Tag: surround sound | Apartment Therapy

Highlight Your Flat Screen With Plywood & Pipe

When we moved into our downtown Kansas City loft earlier this summer, our space came with a few techy bonuses. The previous tenants left their wall mounted TV's and sound equipment, but even better...

Immersive 16 Speakers Philips 360Sound System

By now most everyone is acquainted with surround sound, typically a 5.1 or 7.1 setup, which can do a more than fair job at recreating the audio experience afforded at the cinema. But Philips' new 360S...

A Fresh LA Space that Carries Subtle Tech

Carrie's ATLA house tour is chock full of well thought out technology. From the mini surround sound speakers she's placed in her living room to the wire side table that holds her turntable and LPs, ...

A Simple Media Center With Seamless Surround Sound

We love the sound we get from our surround sound speakers. But with the curse of being a renter, it's always tough to lay out the speakers and still keep everything looking fresh......

Stefan Boublil's Surround Sound and Sight Redesign

We just highlighted the meeting offices of The Apartment Creative Agency yesterday, and now we're follow up with this exemplary apartment designed by Stefan Boublil, creative director of the New Yor...

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...

How to Build a Closet Wireless Entertainment Unit?
Good Questions

Q - Does anyone have a recommendation on a (cheap) way to put my electronics (dvr, dvd, surround sound system, printer) in a closet and use infrared receiver/wireless to control them? Searched on AT s...

Flickr Find: California Casual Home Theater

This self-proclaimed Cali Casual home theater is certainly clean and simple, but does all the high-tech gadgetry in the otherwise sparse room overwhelm the potential calmness that you'd want in your l...

How To: Hide Your Rear Speaker Wires

We've gone over how to make your own speaker wires before, but how does one effectively hide them from prying eyes once all the surround speakers are in place? We've got your answers waiting for you, ...

Computing While Standing, High Tech Toilets, Punch Card Notebooks and New Surround Sound Format
Unplggd Slinks for 5.15.2009

The Handcrafted Standing Desk - Lifehacker: There are plenty who think working while standing is better for posture and general health (aka bottom spread). We're pretty sure this might be true if you'...

Inspiration: Sesame Streets' Bert-Inspired Home Tech

Sesame Street comes as a strange place to find ideas for your home, but strangely enough, blogger Sims found Bert as his main source of inspiration to model his home into an optimal space designed to ...

News: Dolby Releases New Surround Format, Goes Vertical

Just when you thought your elaborate 7.1 speaker setup couldn't get any more complicated, Dolby announces a brand new standard to do just that. Check it - if you want an even fuller immersible experie...

Setting Up a 5.1 vs. 7.1 Surround Sound System

Us old timers remember back in the day when 5.1 formats like Dolby Digital and DTS were the bee's knees when it came to the home theater experience. But now with 7.1 HD audio encoded into Blu-ray disc...

Giveaway Reminder: Orb Mod1 Plus System Giveaway

Just a reminder that you have until midnight PST today to enter this week's giveaway. We're handing out a $1,000 surround sound system from Orb, which we reviewed early last week. We'll be announci...

Re(al)view: Orb Audio Surround Sound Home Theater System

We aren't surround sound folk. Not because we don't appreciate the all encompassing sound when watching an action flick, but because living in a large studio doesn't really give you much room for a T...

How To...Set-Up Your Surround Sound Speakers

While doing research on surround sound we found an interesting podcast on Dolby's site. The podcast is hosted by Craig Eggers, a 20 year veteran in the audio field, and Jack Buser, a self proclaimed ...

Bang & Olufsen's BeoVision 9 HDTV

Beautiful? Check. Unique? Check. Awesome tech specs? Check. The BeoVision 9 is everything you could ever need for a perfectly-primped home theater and more. And in true Bang & Olufsen style, we can't...