Setting up a home theatre -dedicated or not- is a pretty big project. One that requires planning and researching, but also time for proper set-up. To get the most bang for your buck when assembling an audio or audio/video system, it’s important to make each piece of equipment and the room all work together as a team. Simply buying good pieces of equipment isn’t enough, and the chain is only as strong as its weakest link. While we understand that no situation is ideal, that rooms may have multiple uses and that compromises need to be made, some errors are just too sad for words.We sum up the things you want to do in order to avoid those common goofs so you can enjoy every moment of the precious pennies and time spent.

After a few weeks of serving our home theatre lovers, it’s time to indulge our friends, the Rapallo audiophiles.We thought we would have a chat about phono stages, after we called the Edwards Audio Apprentice MM phono stage Rapallo’s pick of the week. If you’re into vinyl, upgrading your phono stage can provide one of the most dramatic improvements to sound quality.

A few days ago, we were testing the Sony VPL-260ES 4K home theatre projector at 1,500 lumens. Compared to equal priced projectors boasting 2,500 lumens and knowing that some projectors go up to 5,000 lumens that doesn’t sound like a lot these days. Yet, when we looked at the calibrated pictures on the screen in our –admittedly- dark home theatre room, we wondered how come that a projector with 1,500 lumens stated on their specs appeared brighter that another projector boasting 2,000 lumens. Basically, that’s because one reading of lumens is not the same as another reading of lumens….Let us explain.