Home theater setup tips for the holidays
CNET rounds up some of its best home theater setup tips so you can get the most out of your new home theater gear.
Matthew Moskovciak Senior Associate Editor / Reviews - Home theater
Covering home audio and video, Matthew Moskovciak helps CNET readers find the best sights and sounds for their home theaters. E-mail Matthew or follow him on Twitter @cnetmoskovciak.
If you're lucky enough to get your favorite piece of home theater gear this holiday season, the next step is setting it up and getting it tweaked just right. CNET dishes out home theater setup advice all year, but we've rounded up our most important home theater tips so you can spend your holidays on the couch rather than crawling behind your TV cabinet.
Home theater setup tips
- Don't buy expensive HDMI cables
- Speaker-placement tips for audiophiles
- Home theater speaker placement tips
- Is it worth setting up my Dolby Pro Logic IIz height speakers?
- Subwoofer setup guide
- How to get the most out of your subwoofer
- How to use your AV receiver's speaker calibration
- What'd he say? How to improve home theater dialogue intelligibility
- What do my speaker specs mean?
- Demystifying speaker impedance--what you need to know
- What's up with watts: How much power do you need?
- How to double your home theater receiver's power
- Six ways to make your turntable sound better
- How to get the best sound from in-ear headphones
Of course, the other half of the home theater equation is the HDTV, so be sure to check out David Katzmaier's HDTV setup tips, too.