Why Live Sport Sounds Different
A film mix gets months of post production. A live match gets one engineer riding levels in real time, and that difference...
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Disney Plus Audio Quality and Settings
A reference for which Disney Plus plan, device, and setting actually delivers 4K, Dolby Atmos, or plain stereo on any given title...
Setting Speaker Distances Correctly
Five numbers in a setup menu decide whether every channel arrives at your seat together or a few milliseconds apart.
How Carpet, Curtains, and Sofas Change Sound
A room with nothing soft in it can make a genuinely good soundbar sound harsh, and no amount of menu tweaking fixes...
Optical vs HDMI for TV Audio
One connection sends a beam of light carrying compressed 5.1 sound, the other carries everything up to a disc's own lossless object...
Do Up-Firing Atmos Speakers Actually Work
Up-firing drivers can sound convincingly overhead in the right room, and almost invisible in the wrong one, off the same identical hardware.
Do You Actually Need a Subwoofer
Probably not for a quiet bedroom. Almost certainly yes for action films, games, and rooms where the built in driver runs out...
No Sound From Your Soundbar: Finding the Cause
Total silence from a soundbar has five common causes, and the order you test them in matters more than any single fix.
Fixing Lip Sync Delay
Most audio that trails the picture is not a broken soundbar at all, it is one setting on the TV or the...
Getting Atmos From Netflix
A step by step check of the plan, the device, and the settings that decide whether Netflix actually sends your receiver a...
Where to Put a Subwoofer in Any Room
The corner nearest an outlet is rarely the right answer, and a twenty minute test finds the spot that actually is.
eARC vs ARC: What Changes
One extra letter separates a connection built for compressed streaming audio from one with the bandwidth for a disc's full lossless soundtrack.
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