Apartment Therapy: home theater

A Kid-Friendly Media Room

Oh mang! When we were little we never had a TV in our room, let alone a whole kids loft media room! Featured on Design*Sponge, this kid’s loft is found in the home of Rosy Levy. She designed the ro...

Wall Of Sound

There are plenty of erroneous pieces of technology floating around the world and we believe this may be another one. We completely understand the need for a very loud sound system, but an iPod dock t...

A Music Lover's Impressive Home Theater
Close-Up

Klaas Jan Guchelaar loves music. So much so that he's found a career as a concert photographer in the Netherlands. When he's not snapping priceless moments at Living Colour concerts he's sitting back...

Jamo A804 Speakers with Scary SUB 800
Unplggd Test Lab

When we were kids, we had a pair of Jamo speakers that were probably the worst we have ever owned. Maybe just a notch above some speakers that came shrink-wrapped to a magazine bought in Spain a fe...

The Office Rainn Wilson's New Man Cave

We love Rainn Wilson. His Dwight on The Office is amazing. Ah-May-Zing! While his character works in one of the most blah working environments at Dunder-Mifflin, Rainn has quite the nice home office ...

Inspiration: Deltalab Recording Sutdio

DeltaLab Recording Studios, "the world's first designer recording studio", was founded in 2001 by 19 year old Thomas Troelsen and has recorded the likes of Bryan Adams. In 2007, they upgraded and re...

Two Great DIY Floating Wall Ideas

Here are two inspiring DIY projects created by AVForums member "SparksCW" for his bedroom that use a 9mm MDF for a floating LED back lit headboard with a dimmer feature, alongside an opposite facing...

Rocketfish Will Turn Your Sound System Wireless

If you can't wait to jump onto the bandwagon of the wireless revolution, then maybe you should consider the Rocketfish Rocketboost, which will turn your home theater system wireless. Here at Unplggd...

ShelfSpeaker Combines Furniture and Home Theater

We usually tend to separate furniture and home theater items, however that didn't stop an enterprising designer from trying to combine shelves and speakers. We know that your speakers probably have al...

Stunning Elekit Tube Amplifier By Case-Real

One of the good tips that we've received for high-end stereo and home theater equipment is that things are a lot cheaper when you try out kits. Kits are basically systems that you have to assemble you...

An Environmentally Friendly Update to Acoustical Insulation

When it comes to acoustic-friendly insulation, sound quality tends to overpower eco-friendliness. In the last year or so though, companies have been coming out with alternatives to formaldehyde and p...

Space Saving LG HLB54S Blu-ray Soundbar

If space is an issue and you're not super discriminating about your surround sound, a sound imaging, faux surround sound bar can be a good option. We have a Yamaha brand sound bar, and the reflected s...

Rotating Entertainment Center
Dwell Magazine

If we had kids and a basement we'd want this. Shown in this month's Dwell, this rotating entertainment center is in the amazing home of architect and builder Ken Meffan. Located in Rough and Ready, C...

Seagate FreeAgent Theater HD Media Player

The Seagate FreeAgent Theater HD Media Player is a case of "close but no cigar". The system revolves around a concept not unlike gaming cartridges of yore, except now the "cartridges" consist of Seaga...

Hot or Not? Emmei's Glass TV Stand

We keep going back and forth about loving and hating this media stand. It looks like something out of a Tim Burton movie, whom we love, but we wonder if because it's so stylized it would look dated s...

SunbriteTV Brings Home Entertainment Outdoors

Here in Los Angeles where the backyard is just another room in the house, outdoor entertainment doesn't just mean BBQs and pool parties. People are hosting movie nights with projectors, bringing home...

Sherwood's Wireless AV Receiver:Powered by WiFi

Unless you've plugged in a computer into your HDTV, you might still need a way to connect your internet with your fancy new screen. Some HDTVs are coming with built-in ways of accessing Netflix and ot...

A Great Example of Lighting Your Home Theater

Home Theater - Light Setup from msouza on Vimeo. We'll pardon the spastic video editing stylization of this Vimeo piece uploaded by msouza, only because the video does a great job showcasing an excell...

WiFi HD Turns Your iPhone and iPod Touch into a Wireless Hard Drive

What did you do this weekend? Oh yah. Cool. Well, I found the coolest iPhone/Touch app ever. Swear to God. WiFi HD uses your wireless network to turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into an external hard ...

La Boite: Incredible Arcarde Home Entertainment Unit

If you are a fan of video games and arcades, you should look no further for a home entertainment unit to house your home theater. La Boite Concept is a great way to put all of your home theater needs ...

Slick Home Theater Uses MacBook as Digital Library

We personally only watch TV through the Mac Mini plugged into our flat screen. It's seriously the best way to watch anything. No cable bills, no limits to what the networks are airing right now, it's...

Using a Shelf as a Floating Entertainment Unit

When choosing the entertainment unit for your HDTV, it's not always good to use something very large and imposing. Most of the time, something simple and elegant will do the job nicely. That's why we ...

Look! Off Center Flat Screen

We don't know about you, but we have a tendency of always having things centered. Especially the TV. We've always set-up our "media room" -- if we can even call that -- so that the TV is smack dab in...

How To... Keep your Home Theater Speakers from Looking Loud

Electronic House rounds up the best ways to minimize your speaker footprint, from built-in wall units to fans with speakers designed within. One of our favorite solutions from the roundup is Atlantic...

Look! Restoration Hardware Brings the TV Easel to the Masses

We've posted about TVs on easels a few times here on Unplggd. There was the DIY version and then the concept version. Now we have the to market version......

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