Recent DIY Audio Articles

The Elan g! system programmed by AudioVideo Specialists for a 10,000-square-foot suburban Chicago home epitomizes the extent of a well-executed home control plan.

Audio Video Interiors (AVI) tuned up a rockin' JBL Synthesis speaker system that makes you feel every bone-crunching gridiron hit while an iSky fiber-optic starfield shines down from above.

Electronic House has an article about a pretty cool home theater located in the Cayman Islands. The theater room was built from the ground up and includes custom-designed theater seats and a balcony.

Once again we teamed up with MonoPrice to locate an articulating mount and successfully place a flat panel television on the wall. This time we positioned it in a corner-mounted location.

As many of you know, we are proud advocates for getting that flat panel off of your furniture and onto the wall. Otherwise, what's the point of having lightweight, flat televisions?

Where can you watch reruns of "The Partridge Family" in style? An article at CE Pro says In Danny Bonaduce's Hollywood-area home. But given the lame layout, and lack of tech - we'd have to disagree.

CEDIA is offering, in cooperation with National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH), a simple way for individuals to become educated and certified in dealing with lead paint issues according to the EPA

When your living quarters are as large an airport hangar, turning off the lights before bedtime can be exhausting. That’s why the owners tied them all to a single Apple-based control system.

The pictures say it all. Three 65-inch Panasonic plasma HDTVs, flush-mounted side-by-side, form a video wall that can display content from 18 different sources. Look even more closely, it gets better.

Punkass is how Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fans know him. He's also known as Dan Caldwell, co-founder and CEO of TapouT, a company embedded in the MMA industry and king of counterculture clothing.

The owners of this 22 x 18 theater had no intention of updating their 1970s-style basement rec room, but the contractors and interior designers hired for the job couldn't help but bring it up to date.

Nothing has come up in local conversations with friends and family as much as what it takes to mount a flat panel television over a fireplace. Be it plasma or LCD, it's a great, big, worthwhile job.

This is a basic guide for cleaning up an HDTV install by routing all of the connection cables between your Cable Box / Blu-ray Player to the display behind the drywall and out of sight.

At last count, the home had: two Microsoft Xbox 360s, two Sony PlayStation 3s, two Nintendo Wiis and one Nintendo Game Cube... oh, and a 103" Panasonic plasma display system to view them all on.

He calls himself Lord Dumpling, and his island "nation" has a zero-tolerance policy for incandescent lights. In fact, he claims to have the first fully self-powered nation. He is Dean Kamen, inventor.

A home theater can be a great escape, but how about escaping all the way to the planet Lantea, the fictional home of the TV series Stargate Atlantis? Jacob Yarmuth’s very cool theater does it.

Home theater designer Donny Hackett has always wanted to visit Paris but had never gone. So he decided to bring Paris here. The best attraction has got to be the whopping 154-inch screen...

Some guys love power tools. Some love cars. Some are happy with a comfy chair, a remote and something to nosh on. Then there are those who need to go above and beyond—to create a space that men love.

These homeowners had an oddly shaped room, one that wasn’t built to be a dedicated theater like a basement but an old entertainment system that really needed an upgrade complete with a projector.

In this final installment, we'll walk through several scenarios and talk about using the laptop as the New Home Theater PC to enable streaming content and fulfill the promises of the HTPC.

Control4 is probably most well known as the company that woke up the industry and said "Um, why are you guys killing yourselves over this horrendous AMX/Crestron programming language?"

The team at Ohio-based Audio Video Interiors made sure that this elegant open-floor great room itself was the center of attention. The artistic LED lighting on the ceiling and framing the centerpiece

I think it's pretty safe to say that the traditional Home Theater PC is dead... at least it's dead insofar as it has completely failed to reach the mass market in an accessible and easy-to-use way.

There is an old axiom I love to live by, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. Just because your speakers are old, doesn’t mean they can’t still perform as good and sometimes better than the models …

Unless you can build your home theater from scratch, it’s likely that you’ll have to jump a few hurdles to get a room into shape. Often, it’s a choice of the lesser of two evils. The owners of this …

Electronic House's 2009 Home of the Year sits among the Hollywood Hills, where the stars shine as brightly inside the homes as they do in the night sky. We’re familiar with some of the A-list …

When Mortensen first thought about creating his own home theater, he wasn’t working as a Christmas elf; he was a respiratory therapist, specializing in acute cardio-pulmonary support and trauma. A …

In this Cleveland-area loft, the more people, the bigger the party. And what a party it is: Along with the usual nightclub suspects, like a bar, billiards table and blaring music, the loft has a TV …