Home Audio Accessories

Giving Christmas gifts is a wonderful American tradition. Despite critic's arguments, we LIKE to give Christmas gifts. It makes us feel good. This year, give a gift that is ecolologicically...

Digital clocks are a popular type of alarm clock. Most digital clocks come preset at a default volume level that can sometimes blast you out of your bed in the morning. Luckily, you can very...

A CD or DVD disc isn't prone to damage when being played because the CD or DVD player uses a laser to read the data off of the disc. Although there is little maintenance necessary, the lens inside...

When used with one of the three models of vacuum record-cleaning machines that VPI manufactures--the HW 16.5, HW 17 and Typhoon--VPI record cleaning fluid can clean old, dirty records thoroughly...

One of the most celebrated exports of Germany's Black Forest region, the cuckoo clock is an animated and very functional house ornament. At regular intervals, a small bird erupts out of the...

Though available in rare cases elsewhere from the mid-17th century, cuckoo clocks ascended to popularity in southwestern Germany's Black Forest in the 18th century. They are now popular souvenirs...

When putting together a home theater system, far too few people take into account the room and furniture. Choosing proper home theater seating can add a true "movie-type" feel to your home theater...

The best FM signal for your stereo radio will always come from having a good FM antenna. A decent FM antenna does not have to be an expensive store-bought or manufactured kind. Instead, it can be...

Sound waves behave a lot like light waves, so some of the same principles that are used to focus or amplify light can be used to amplify sounds. A simple lens can be used to focus sunlight to a...

Video baluns work to convert a balanced electrical line to an unbalanced line and vice versa. Balanced lines have two conductors and equal currents in opposing directions, while unbalanced lines...

Every music producer has his or her own sound which is partly due to the studio instruments they employ. Korg sounds different from Nord leads. Your decision as to which to use will define the...

Every day something you hear, see, or pass by is created by using a mixing console. A console is used by the radio station you listen to, by the television station you watch, by the musician who...

FM radio signals are line-of-sight. The FM radio signal does not follow the curvature of the earth, as does the AM radio wave. Early FM stations broadcast in either a horizontal wave or a vertical...

Cut a piece of cheap 18ga to the length you need from the formula in the image, strip the ends and twist the conductors together. Find the center and cut only one side of the wire, pull out...

Speaker switches allow music enjoyment in multiple rooms, with some models enabling different styles of music to be heard in separate parts of a home. Whether your needs are for a simple two-pair...

Whether listening to music thorough your quadraphonic hi-fi system or watching movies in 5.1 surround sound, audio cables make it all possible. Record players, Blu-ray disc players, tape decks,...

Speaker wire is measured by the American Wire Gauge (AWG) system, used since 1857 for the standardized measurement of wire for electrical conduction. Either solid or stranded core wires are...

Questions abound about speaker wires. Information disseminated by brand name advertisers, audiophiles, magazines and websites can often be overwhelming and sometimes contradictory. There are...

The high-end speaker wire craze has caught many audiophiles in it's grip. Specialty speaker wires and cables are marketed to the public with claims of increased performance and superior audio...

Professional and home audio has come a long way from the days when users had to screw down raw cable of varying gauges to make an audio system work effectively. Nearly every wire installation now...

Cassettes and compact discs have both been used for a number of different purposes in the past few decades, from studio-produced pre-recorded media such as music releases and audio books to blank,...

Wireless headphones offer unmatched privacy for those who watch TV late at night or have trouble hearing their favorite programs at normal volume levels. Unfortunately, choosing the best...

RCA audio cables are the standard composite audio (and sometimes video) cables used to connect various audio and video components. They carry electrical analog signals between the components and...

If you live in a small apartment or a dorm and you keep different hours than your partner or room mate using the wireless head phone is a way to keep the peace in your house if you know what I...

Cable splitters connect two electronic devices through a single wire, routing two devices into one. For example, a splitter can split signals for Internet and cable TV. The typical lengths of each...

RCA cables were introduced by the Radio Corporation of America, from which the acronym is derived, and were designed to be used to hook phonographs up to amplifiers. The cables have since come to...

Energizer offers 17 different product groups with many different component materials. The basic structure of cathode, anode and electrolyte may include exotic metals, poisonous chemical compounds...

Each product that uses an AC or DC power source is equipped with a voltage regulator. Let us assume that the desired power need of a laptop computer is 5 watts. When you plug your laptop to an...

Digital optical cables transmit sound signals by using fiber-optic technology, or strands of glass that transmit digital information to receivers. Digital optical ports are found on some music...

Most audio cables use a wire to transmit electrical signals. But optical audio cables use fiber optic communications to transmit light. This makes them immune to the electrical interference that...

While Sony markets the PS3 as an HDTV home entertainment device, many players actually want their PS3s to be integrated into their computer setups. This can give increased portability to gamers on...

XLR microphone cables are a balanced audio cable with locking connectors that are used in professional audio applications. The cable was invented by James Cannon. It was originally called the...

Earbuds are the modern-day equivalent of stereo headphones. While headphones used to fit around your ears like ear muffs, they now are drastically smaller and fit inside your ear. This provides...

XLR cables are used in audio applications ranging from live shows to professional recording sessions. XLR cables have 3 pins, a circular connector and are used to deliver balanced microphone and...

If you have ever been at a rock concert and felt your ear drums ache, it's because the the audio of the concert is running a high level of decibels (dBs). A decibel meter is used to measure sound...

Cable connectors are audio and visual connectors used to carry audio and/or video signals. These signals are either digital or analog. Cables and connectors are necessary to unite outputs and...

When it comes to home theater, there are several types of cable that can be used to connect your components with your receiver. Two of the traditional options are optical cable and digital coax,...

When wiring your audio or video system, there will be occasions when you want to have a single source (cable) supplying two or more outlet devices. Rather than run two cables or modify your...

High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) cables are audio/video cables that transmit high-definition data in a digital format. HDMI cables connect media sources, such as cable boxes, DVD...

The world is a noisy place. Jet engines overhead, traffic blaring outside your window, dogs barking in the neighbor's yard---peace and quiet are hard to come by, especially in this modern world of...

If you have a home stereo and want to hear it in more than one room, you'll want a speaker selector. With a speaker selector, you can have music in many rooms for a party, or just one room for...

You can charge a 12-volt battery in several different ways. As long as your battery is in good working order and doesn't have a bad cell that would prevent it from holding a charge, you will be...

Super 8mm voice projectors were very popular in the 1970's. They were an improvement on the regular 8mm tapes that were made in the 1950's and 1960's. Many people still have old super 8mm tapes...

If you have ever been out and about looking for one of these cables you know how much money they can be. In fact they are about fifty and up just for a really short one. In this article I will...

There are two easy ways to use multiple iPods with a single computer. These two ways work the same with either Windows or Mac installations of iTunes. Here is how.

Surround-sound audio requires more than just two speakers to get it right. Several speakers are placed in various areas of a room to achieve a fully rounded sound quality. The audio connector is...

If you are setting up a home theater system, selecting the right audio cables for your task is perhaps the most important step between having a crackly sound that will annoy you to no end, or...

Demand for button cell batteries is growing as technological devices grow smaller. Even though demand for them is growing, button cell batteries are still expensive. You can get around this by...

This is a brief user's guide for the RiteAlarm clock, the only triple weekly alarm clock in the market, for weekdays, Saturday and Sunday.

The world of karaoke singing gets bigger every day, and that means the tools singers use to refine their skills, including karaoke machines, go in and out of style quickly. If a manufacturer stops...