -- above 20 kHz. These can be useful for specialized purposes, such as the creation of an...

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How to Troubleshoot a Paradigm PS-1000

The Paradigm PS-1000 woofer has a bandpass design, incorporating a 250-watt amplifier powering a 10-inch driver. The output of the woofer is transmitted through three tuned ports along the back panel...

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Why Do Speaker Boxes Have Holes for Air?

Speaker boxes of particular designs include holes for air flow. Called "ports," these holes serve the primary sonic function of improving bass frequencies by allowing sound waves created by the rear of...

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How to Troubleshoot a Sharp HT-SB200 Sound Bar

Add another dimension to your TV's audio using the Sharp HT-SB200 2.1 Sound Bar. The sound bar is ideal for beefing up your TV's built-in speakers or complementing an existing surround sound system. If...

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What Is a Mid-Bass Woofer?

A mid-bass woofer is a type of speaker that produces sounds in the middle-low frequency range. Speakers classed as “tweeters” produce clean high-range, or treble, sounds. Speakers classed as “woofers”...

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Can I Lay a Subwoofer on Its Side?

Adding a subwoofer to a home stereo or home theater system creates a new level of excitement, allowing you to feel the beat of your favorite music or the rumble of action in a war movie. Low frequency...

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How to: Subwoofer Pre-Out

Bass, known in the home theater realm as "LFE" for low frequency effects, is responsible for much of the emotional and visceral impact in film viewing. All modern home theater audio/video receivers...

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Subwoofer LFE Vs. Variable

Modern home subwoofers are connected in three primary ways. Depending on the connection type, the crossover control on the back of the subwoofer's amplifier is either in use or not. LFE direct from a...

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What Is a Kelton Subwoofer?

Subwoofers add depth and richness to low-frequency information contained in recorded music and home video. Competitions are even built around the loudest, best-sounding car stereos, and quality...

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Settings for Subwoofers

Subwoofers are integral for the true home theater experience. Although they only reproduce a small percentage of the overall soundtrack in a modern DVD or Blu-ray disc movie, there are specific...

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Slot-Ported Vs. Hole-Ported Speaker Box

A subwoofer is the component of a speaker system that provide thumping, low bass tones. When constructing a sound system there are several different subwoofer designs that you can consider. Many...

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Can I Wire a 3 Ohm Subwoofer to a 4 Ohm Amp?

Impedance is a characteristic of speakers that is generally not well understood. The load that a speaker or subwoofer places on an amplifier is a critical link in the audio chain, affecting both the...

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8 Inch Subwoofers Vs. 10 Inch Subwoofers

Although the difference in usable speaker diameter is only two inches between an 8- and 10-inch subwoofer, sometimes the difference in power handling and overall attributes makes a big difference....

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Speaker Polyfill Vs. Foam

In the quest for better sound, something that should never be ignored is the space that speakers operate in. Whether that means the room the speaker plays in or the inside of the speaker's cabinet,...

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How to Calculate a Round Port to a Slotted Port for a Subwoofer Speaker Box

Building your own subwoofer enclosure brings a level of customization and fine-tuning that, with care and planning, can't be matched by off-the-shelf solutions. Considering your cabinet design and...

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Bose Acoustic Waveguide Theory

Bose speakers use proprietary engineering designs to achieve a large amount of sound from smaller speakers. Most of these designs revolve around use of folded transmission lines, which Bose calls...

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How to Get More Inputs on a Bose L1

the Bose L1 is a compact live sound amplification system integrated with amplifier, mixer and speakers. The mixer contains two to four input channels depending on L1 model, which may not be sufficient...

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Should I Use the Left or Right Input on My Polk Subwoofer?

Polk Audio is a well-known provider of a wide range of home and car audio speakers and electronics. Part of its lineup includes home theater subwoofers that use several inputs to get the signal from...

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The Sound Bar Won't Work on My Sharp HTSB200 TV

A sound bar is a cost-effective way to add some pop to your TV's audio without a full stereo system -- unless the sound bar doesn't work. The Sharp HT-SB200 sound bar works with almost any TV, but can...

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Thick Vs. Thin Speaker Cables

Regardless of the price or quality of your home theater system, the sound that it produces is only as good as the speaker wires used to connect it to your external speakers. Wire thickness can impact...

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Do You Need a Subwoofer?

If you love hard driving, heart pounding, deep resonate bass mixed with your music, you might enjoy owning a subwoofer. These compact sonic dynamos handle the lower ends of the audio frequency spectrum...

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How to Fix a Bose Acoustimass 6 Impedance

The Bose Acoustimass 6 speaker system is compatible with both 4 ohm and 8 ohm impedance receivers. The Acoustimass module is a hub for all the speaker input from your surround sound receiver, which it...

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How to Fix a Z-2300 Speaker

The Logitech Z-2300 2.1 channel PC multimedia speaker system consists of two 3-1/2 by 6 by 6.7-inch speakers and one 11 by 15 by 11-inch subwoofer. The Z-2300 is known for its power; it provides 200...

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Bose 801 Errors

Bose home theater systems come in a number of different configurations, with varying choices for speakers and other components. While the system can be the solution for your whole home's audio and...

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Wire Splice Methods for Speakers

You can splice a broken or damaged speaker wire at home with some simple tools and techniques that will permanently repair the wire, making it last many years. This allows you to put your speakers back...

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Speaker Buzz Due to Outlet Ground

An annoying low-frequency hum in your speakers usually means your audio system has a ground loop, a condition in which poor grounding produces electrical noise. The severity of the noise ranges from a...

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Optimal Settings for a Subwoofer

Subwoofers are specialized speakers designed to do one thing: produce low bass tones. While they are frequently associated with home theater systems, subwoofers are useful for all types of media....

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How to Calculate a Speaker's Peak Output Voltage

Calculating a loudspeaker's peak output voltage is a straightforward process that employs three simple rules: the Power Law, P = I * V; Ohm's Law, V = I * R; and calculating Root Mean Square Power,...

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How to Hook Up an Older Subwoofer Without an Input Jack

Many modern subwoofers are active units that combine a large subwoofer driver with an amplifier that provides power for the bass signal. This helps to lessen the load on your stereo's main amplifier by...

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How to Connect Your Speakers Using RCA Ends

Connecting a speaker system to an audio/video receiver, television, disc player or gaming station sometimes requires special equipment such as a cable splitter or Y cable. While speaker sets tend to...

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The Best Ways to Splice Speaker Wires and Not Lose Quality

The topic of splicing has probably been controversial for as long as speaker wire has existed. Engineers and audiophiles will rightly tell you that both resistance and the possibility for interference...

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The Disadvantages of Using Lower Gauge Speaker Wires

It's not hyperbole to say that speaker wire has the largest capacity to affect the quality of your music -- after all, it's the only thing connecting your speakers to your stereo. While it's common...

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How to Measure Speaker Output in Terms of Watts

While a 100-watt speaker may be louder than a 50-watt speaker, the wattage doesn't really measure speaker output. Speakers are transducers that input electrical energy, measurable in terms of watts,...

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How to Repair a Braided Wire to Cone in a Speaker

Speakers produce sounds by translating electrical signals to physical vibrations, creating sound waves. Like any device with moving parts, speakers occasionally fail, particularly subwoofers whose...

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Could Speaker Wires Affect the Radio?

One of the most common problems with radio reception is interference from outside sources. Speaker wires can indeed cause interference, as sometimes the wires act as additional antennas receiving...

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How to Put Silicone Around a Subwoofer

Whether you want booming bass in your car or thunderous realism from movies on your home entertainment system, a good subwoofer can provide a substantial low-end frequency boost. While some...

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How to Make an RCA Jack Subwoofer Wireless

Subwoofers offer dramatic low-frequency effects to audio from movies, broadcast sources and CDs. Active subwoofers add plug-and-play convenience to existing entertainment components, eliminating the...

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How to Make an Underwater Speaker

Many home audio companies claim development of their own superior underwater sound technology, alluding to the fundamental differences of underwater versus open-air acoustics. The quality of these...

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How to Make a Speaker Cone

The components of a speaker provide for its ability to emit sound at different levels of intensity. A speaker's magnet, cone, voice coil and housing provides for the depth, clarity and quality of...

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How to Calculate Bass-Reflex Enclosure

The size of a bass-reflex enclosure is mainly determined by the size of the loudspeaker/driver being put in the cabinet. The Thiele-Small parameters help with all the design issues of a bass-reflex...

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How to Connect the Bose Cinemate to an LG TV

The Bose Cinemate home audio system provides improved sound fidelity and quality for multimedia playback, but it can also be connected to your LG TV. With the Cinemate, your audio listening experience...

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What Is the Frequency Response for a Subwoofer?

When you're shopping for a new subwoofer, one of the specifications you will encounter most often is frequency response. This information helps you understand how the subwoofer will fit into your...

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How to Fix the Left Speaker on Headphones

When a headphone speaker stops working or when it only works intermittently, a broken or detached speaker wire is the most likely source of the problem. Headphone speaker wires are thin and can become...

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How Do I Know if a Speaker Is Out of Phase?

Some people can listen to an out-of-phase audio system for years and never notice a problem; others notice something is just "not quite right" in a matter of seconds. Generally, an out-of-phase speaker...

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How to Connect Your Bose Wave Machine to a TV

While it functions just fine as a standalone audio system, the Bose Wave music system can also be used as a speaker system to improve the sound on many other devices, including your home TV. There are...

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How to Design an Open Baffle Speaker

Open baffle speaker systems get their name from the fact that the speaker employs only a frontal mounting board for the speakers. Without an enclosure behind the speakers, open baffle designs suffer...

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How to Hook Up Z506 to Your TV

Z506 speakers by Logitech are 5.1 surround-sound speakers that may improve audio quality of music, television shows, games and movies by adding rich surround sound and effects. With 75 watts of RMS...

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How to Hook Up a Single Subwoofer to Your DJ Setup

A subwoofer is a great addition to a DJ setup; it's the speaker that will create the booming bass that most DJs are looking for. To connect a single subwoofer to your DJ setup, use a powered or active...

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How to Tame a Speaker's Tweeter Brightness

Tweeter brightness is often difficult to describe because of the ways different people hear sound. What sounds like music with too much treble and harsh high-end frequency levels to one listener might...

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How to Replace a Bose Cube's Cloth

Bose Cubes are small high-end speakers that ship with some Bose home theater systems. Over time, the cloth covering the speakers may tear, become discolored or be otherwise damaged. Replacing a Bose...

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