speakers

Home cinema: understanding the risks

Digital Living Eventually you'll have balanced the numerous satellite speakers on various occasional side tables, copies of the Concise Oxford Dictionary, and a vase from Heals you've never liked. Then you need seven speakers, not just five.

2 March 2006, 16:29

How to build your own home theatre

Digital Living Basic bookshelf speaker standsFirst, measure the footprint of your speakers, which is just the width and depth of the bottom of the speaker. Bookshelf speakers require stands to get them to the right height.

Tags: depth, paint, wall, benefits

27 June 2005, 12:18

Hacking Napster with Winamp

Digital Living After all, the only way to protect the music completely -- to make it truly impervious to some sort of real-time-recording hack -- would be to make the entire chain, from the online music store to your speakers, purely digital.

9 May 2005, 15:48

Sony PSP: Accessorise This

Digital Living Logitech PlayGear AmpWho wants to use the ultra-quiet speakers that come as standard on the PSP, when the huge amp package on the PlayGear will wake up everyone else on the bus to work? Using four batteries, the speakers boost the PSP's audio while...

6 September 2005, 8:45

Apple iPod Hi-Fi

Digital Living Apple's big white box combines two speakers, a sub, an amplifier, an iPod dock and a remote control. It turns your portable music player into a room-filling home stereo, but is it over priced, over hyped, overly heavy and over here?

31 March 2006, 16:43

How do I listen to the music on my PC in another room?

Digital Living Assuming you don't simply want to crank up the volume of your PC speakers, you're going to have to buy a wireless music streamer. I've got all my music ripped to my PC, which is in the study. Is there a way I can listen to the tunes stored on my...

21 February 2007, 16:44

What is Dolby TrueHD?

Digital Living You only get a mono rear-effects channel, a centre channel for dialogue, and the regular left and right stereo speakers. I've heard a lot about Dolby TrueHD recently. What is it, and is it worth a costly upgrade to my AV system to get the best out...

Tags: stereo, logic, channel, hdmi

11 July 2007, 15:15

Mobile phones to upgrade your life

Digital Living More importantly, it's not all looks and no brains, featuring a bright colour screen, a 3-megapixel camera, 3G connectivity, built-in stereo speakers, FM radio and a VGA camera for video calls. Meet the upgraders

Tags: jack, contract, sony ericsson, orange

28 November 2006, 16:06

Why is my best TV in my shed?

Digital Living We like technology that vanishes into its surroundings: bookcase speakers, remote controls in drawers, laptops on top of cupboards. I bought it on a credit card with the sweaty panic of someone who knows they'll be in a world of trouble when they...

6 May 2006, 8:00