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AV receiver of power! Learn which AVR settings and setup mistakes reduce amplifier power, headroom, sound quality, bass impact and home theater performance.

My Onkyo TX-SR705 receiver's "Late Night" mode can only be activated with Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, and Dolby TrueHD signals. Are there any decent consumer-grade receivers that can apply ...

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

I have a question about Dolby Dynamic Range. According to the Dolby website Dolby sound can encompass sounds from as low as 20 Hz to as high as 20kHz. If you have speakers that are only capable of ...

What makes music, TV shows, or movies sound good or bad? A lot of it has to do with dynamic range. The term Dynamic Range is used in both video and audio. In video, Dynamic Range is the “distance” ...

Younger listeners play music and shows online and from digital personal collections. My research finds that this music is distributed almost entirely in its original, unprocessed form (Getty ...

Dynamic range compression is a technique used to raise the level of soft sounds and lower the level of louder sounds, effectively reducing the loudness "swing" of an audio signal. Classically, this ...