Cramming a full-sized home theater system into a studio apartment or a cozy den usually ends in a cluttered mess of wires and overwhelming, boomy bass that bothers the neighbors. Most TV speakers are firing backward or downward, leaving you straining to hear dialogue while the background music blares. I spent three weeks testing twelve…
Living in an apartment means constantly balancing your desire for cinematic audio with the very real threat of a noise complaint from the neighbor in 4B. Most modern TVs produce thin, tinny sound that forces you to crank the volume just to understand dialogue, which inevitably leads to floor-shaking bass spikes during action scenes. I…
Most modern flat-screens possess the visual clarity of a high-end CMOS sensor but unfortunately come with the audio equivalent of a muffled internal microphone. In a small living room, you don’t have the luxury of bulky 7.1 setups or massive floor-standing speakers. You need precision and punch in a compact footprint. After testing dozens of…