Issue # 002 - What's new
Date: 11th July 2004

The Practical HT Guide Update  brings you the latest additions in a series of informative home theater design articles, unbiased system reviews, practical guidelines and free advice.

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Welcome to the 2^nd edition of our Practical HT Guide Update. Its holiday time for many, yet we continued working on our website as we plan to take our holidays sometime in September.

Recent Additions:

As expressed in our first issue, during the last weeks, we have been busy working on developing and re-structuring our Home Theater Design section.

Recent additions under this category include:

• Home Theater room design basics (4):  Equipment Placement
  Have you ever thought that just as important as which equipment to buy, is deciding where to put them. The correct placement of system components is a major contributor towards that much desired magical experience in home entertainment. Find out more here.

• Home Theater Speaker Placement:
  Correct home theater speaker placement plays a critical role towards achieving that seamless ‘enveloping’ sound so important in the overall home theater experience.

A relatively detailed article that deals with the correct placement of speakers -including delay settings in surround systems and the different requirements in speaker placement between home theater and multi-channel music programs. Find out more here.

• A Guide to Home Theater Wiring – Selecting and Installing Speaker Wire
  Not even the best speakers will sound their best with poor quality speaker wire. A correct home theater wiring approach is important for your home theater sound. Poor workmanship, incorrect wire thickness,  and low quality speaker wire, will surely impact on your speaker performance. Find out more here.

During the last weeks, we have also manage to add an online store to our site - a Home Theater Store that has been setup in association with amazon.com. This means that as an associate of amazon, we are in a position to offer you the largest selection of home theater products on the web at all price brackets.  To visit our online store, click here.

As stated on our 'Home theater Store', we receive a small commission from Amazon.com - which will go to help support our web site - if you purchase products after you link to Amazon from our Home Theater Store.  If there is a product of interest, just click on the product's link for more information or to order. Amazon will then deliver the product to you through their excellent service. Thank you for your support.

We hope that  'YOU'  will enjoy and profit from these new additions to our site!

Articles in the Pipeline

At present we are at an advance stage of finalizing a set of articles on home theater cables and audio/video interconnects. Hopefully, these articles will be published on our site prior to the end of this month.

Home theater cables are an essential, yet often overlooked element in any home theater setup. No home theater system is complete without the home theater cables and speaker wire that connects the various home theater system components together. These articles will not only present the various audio and video interconnects in use today, but will also discuss in detail basic cable anatomy - including implications on cable quality and performance, and cable connection tips.

So stay tuned!

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